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i came back from being afk for a few hours and tried to enter my house, crashing the game.

not bothered if it has lost my house, but maybe worthy of reporting as a bug? because that doesn't seem like an intended feature

edit: oh okay, there wasn't a house reset. now i am quite sad i lost my house

the left side was broken due to a power leak

but there isn't really anyone to victimise at all right now!

i think i have leif half-figured out. clarence is just.. not even going to bother, this house is worse than adrian ernest pounds.
i could walk in and grab jeffrey's money because.. well, i know who it is and we talked about it as an explanation of voltage switches, etc.

and then the rest are broken one-time houses. robert daivd bowles was solved with two blowtorches. below him is $7 or less.

earning wages in robbed houses would be nice, more money in the game is not a bad thing. but if they are one-time it doesn't help anyone but the owner, and if they are really easy 'walk to the vault' they don't help new players learn.

how do we entice people to come and play this wonderful game?

thank you for trying~~

revealed to me some wiring issues that i had to fix~!

but it would be the ~only~ strategy. i feel like it might drive more people away, instead of 'make a really hard house and evolve it when someone finally does figure it out' it'd be more 'make a really hard house and then kill everyone else and keep killing them and hope the new starting cash isn't enough to just waltz through my $100,000 house'

still, i don't know what the new tool prices will be. i don't know what the new starting money will be. i don't know if building materials will cost the same. the only thing i know for certain about v9 is that wire cutters will finally counter grids that are off.

i definitely look forward to it and i hope i am proved wrong and it pushes the game into a state with more than 3 houses to look at. but i do fear the idea of rich players being able to shout 'SWAP PLACES!!!' and kind of 'forcing' everyone to suicide and start again. don't forget to fill your backpack before you go to work, i guess?

an ability to export/import your building code from the building screen would be nice, by the way!

oh yes, sorry!

i am still sceptical about the whole increased/delimited backpack thing. it would seem in the best interest of the rich to spend $10,000 to ensure that everyone else has $0 so they can't afford tools to just smash through the riches layers of defence.

however, i am very eager to see it!

made a house here but there is nobody to rob

vision centred on the player constantly gives a bit of a 'jerky disorientating' feel to me usually, but i'd be willing to see how it goes!

the houses that right now that are just single lines of dance-grid defence would be done away with the wire cutter change. you could still have dance-grids that CAN'T be cut, ie: grid routes power to some vital trapdoors later, but it would help in taking away a fair chunk of 'wiring real estate,' which would naturally limit complexity.. i think.

at any rate, i'd like to see the 'wire cutters can cut un-powered grids' change BEFORE any kind of change to backpack limitations or tools with multiple uses. maybe it can be quickly thrown in as v8.5 and see how it steers house design for a week or two?
we definitely have some brilliant house builders who are settling for these super complex dancing / animal herding single-row grid defence systems. would be nice to see what they can come up with against the current 8 tool limit!

herding animals you can't see directly is definitely not that fun as a robber. i personally find taking the blueprints into mspaint and drawing all over them to solve the puzzle (or at least try to!) to be quite fun, but i can definitely understand how grabbing a bunch of screenshots / searching a log for a string of code and using third party software to doodle all over it might not be everyone's idea of fun.

i guess pouring over blueprints is a bit more casino heist than opportunity burglary..

i think perhaps rather than delimiting the backpack/items, perhaps tools that break after x uses?

i feel like unlimited (or very large numbers of items) will lead to a kind of 'what's the point in building anything really at all if the person invading me is going to be able to counter anything i can throw at them with their x of each item' mentality. although, without seeing it happen it is just idle speculation. someone probably will indeed find a way to get past it!

large numbers of tools and the current pathing the family need to escape (can't walk over wires, for example) might return the family to a place of just putting them at the front door and hoping they get killed off quickly so you can just not have to think about leaving that path and 'wasting' those tiles.
it doesn't follow the games roots of 'i must protect my family!' but you know, i have definitely heard of real stories of people abandoning their family to protect their riches.

i'll agree that a completely unobtainable family (as we have now, slap them behind x pit bulls and walls with a one-time robbable) is not fun, but if you're confident you can curb the one-time haus issue then the family could be naturally picked off through repeated vault visits.

ps. if blueprints are removed again, i presume you'll be disabling the recordedgame logs that we get?

edit: ooh i missed a bunch of page one somehow!

maybe i am just a psychopath.. but i spent a good $1200 to kill someone's wife and get $5 an hour or so ago. although there isn't much to do right now but sit in my mspaint blueprint collage and draw lines on it while wondering where the cats are going to run if i move to this next tile..

as jason said, i find it to be very true that the self-test is a large part of the castle doctrine experience. even when you have tested your house a hundred times before and you are just patching up a hole in the wall, the self-test is always tense.

it was very frustrating at the start. but you learned. i feel like i learned a lot quicker because of how harsh the price of a mistake was! after a week or so dying on a self-test became more of a 'well if you don't laugh you'll just feel bad' kind of acceptance of the reality of your mistake. two hours planning out how to best spend your winnings, and then you forgot to push that button just before dashing through the powered door which has sealed you into what you just realised will be your tomb. your own home has swallowed you up because you forgot to push the button that secures the dogs in their kennels..

komm, süßer tod..

and then on the flip-side, overwhelmingly awesome senses of joy and relief when you do manage to get through your deadly traps alive

time to make the disco lights green!

could a solution to 2 simply be to throw the painting in the street? i've seen people do it with paintings before. no need to 'auction it off' or 'resell.' just kick it to the curb, baby!

that seems fair enough

is there a way to un-ignore a house?