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You give it away already? I can look at your map. I figured out your front even before you posted it . I like sight changes, they are an obscure thing. My hint of how to solve it came when I got to your double dog dance. Only seeing 1 of them meant you expected me to travel all the way down first. I can check the rest of it though.

If you are gonna ask for that, you might as well ask for it all . (full rotation on other electric tiles).
There's plenty of time's I wished voltage triggered switches were not locked into only a northern feed.

shlam16:
http://castledraft.com/editor/MQl4ps
Here's a simple example of where a regular button won't work.

JoyOfTrapping
Your welcome. Although, no research background. Just an experienced programmer who loves games.

Lord0fHam
Whether you have one person with two accounts or two people working together the advantages are just unavoidable. It offers big advantages to weaker and stronger players.  I think the current mitigation isn't enough yet. We have yet to see the damage it can create in the hands of skilled players (or player), which is why I can still play. However, the possibility exists which I'll explain below.

eppfel
I think you are assuming you'd get to see that wealth before you get wrecked.

Imagine this:
Some friends work together or one person has multiple accounts, it doesn't matter. Over some time (depends on the amount of people/accounts), they build a huge bounty on just 1 account (could be more than one but it doesn't matter). You can't take this from them. You can rob them blind, but they can just keep feeding him more and more clubs to kill off families. At some point, that bounty is delivered. And they take the new found wealth, distribute it across multiple accounts and collectively use it to wreck every house before you can get your multiple accounts or friends to generate enough income to fight back. The possibility is scary, isn't it?

Is being able to clean the house list game breaking? Depends on the game. In a game where you are supposed to be in fear of something like that happening, I'm not so sure. But there's no need keep waiting for evidence that the possibility exists.

I'm not sure on the fix or if it should be. A lower max bounty would go a long way. Removing bounty reward increases for houses valued at 2k or less would help too. However, I'm not sure how that would change game incentives for robbery. And it still doesn't stop a team from crowd-sourcing a map to just break you.

Actually the cats in pits were courtesy of a previous robber breaking my vault. He gave me an idea to set up all my pits with cats and let people find my vault (most of my money in my backpack and wife). Wife gave me enough to build up that first time. I had a ton of cats you had to walk through, and bam theres the vault. You lock in the changes, I come back and restore my house to normal (hordes of pitbulls hidden away come back).

I was gonna release the map after you broke it. However, since I died with it. It's still good. Might rebuild it at a later date. I'm sad you didn't get to see my new front. Same puzzle, new choices. I had been wanting to make this final edit for a long time, but the cost to change would take me from the front page, so I was waiting for more visitors. After blowing money on your vault attempt it didn't matter.

And don't worry, I won't share the map I drew of your place unless someone offers me $100k to do so. I doubt that's gonna happen.

I know your earlier visits were just painting checks.

The thing about my place was that there were multiple intended routes. I had 6 locations for the vault to sit and used to rotate them but people didn't get far enough. Depending on the vault location, you have to take a specific route which was woven into the other routes. Although, taking a specific route in a certain direction locked other things out.

Your beginning trap looked fun, I'd have to review how it worked.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on my place.

And... dead. One slip to the left incorrectly.

Sorry to see you go StefanLindskog. However, I'm not sure on your "trend." It could happen, or it could not. The player base feels small already. As far as buying more accounts, I want to point out that using multiple accounts doesn't require you to buy more accounts (if you can make friends).

Also, more money and resources is always going to be an advantage in LIFE. It affords more time to dedicate, better coaches, more tools, etc. But don't let that stop you from getting what YOU want from the game. I understand if what you wanted from this game isn't here anymore. Hopefully there will be a mod that provides it. I still have yet to try iceman's mod.

My house will probably go down soon, W. B. Tedder is visiting right now, and I've got my next design waiting to be built. It's a house with different puzzle sections which will let you out after each section if you feel like leaving. Of course you can still die during the solving, but I was trying to find a way to build a house in this brute force world that can still present the puzzles I want to those venturing tool-less thefts, and I think I found a happy medium. I'll try to invite you when that happens.

Also, if you do decide to come back, I would recommend working on your robbery skills more. Spend your previous life scouting (w/out dying) for a new house. You'll be able to visit in your second life w/ the proper tools. You'll find that it's not too hard to jump start you income, you'll eventually learn which houses to hit and which to avoid. Take care.

p.s. Let me know if you read this. if not I'll send you an email later.

I don't know who has 3 accounts. But there's there's nothing stopping someone with 2 accounts to team up with a person with 1 account to do the same thing and split the difference. The beginning of my post states that it doesn't matter if it's one person, or multiple people colluding.

I'd have to say that less skill is required proportional to more money that you can easily get. In any case it'll still be fun watching that tape where someone uses $5000 worth of tools to break a $300 trap.

Offering my thoughts against this idea.

You can check your recorded games for maps.
Not everyone will take the time to record. And also not everyone will record perfectly. Leading to deathly mistakes.

Auto-mapping during the robbery takes away the time pressure during a robbery. Do you spend more time mapping? Or just assume you remember the layout?

First off, you need complete knowledge on cat movement.
In order to discover the first part safely, you'll need two bricks minimum to open the east door and north door. This will allow you to see the cat blocking the dog.
Without tools, you'll be able to see two trapdoors and work out the first trapdoor with scouting.

The first trapdoor is harder in my opinion, although you do get to scout it for free.
The two buttons on top have to be handled by the cats. The rest is pressed by the dog.
You have to position the cats in a way that as you move right, they leave both buttons in the ON position.
There's probably multiple ways of doing this, but I'm not sure.
The dog must be able to follow you to the right to press the rest of the buttons.
Keep 2 tiles distance by dancing the first button (on then off) to make sure he doesn't fry you on the electric floor.

One more brick is needed figure out how to power the second trapdoor.
Brick the cat in front of the wooden door to lock in the dog near you.
Dance the far dog stuck so you can explore the right and see the cat to reveal its timing.
You may have to invest in more bricks to be sure down or right movement doesn't change the timing.
The second trapdoor turns on twice by the cat.
After seeing the cat, the trapdoor is on at step 4 and 6.
I timed the second trapdoor to be passed on step 6.
This gives you time to dance the dog for the first trapdoor after seeing the cat.

Step list provided below (U - up, R - right, L - left, D - down).
1. Start by opening the south door then east door then north door.
R R D D D D R R U

2. Begin the dance to get the top two buttons setup with cats and the dog in position to follow.
D U D U R L D L R U

3. Sight the cat on the right and the space the dog for the first trapdoor. The second one will be on timing.
R R U R L R R R R R

Edit: Just realized you can't scout it for free at all. The sight of the dogs makes two doors into liabilities. Left the text but showed they are incorrect.

That was Noonan

http://thecastledoctrine.net/forums/vie … d=2425&p=2

Edit: Well, a little late I guess. The real Noonan showed up to tell you.

Ah, I wonder who he ended up robbing. Maybe it was a chain robber working his way to the top. Since I'm not sure he could get to $120K with one score.

After you scouted me, I've considered two options. Enjoy some time buying paintings and dropping my value, or spend my savings trying to find your vault and remove you as a threat.

Not sure what I'll do, half of me wants to see the tape of you robbing me, but with that much money, and your skill, I'm sure it'll just be visit/revisit until success.

Anyway, enjoy your monetary leverage

Edit: Either your editing or someone is putting some serious time into robbing you. I haven't seen your house for awhile. And your paintings are not on the auction house.

Just some suggestion on bounties, but won't be visiting this thread again.

Possible code change that would make it harder:
Only family members killed in a house with at least $4k value will add to a robber's bounty.
Thematic justification: (sad parallel), poor people can't afford to offer incentives for revenge.

Community change that would make it harder:
Start protecting your families, and clubbing easy to find families.