The Castle Doctrine Forums

how is that house possible without tools?

http://castlefortify.com/c/181e88f

there is most likely a cat at the bottom of the first tunnel, the cat will scamper off once it sees you. you will have to perform a traditional rain dance in order for the spirits to guide you across the bridge.

i think a sandbox is on the way~

30 ladders is not actually that expensive to rob! victor, now, that house will take a lot of ladders, bombs, blowtorches or whatever is in those walls. and with victor lies my argument against a broken house being interesting..

victor has $70,000 or whatever, but it is going to cost, what, $10, $20, $30, $40,000 in tools to rob? yes, profitable. but which part of that is interesting, really?
cracking codes feels very rewarding, but brute forcing to a vault is not so much. and when the house is broken, brute forcing is the only option really.

of course, it is my personal opinion that it isn't interesting. maybe others think it is. personally i miss the blueprint houses, but i think i might be in the minority.

right now, even to rob a relatively poor house ($3000 or so) you need to spend quite a lot in tools, otherwise you risk getting boned by this grid/trapdoor/button combo everyone is using, with dog chases. so, you know, fortune favours the bold.. but you don't want to be too bold for $3000.
and it seems any house that is worth being a bit bold in, is just a magical dance that goes back to my point above, spend large sum of money scouting for parts of the code, or just spend a larger sum of money and break it.

i'm going to go and eat a large meal and then try to make a new house.

i don't think so, could have just returned to rebuild

quick explanation as to why tools will probably never be limited again:
a while ago there was a limit of 8 tools, maximum. this simply meant that every house would have a wall 9 tiles thick, impenetrable.

(almost) any limit on tools is likely to reintroduce these impenetrable fortresses. or fortressi. like fungi. fungal fortresses. fortressal fungi. wait what was i talking about

ahh colorfusion thank you, as i read number two i was thinking .. wait, i can't even remember why tool losing was added to the game..

tools vanishing into the air was added a few versions after unlimited backpack was added. it was definitely a good change, but indeed.. i have lost many thousands of dollars of tools because i clicked the wrong house, or simply picked a house at random that my toolset was useless for.

this article is a much better response to the critics than some of the replies i've seen on twitter simply telling people to fuck off!

i wonder how many of these critics have actually contacted jason personally, because posting wildly on the internet without talking to someone (or indeed, without even experiencing the game first-hand) is a bit silly.

i hate to come and ruin the party, but this happened today..

http://i.imgur.com/uzShMOE.png
http://i.imgur.com/IcyuQFi.png

upon testing it seems that the pitbull will not move from that spot (unless you step next to him again), but i have observed dogs in the wild keeping clear of the whole 8 tiles surrounding a dead dog. pit/trapdoor a diagonal exception?

edit: ahh this must have been part of the change yesterday, dogges in the wild are indeed stepping into the diagonal spaces now! tricky

way back in v5 i was using a single concrete block behind a wall/door as a 'fake vault' when my houses consisted of mostly 'guess the right tunnel' one-way valve kind of things.

it seemed to definitely lure people into that specific tunnel over all the others.. of course with the suicide-spam available at the time it wasn't really that viable as people would just come back in immediately and ignore the decoy.

might have to wangle some just out of sight single concrete blocks into my new houses definitely like the idea of decoy vaults.

welcome to the game

to be a better writer, apparently you have to read a lot. i think this is a good kind of analogy to apply to this game - to be a better ..house defenderer, you have to break and enter a lot!
it isn't just copying other people's ideas, often you'll have a sudden burst of inspiration when you find yourself in a sticky situation or some such.

best family defence i have seen lately involves dogs, cats and pits, making heavy use of the new animal movement rules.

i think jason already mentioned in another thread (that i am too lazy to dig up) he wants to avoid right clicking. i forget why. do mac's still only have one button?

hmm.. maybe it was the middle button he wanted to avoid.. d'oh!

either way, yes! the eye-dropper was a great accidental find i found a few versions ago while alt-clicking. very, very useful!

we need a little 'tips and tricks' thread to get stickied with this kind of info! even if it just links to the wiki

for a little easier level editing you can use castlefortify or such

under some circumstances it does seem possible to get dogs to come close to their fallen comrades