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Personally I would love the electronics to evolve a bit, adding new possibilities for minimizing circuits and making them far complicated and longer (like increasing the setting for max size for loops etc..), but as it is now, its a lot to learn for new players and there are sooo many things you can do that can be extremely complicated. I doubt this side of things would be changed, it would be nice tho.

Yea I had no biggie dying even tho I was pretty proud at hitting almost 100k.. Now its fun time with electrics and clock timings an stuff. Was a little gutted you didn't play with the finale, you just kinda smashed through it. Ahh well back to those frustratingly hard electronic timing circuits (spent a cple hours so far on them).

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Wait what? that says 270k?

OK well I've been trying to follow this and it doesn't seem to quite add up like I expected so I thought well I'm missing something so I'll replicate what's pictured and then I should be able to follow it.
So I made a copy of Hippasus's post "....repeating circuit with period 8...."
It did nothing. Guess I'm either still not following something or maybe there was a mistake it in somewhere.
I'm trying to make a repeating circuit that would flash on and off with each step. Is that possible?

The final part was a combination lock. If you pick the right button it opens all teh doors and turns off the electric plates between the doors. Any other button breaks the circuit so the correct button cant open the doors and then it turns on the mass pathway of electric floors.

Odd. You are talking about the initial purchase not the steam one I guess.

Lol yea. Overnight while I'm asleep I get about 10k. Usually I only get about 3-4 people actually able to leave out of the 3+ pages of tapes.

EDIT
I see a lot of attempts and lots of tools Mr Carpenter. In hindsight it appears it's actually a lot better defended than I thought.

EDIT 2
Wow you made it to the end. I must admit watching you go through there... You are definitely a top player. I can see what's ticking through your mind as you analyse each trap.

EDIT 3
GOOD JOB MAN! That was cool. So what are your thoughts on the design?

EDIT 4
... accidentally clicked return to house... thought ah well quick self test then I'll get some cash to fix the damage... walked into pitbull.

I want to see someone attempt my final trap... I've been so tempted to just disable everything up to that point, then I think of how many times I've had a lucky bumbler walk through all my previous house builds and I decide against it.

Yep you will have a blast. While at work (if you get time) do a little reading on the wiki. It will save your butt from being killed from your own traps. I found this out the hard way when I assumed that powered trapdoors let power flow through them. Thats not the only assumption I made that killed me. 10 mins in the wiki however can save you hours from having to restart after a stupid death.

Well I have been playing for a total of 13 days. I brought the game just before the real money contest. It was really hard to start off as I would build a bit, wait for fail robbers, build a bit, etc... repeat that for a day. Go to bed and wake up broke. I'd make a crapload while asleep then lose it all just before I get up in the morning. I understand the frustration.
BUT
While you are doing that slow build you still have your house growing. If you persevere with it eventually you can fill your whole house with traps even though you get robbed every night and lose everything (unless you make sure your family is protected, then you lose half and have money to repair).

That would be one hell of an overhaul to get that working. Would absolutely love it though. Especially the fact that they would know I am watching every move they make.

The 4th pic with the chihuahua trap is quite funny when you have the turn on point (corner in that pic) 4 spaces (instead fo the 5 shown) to the switch. The range of a brick is 4 squares so people stuck in this seem to feel the need to throw a brick at the switch to turn it on while they are standing on the spot where they first see the chihuahua.

Happens a lot more than you would think.

I think everyone is having issues. I spent ages trying to connect to show off my house to a mate.