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Was this a photo-shopped screenshot, or did you actually get the list bigger? If so, can you post the modified source? I'm too lazy to actually muck around with the code, but really, really like this idea.

That's the point - smart dog placement by the trap builder makes some dogs killable only by guns.

Often its surprising the beating a relatively cheap house can withstand - however, when you really have time for your house value to skyrocket, things can go bad quick. Once, a death trap I built had about 4K when I logged off, with a simple trap system. I came back to find that, overnight, I had gotten two bounties of over 30K each, plus lots more cheap bounties and tools. The guy who robbed me and killed my wife got 100K for his efforts, coming off at a profit. He used like 10K of tools to break my place; that was more than the cost of the house itself.

So there is a bit of luck there, but isn't it that way with every way to win in this game? Personally, I love chain robbing, and find it one of the most fun ways to play; but its just so risky that I'll sometimes just try building instead.

I've built at the start, only did a couple small robberies, and ended up reaching 250K with three paintings. So it is possible, if you know how to build.

The tip is: use hidden commit gates and deathtraps. Something like this will get a lot of bounties from low-level robbers looking for some quick cash. They don't know how dangerous it really is, and often saunter in without tools. As bounties pour in, your house value rises, and you can either wait for a big bounty to make some major improvements, or slowly upgrade as you go along.

No, Jason is everybody on the forums, and in game for that matter. It's all just Jason, playing against himself.

This would take so much trouble to do by yourself. Every time you went out robbing, you would have to use your alt to enter your house, loiter there until you finish your robbery, then have the alt leave. If you die during the robbery, you have the alt take your money, then rob them (hoping that nobody else does). It really is a crazy exploit, but the fact that nobody has ever pulled it off until now, and nobody has ever done it alone, means that it probably won't have a really big impact anyway.

Here's a simple trick house I've been using. It's really secure and keeps the robbers out, plus keeps my family safe. With 9 different failsafes, it's a hard nut to crack, unless you know what you're doing really well. I was hoping to extend it with a second trap but I died.

http://castledraft.com/editor/5Zwmlx

One thing that I'm surprised we haven't yet seen is a house that combines pets, buttons, and maybe powered doors with clocks to prevent you from walking back and forth and figuring out the clock cycle. I was considering building a house this coming weekend where the clock only begins once a door locks behind you, preventing the back and forth tricks to figure out the cycle. That would essentially force people to guess and die - but also mean that they went in with full knowledge of their death by locking themselves in a corridor of pits behind a door.

Literally 90% of people would. If I see a cat, I'm either following it or turning back, no matter what.

As somebody who's been playing for so long, I would say that I normally do a slow build by instinct. I've tried chain robbing, and did pretty well at it, but it just isn't my natural playstyle. I usually only try a chain robbery when I have plans for building a house that needs a crazy amount of cash to build and can't be built over time. Also, with the packed weekly schedule I have, a slow build style is more fun by allowing my house to get money throughout the day from bounties, then upgrading bit by bit in the evening when I can play.

This seems like it would work! Of course, that's assuming that the "carried vault contents" can be utilized while the player is offline, and that its use in this manner doesn't mess anything up. For example, if somebody robs you with excess tools, then you rob a house, that would need to contain both the money you robbed plus dropped tools. If that works properly, it should be fine.

However, as jere said, this would just make people absolutely destroy houses if possible, using all of their tools to before reaching the vault, making it even harder for somebody to rebuild; more of their house would be destroyed and they would still have the same amount to spend fixing it.

If tools were left upon fleeing, the "Scary Turtle" would become a viable option again. Instead of building the clever deathtraps that we build currently, people would just try build the scariest looking stuff they could and get tools from robbers just leaving after seeing the first part of the trap.

I think that tool transfer on vault reach would just cause people to break through your house once with lots of tools, leave the extra, then come back again to pick them up. It would allow for people to bring ridiculous amounts of tools to any house, decimate their way to the vault, then come back to reclaim any tools they didn't use! Under the current system, bringing too many tools means that you lost the ones you don't use; thus, there is an incentive to use the minimum amount of tools for a robbery (until you get up to the ultra-rich, where you just destroy houses to eliminate the threat of the same happening to you.) And it usually works; lower houses are rarely, if ever, robbed with a massive amount of tools. If they were, the game would get even harder on new players and easier for the veterans.