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So it seems I'm James Roger Varga (thanks tigerbalm immunity - nice username!)

The first part, the large square in the middle, is still commit free and will stay that way. The second part is more dangerous and best not attempted without solving the first part first.

@Osmium_Planet thanks! I prefer thinking houses to guessing houses.

I've evolved the plan again. Now, it's a little more dangerous outside, but still no commit gates anywhere.  Also, cutting anywhere will lock the door permanently.

$540, 0:0

Value down to 100 after some added power cables (1 brick will solve it, but that will soon change)

Funny, I've never had a problem with dropbox or .tga files.  What imaging software are you using?

Here's a .png version.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/234 … p00027.png

Down to zero as someone inadvertently pointed out another flaw with the design. Hard to exploit (luck on their part) but I'll have to change it, nonetheless.

My second house was this one:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/234 … p00027.tga

There were no commits until you cross the bridge to the second island, but most people didn't get that far.

Can you solve it?  I lost it due to a new part I was adding near the entrance. I'd changed the pitbulls to chihuahuas but put in real pits to test out some doggy death mechanics and I walked into a pit *sigh*

Haha, don't you just love little serendipities like that!

Mr Ames! You solved it, but I have no idea how... You didn't use the correct method and showed me a flaw with the design (to be corrected when I can get back into the house).

However, how did you know that one and a half full circuits of the house would open the door?  After going around, you waited (jiggled up and down) until the door opened.

Regardless, the insides are about to get a makeover (thanks to the 700 I just scored from another house)

Hmm... I need to be clear. Did you commit suicide?

Two people broke in. One walked into an electric floor after a look around inside, the other found the vault and killed themselves (just now).

Edit: I'm guessing you were the first. The second killed my wife.

Thanks. 3 foolish deaths and I've already enough to strengthen some walls! Same mechanics inside though, just harder to brute force (well, 2 saws now!).

I've made it safer overall: no walking fast into the pits now.

Initially, every house would look the same (top down view, small yard, fence) but as new additions are brought to the game, you could have the option to modify your house (cosmetic changes for a cost to show wealth).  Also, if (and it's a big if) floors, or an expanded house are added to the game, this would be shown with a different house in the street-view.
The idea of dim light to show houses being robbed and no lights to show 'robbable' houses is excellent!

How would new houses (new players) be added to the neighbourhood? What about players who die and restart? would they always start from a new plot on the edge of town? What would happen to old houses/plots?

I guess the answer would be to have a fourth house image of an empty plot (a run-down house, maybe) and every time a new player is added or a player restarts, they are randomly given a new plot.

So, to recap:
When you enter the street view you see your house (no name) and surrounding houses (perhaps 9 or 16 on screen at a time).  All houses look the same.  Each house is in one of four states:
Owner away (black windows)
Owner home (lights on)
House being burgled (dim lights on)
House vacant (police tape)

You could only enter (attempt to rob) houses with black windows.  Hovering the mouse over a house would give details of robberies/kills.
The screen would refresh/update if you went off screen then returned (the equivalent of page down/page up in the present 'which house should I rob' view).

You would have to physically walk from house to house along a street. Meeting a policeman during night (or a dog owner during the day?) would prove fatal due to a night curfew (or overly aggressive dog).