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I accidentally idled too long while trying to take pictures of my house, and I ended up getting kicked out of my house. Then before I get back, I get robbed for $60,000. The guy came in with like 45 sleeping pills, 8 clubs, 20 water bottles, guns, torches, and all kinds of things. It was really lame to see someone just buy their way into my safe.

Damn you for taking my chance at getting any money David Travis Lopez! I hope you lose your house in a test.

He stole my favorite painting too...

Exactly, but you've already walked past the traps that lock you in, and even though you know you made the mistake, there is no undo button and you lose it all.

This would be perfect. A second button that we could use to test the house, and press a button while testing at any time to return to the editor. That way you could check your traps and things to make sure they work the way you want, and then you could safely return without losing anything after you prove that your traps are effective.

Both these posts have communicated pretty well how a lot of us feel I think. You get any money at all and if you're not behind a bit-lock or something seriously clever then you get it all nabbed away pretty fast. The whole [   0       0   ] thing just screams ROB ME!

Huh, so then how did the guy manage to get into my house without using the right combination? I don't really understand how it's possible because if I tried to re-create exactly what he did, I would have been trapped inside and died. :\

I'm sorry to hear about that. I too have lost at least 4 characters where I was trying to get back into my house and I accidentally went the wrong direction or they released dogs into an area that was not previously possible. Or they disabled floors that were supposed to be on because they turned off power thinking it would free up an entryway, but it only made it more impossible. I think the whole problem comes into the fact that there is no chance for you to try and get in if you make ANY mistake WHATSOEVER. Which is usually okay, but when you accidentally add power to an area or lose power in an area and your expected mental picture doesn't line up with what's happening, you might lose it all if you made a mistake and locked yourself inside because it used to work and doesn't anymore.

Needless to say, you lose a lot of characters while testing, but it's these mistakes you make that help you learn a lot. After you try so hard and end up failing you can get pretty angry. But in the end, you'll realize it's all re-attainable. So although it sucks right, you can probably get it back at some point. (Assuming it's not behind a bit-lock, then only those who are lucky and the lame cheaters are getting those)

I've seen a guy worth 70,000 and had 0 attempts, 0 deaths. I immediately went to it and I noticed it was a safe and wife, but I had no crowbar. So I left immediately, and came back with a crowbar and I was lucky enough to still be the first guy to try again. So I clubbed his wife, made $0, and I got 149 guns and like 80 ladders. I sold 100 guns and had like $30,000 and I managed to re-make the base I had lost like 45 minutes before and bought back most of the paintings I had, plus a few more. I have no idea how that guy had those items or why he had no defense but it sure helped me, haha. Keep in mind the game is in alpha right now so nothing is final.

What I hope happens is that we are given at least 1 grace life while testing per successful completion (with a max of 1 or 2 or something) and you aren't guaranteed to lose everything if you messed up entering your code because your keyboard stuck and went twice in one direction instead of once, you accidentally input the wrong combination for something but you locked yourself inside a cage, and etc: I understand the hardcore concept but I feel like sometimes when you have a room that people can use 8 items to get out of, but you get 0 to try, it just isn't fair. They can easily come in and out to try it with only a couple items while you would have died every time you made any mistake at all. You know just how hard it is sometimes to get to the exit, while they can just saw, weld, and put a ladder over a couple things sometimes and just get to the exit within a couple steps if they are lucky.

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Hahaha, after writing this I logged into my house and tried to get into my house because someone tried to get in and it was different. So I tried getting in and before I could even get past my pads it killed me so I died while testing it. A perfect example, I couldn't have gotten in if I wanted to, nor could anyone else. The only way to have won would have been to not log in I guess?

Hahaha, yeah I've been the victim of this one myself. Before I'd spent a lot of time trying to raid pitbull infested houses, I didn't realize I would wake the pitbull up if I tried to walk around it. The sleeping pills seem kinda worthless when for $12 more you can get a crowbar that will do twice the job the pill does.

This!

Made this house V  (It's small because I don't want you copying it or finding out how to get through it if I re-make it in the future. ;)

Made a giant house, super hard to get into. I knew the way in and it had multiple different combo locks you had to press in/out and if you accidentally pressed the wrong buttons you locked an extra set of doors guarding the combo's. And I accidentally went up at one part instead of down because I forgot how much I had added in the last bit.

And then POOF, it's all gone. :V

I just lost everything I had, I am so pissed and bummed! By the way, when you lost a bunch to a server error, was it due to your house having an error loading? I just had an error loading my $50,000 and $30,000 house that was full of all these paintings, and it deleted everything and put me in a default empty house with 2k. So damn pissed, I lost everything i had and my giant base too. After losing everything like this I'm probably going to be taking a break from castle doctrine for a while now. I tried so hard to get it all and to have it all cheated away from me due to server error is really sad.I like the thought of permadeath, but when my shit gets deleted when it's not my fault it's not fun, or cool. And it really makes me not even want to play.

What I should have because it went on auction when it bugged and deleted my stuff:

What I lost in the bug and error while loading my house (All of these paintings are mine, and when I had an error loading my house it shipped them all into the auctions like I had actually died):

This happened after I tried robbing someone, when I successfully robbed them and it tried to load my house, it gave me a "House load error" and it deleted everything, loading the default house as if I never even had any status or prestige. Plus it deleted the 50 recordings or so that I had. T_T

What I have now:

So now that I've lost everything for absolutely no reason, I think I'll be taking a break. I hope you look into these issues Jason because the thought of losing EVERYTHING when you don't even make a mistake is mind-blowingly lame. I didn't even get the chance to die in someones house. I will come back if you manage to restore my stuff, but if not then you probably wont see me for a while.
(And I have a full-size picture of my exact house before it was deleted if you need it to prove it was mine.)

Agreed, thanks for making the game (and the forums) Jason.

I got lucky guessing a combination in a bit lock and got all their paintings, only to have a cheater take them all away.

James Kyle Gagne stole 17870 from me and a ton of paintings. He walked in, pressed every key in my 6-bit combo lock, so the exit should have been closed because he hit like 5 wrong buttons. However, the exit was actually open so he just walked in and stole it. I'm guessing it was a cheat or something so if Jason looked it up I would be stoked. I saw my paintings go up in auction an hour later too.