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Statements like this show why this is such a great game...

Exactly. It's probably also because since blueprints are available, fewer people actually generate tapes since deep scouting beyond eventually deadly traps becomes unneccessary.

However, it's hard to argue with server load concerns, so point taken.

One might add a choice of keeping or throwing away tapes with a max no of tapes that can be stored. If you can only keep, say, 10 tapes, you'll store the funniest or most interesting considering the flaws of your design and just throw out random deaths etc. after viewing once. Especially if more players should come to play the game, this could significantly reduce server load if top houses accumulate 100+ tapes when unregulated.

There are also two "woman by the sea" in the auction, by the same creator, one is more pixelated but they are the same thing virtually. Han van Megeeren was here...

Haha, I do really like the idea of the player turning into the son/daughter to finish daddy's business. I know it's not going to happen since it's basically extra lives, I just like the idea of having the little daughter go out on a robbery to avenge daddy.

Aaaaand it's gone... And my wife's dead too. Somebody here understands doggies better than I do. But the next version will not be as vulnerable.......

Awww, my beautiful art.

But then again, I REALLY wanted to get rid of an ugly thing I burgled of somebody that kept popping up at the fourth row. So now I don't need to look at that thing and don't have to die and rebuild all just for that. Given this,I have to say: Thanks!

Hehe, I robbed that house without realising what it was supposed to be. Crazy stuff, that. I'm at the sticky switches point.

One thing I realised, though: With the more complex electronics, the map soon becomes too small to accomodate an 8-thick safe, the electronics and family protection.

Sounds like a good idea. At the moment,there is a flood of paintings again, looks like Robin Hood was here. They're at about 140ish if I'm not mistaken.

I see the UI concerns. As I said, trading is unnecessary I guess. However, something along the lines of "pick four" could be realised without too much complexity. (So if you rob somebody for one painting and already own 4, you would have to chose 4 to go on with and the other one would go up for auction.) Or you could make it 5 so your tweaking hasn't been in vain.

But then again, I don't have to do the programming so I see your point. Upping the starting price would definitely make sense.

One might also consider having a "lowest bid" for some of the paintings, so that a few paintings never drop below 10000, 1000, 100 etc. But that's just another suggestion to add a more precious feel to them.

Great update - thanks a lot!!

Just one more question: Do you plan on adding a notice on broken walls etc.? Could just be an asterisk in the blueprint. (Since changed dog locations are noted, it would make lots of sense that those things done by burglars would also show up in the map room of the local robbers guild, probably reported by the cooperative perpetrators.)

Otherwise a quick and easy way to effectively render maps useless by broken elements would spread quickly imho. (I tried having random people break stuff for me and it's remarkably easy.)

EDIT: my bad, just realised that the status of walls does show up in the footnote text, so once one figures out something can't be right, one can confirm by hovering the tiles.

It doesn't take much work to get some nice broken walls: I just put my safe at the visible end of a long corridor one had to walk around. Easily enough, the wall was cut through after 5 minutes. I added some other stuff and, again, it was cut through. Its especially easy at this point in time where there is almost no money in the game. There were only a few hundred $ in the safe.

Essentially, robbers preferred to use a 20$ saw to running for 20 secs. I could now use those nice broken walls to design a trick entry trap that fries you while you think you're safe and vice versa.

Knowing this, maps are useless - we'll just get a new level of dickish designs, where the top houses are protected by broken traps and only cheating helps.

I think, some kind of info on if an element is broken is essential. It would still leave some guessing game if the house is broken by design or by accident, but that's a nice feature after all.

Now that is one neat little permanent switch - I like!

v6 looks very nice - thanks for all the work put in Mr Rohrer!!

Family seems to be protectable via a simple setup like this, up against the upper wall in a corner, p being pitbulls 8 and the funnelish part being 8 deep:

              *  f  *
*            *  f  *
*            *  f  *
* pppppppp     *
************

writing this, I realise that the lower right corner is the weakness, it would have to be 8x8 filled with 9 pitbulls. But again, an acceptably cheap way to fully protect the family, especially if one side of the setup is already taken care of by other stuff.

Sadly, right now, there is a big cashflow problem in the game - only four houses carry more than petty cash and all appear to be broken. And even 6000 is too little cash to do anything other than frying floor mysteries. I'd love to do houses one can actually work around in but the ingame cash doesn't allow for that atm.