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Come map it yourself, noob.

Amatiel you need to get a grip and stop trying to play the martyr card when you are the expletive who is in the wrong here. My brother does in fact have an account, and we frequently do scout together, but this nonsense you are spouting is simply that. Nonsense. I also love your "proof beyond a doubt" too, you would make a great scientist. Do you realise how many houses I stick my head into when I'm online? All of them, that's how many. But since I stick my head into a house and find a vault staring me in the face, I am to be condemned for taking it?

Also, how about you get your story straight. My wealth was sitting at 9k when I came back online. I promptly robbed some low hanging fruit (Charles David Clark had like $4800 alone) and got up to about 16k before spending around 10k in your house. What a waste of space it is. I mean literally. Yawning chasms of pits, concrete/pit/concrete/pit, no creativity whatsoever. Unlike some of the more petty and spiteful players in this game, I will not post the map of your house. I don't want anyone else getting what is mine. Expect to see me back again shortly, if you actually payed attention to the broken maps you would notice just how often free money shows up in them. Here's a free tip, map out Patrick Connells house and some of the other obviously broken ones, those are abandoned goldmines. If you spent more time perfecting your game than complaining, you might realise just how easy it is to turn a profit from the 2-6k lower middle class.

Edit: Well that last attempt was a waste of money, I wasted too much time writing this stupid comment and forgot to buy crowbars. Oh well, see you tomorrow.

Edit 2: You know what, screw you guys in general. I'm going to have a long think tonight about retiring my house unbroken. If I'm entirely honest, the game got stale a while ago and I was only playing it out of habit. It was Stefan who helped reignite my passion with our recent challenge. With multiple low rate thieves sharing my map, I would rather die than have some petty fool take all of the paintings.

Money is worthless. There is literally not a single cent I could spend on my house anymore. Paintings are the endgame. I have no desire to be at the top of page 1, babysitting a pile of cash, I would rather use the cash to keep accruing more paintings. Come pay me a visit with 60k, you wouldn't be the first. My vault has yet to be seen, let alone reached.

As for making a financial loss to rob me, if you don't count paintings as a symbol of wealth then you are entirely correct. Nobody will ever make a cash profit from brute forcing me, because I see absolutely zero point babysitting that much money when I could actually be having fun robbing people.

(Btw, just making it clear that this is intentional braggadocio/smack talk; I really do want to see what it takes for someone to reach my vault; I want to share my house with this community. However I will not do that simply by sitting on an ever so slowly rising pile of cash. Noonan and Dunn (who I assume you are one of) have been at the top of the list for weeks and their value barely changes. Nobody pays any attention to them. That is not fun. The endgame for me is entirely about robbing paintings.)

You have? Do you know your name? I don't remember anyone seeing more than my entrance without dying except for Stefan and Gyuri, but they are both dead now anyway.

Mr Noonan and Mr Dunn are regular visitors, but they only take 3 steps so I think they are just keeping an eye on my art. Are you Mr Coney?

But welcome to my castle . Since I have become active in the forums and everyone seems to know I am the painting hoarder, I thought I would up the stakes for anyone who wants to have a little scout. It was the first major renovation I'd done on my house in weeks, terrifying to self test. I must have done it about 5 times with indicator lights and chihuahuas before I had the guts to do it for real.

If you haven't yet established a new house for yourself, you should peek your head into mine and see my new entrance Stefan. It's been in the pipelines for a while, but until now I liked to keep my entrance inviting. I finally made it deadly and it hasn't seemed to deter the 2k guys, which is nice.

As the guy who has over 60 paintings currently, I don't really see why people like to return them. If you have paintings you don't like then buy/steal more so that you can hide them and only keep nice ones on display. 3/4 of the paintings I have are utter garbage, but I like having them as a status symbol that my house is very successful.

I'm just waiting to annoy one too many people and see how much it costs to crack my house. I want to post it here, but not until it is defeated.

You are correct, I just realised I forgot to change that. A simple fix.

http://castledraft.com/editor/7rsBH3

This is true, I employ a system where the dog steps on a sticking switch and disconnects a trigger switch. I was just highlighting the cheapest way possible.

Edit: See my updated post just above this one. It just costs $100 more which can hurt starter homes.

Or, you know, not. A robber can make the wrong decision in your method and still escape alive for the measley cost of a meat. That's $100. Or if they don't walk up the path initially, but instead scare the cat it only costs a meat, a water and a brick to escape - still only $350. Either that or they can just avoid it entirely for free, not get committed, not die, and not give you their bounty.

Here is an expansion of the best variety. If they are clued in to the corner trick then they would be smart enough to avoid it. This is where the powered doors come in. They figure it is safe to stand on the button because they can always just flee, how wrong they are. The panic button in front of the door keeps the dog blocking their exit. No 2k robber could afford to circumvent this.

http://castledraft.com/editor/YBnaXi

For anyone wanting a starter house using this technique, just get rid of the second dog, get rid of the powered doors, get rid of the steel, scale back to 2 thick walls. This brings the price down to $820. Leaving plenty for extra defenses once they are committed and can not escape without over $900 in specific tools.

http://castledraft.com/editor/vs4mfJ

Bases are supposed to trap robbers. Even better if they don't realise they have even committed until it is too late. Your method doesn't force commitment and even if they fall for it, it is super cheap to escape.

As someone who has never experimented with mods before, and is deep in the endgame of CD, will installing this cause me to lose my current game?

Edit: Btw, kudos! The changelog looks awesome, good luck with it all and I will give it a shot for sure.

You're welcome.

No. You get yourself into this position:

http://castledraft.com/editor/MC0Bvy

The dog is on your tail also, but forget about that for now. Simply step up. Wife steps down. Bypass each other safely.