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i made a simple 'guess which way or i hope you brought a lot of expensive water' house and i think someone has managed even then to park a dog on my front door step .____.

bad craftmanship!

the 5 minute timer kills my ability to very quickly build up $80,000 to make a ridiculous test house

5 minute timer makes it hard to build anything just to test what people can break

*sweeps $70,000 design under rug*

as i said before (and in my opinion, it is what actually ended up happening) increasing the tool cost just secures the place of the rich.
i don't know what to do about tool prices though. a backpack limit doesn't work. but too cheap and the starter houses run riot..

not sure about this power not passing through trapdoors, makes them very.. hmm. well, without electric walls it makes them a bit sad. i'll log in in a minute and hope to see some houses v16 built

some glaringly obvious things were missing.. ahem, like.. pits under crippled animals.. grids under fried animals.

i take full responsibility and hide in a corner shamefully

i am getting carried away with this tileset. i added a bunch and fixed a bunch. left out stuff like fried pitbull on top of a cut/watered grid.. even though..               .. ahhh no i must stop *runs away to have lunch*
tis up to ukukukukuko what he wants to add to the site though

hmm.. i imagine if you put a ladder over a dog in a pit the ladder is on top of the dog graphic... aahhhhhhhhhhhh

for $200 i don't think these trapdoors are the kind that lock in place! the powered doors don't even have proper locking mechanisms and can be opened with a crowbar
(although if the code allows for it, these more expensive 'locking' trapdoors might be a nice addition. although you can achieve a similar effect with some fancy wiring, but they can't be part of another circuit if you want grids in there. so. hmm. this parenthesis is going on too long)*

i think a range on power sources would be too hard to indicate (a transparent underlay seems a gaming standard, but might look 'messy') and a limit on number of devices powered would just mean placing 4 power sources next to each other.

hmmm... it is tricky.

*example, i guess something like this http://castledraft.com/editor/g5Fxx4 [uuh obviously i didn't check the wiring and the lights can be replaced with some fancy logic. probably a lot of that wiring needs to change as i originally had DOORS in mind and then realised no power through walls and had to change all the doors to other things. so um. yeah, you get the idea though!]
bit of a double barrelled combo lock/mystery dance thing.. guess if animal behaviour changes i can remove the dog and add a person and a horde of dogges to hide/defend logic from anyone without 500 guns or some clever wrangling..

uuuuuuuuuuuuum. lets get some changes live so i can build something fun for real

one powered tile with no power through walls.. scary

defaulting the settings to windowed mode might help!
maybe it is just me, but i really don't know anyone who plays any game in true fullscreen.. unless they are on a laptop with a tiny resolution and sad 3 year old integrated graphics..

but anyway, i think the castle doctrine looks quite good in a 1024x768 window!

thanks to it being the 90s, we are proud to live in an age where scent is visible not just to dogges, but to human-beans as well!

scent value is visually determined by number of 'stink lines' present in a tile.

oh i just had a moment of inspiration reading the word 'electronics' and thinking back to blue prints..

1991.. hackers! well okay hackers was apparently 1995, but there were still lots of prevalent hackers in 1991! how about a very expensive tool ($2000?) that you can use on some/any electronic tiles that gives you an electronic diagram of the house..

sat here for a bit after typing that thinking of ways to make it not so powerful, like limiting the view distance.. reducing the price and needing to place 5 or 6 of them around the map to get the whole picture.. but getting to more than one electronic piece in a different part of a house you might as well just classically brute-force it ._.

i don't think this would turn the game into a blueprint puzzle-game again, but it would perhaps encourage people not to have their entire house on just one electric circuit, which then would allow people to solve parts of houses at a time with this expensive tool

even more, it might encourage people away from super-electronics and bring back a few dog-maze things