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Lord0fHam is on the list of cheaters. Enough said.

Ah here we go again with cullman, the person who single handedly tried to ruin this game by spamming forums about cheaters constantly and bringing up so many fake problems and imaginary ideas. Now look he has to post he's quitting. LOL. Need more attention? He never had a house above $600 and could never resist 2k tools. Constantly blaming people when he sucks. Same crap every day. You called a forum spammer great. Good laughs. Good Riddens - Now new players won't be plagued with his BULLSHIT. The only donk to pay people because someone robbed his $400, $600 houses.

If you were so busy (which you say often in most forums) You wouldn't constantly write forum books about things that never even matter. You were just wasting peoples time and making the game look bad for new players. Turned a game about robbery into the vagina monologs.

edit: Jason Thanks You for all the multi accounts you helped him sell.

Sometimes it is just a matter of one moved dog in well known broken house that kills good robber.

Jeez!  You folks found the major hole in the general idea of a "big pending bounty building up on a house."

Yeah, you could harvest this pending bounty with an alt account (so the alt robber has a huge bounty on his head) and then kill the alt robber in the main house to give that bounty to the main.  I can imagine this being really tempting for owners of top houses (why let this built-up money end up in someone else's house?), especially as time passes and a breach starts to seem inevitable soon.

The super-simple solution of reducing the murder bounty to at or below the cost of murder ($200) is interesting...  Might as well just buy tools with the alt and dump them in your main account (for $1000 in value) instead of trying to build up a bounty.  Already, vault-reach in a dead house to build up a bounty isn't worth it, because it requires at least one tool-dumping death in the dead house first to make the vault reachable again, which is $2000 wasted, and you only get $500 bounty for hitting a vault.

So, I'll do that for now and see what happens.  Best to keep it as simple as possible.

I like some of the formulas that you folks came up with here!

Following Cullman's already-scored thread-hijacking, the ability to use abandoned houses as chill-avoiding wealth-transfer points... this is an issue.  If X such dead houses are available, that would mean $X thousand in free money per day from a single alt account.  Cullman, your solution would work, but I'd rather have something simpler in place...

Let me follow Cylence's example and just summarize what my current favorite solution is:

Pending Bounty(PB): How much a house's bounty is worth (i.e. how much robbing it will increase your bounty).
B: A robber's bounty

Bounties start at $100, pending bounties start at $0.

If a robber dies in a house, the owner recieves $B, and PB goes up by B/2
If a robber brings T amount of tools, PB goes up by T/100
If a robber reaches the vault, his bounty goes up by PB, and PB is reset to 0
(Maybe) If the owner resets his house, PB is reset as well

Basically, PB is a measure of how "good" that house is, while B is how "good" a robber is.  A house is considered "better" as people die in it (the better the robber was, the better the house is considered) and as they fail to brute force it.  Robbing a "good" house means a robber is "good" as well, and killing a "good" robber will give you much more money than an untested one.

Obviously, the numbers could (and should) be changed, but there's only 4 of them.  Starting bounty and pending bounty, what fraction of a bounty gets added to a pending bounty, and what fraction of tools get added to the pending bounty.

I'd also like if there was a system to tell how much a robber had to lose, based on both his house's cost and his wealth, and adjust the bounty payout accordingly, but that's independent of how to calculate a robber's bounty/"ability" (you could use Cylence's method to calculate bounty, and then adjust the payout).

Anyways, I have to go, so I don't have enough time to give examples.  I'm just wondering, Cylence, if you could explain exactly why you prefer your solution over this one (I'll do the same when I have time).

I have a proposal.  I was doing some santa runs the other day, and I noticed a huge number of the sub $1000 houses have vaults in very easy locations sometimes right in view of the welcome mat, with super well protected wives and maybe total house value of just $46 or whatever.  In my mind, these house were designed and are left in zombie state to transfer money between alts to avoid chills directly between their alts.  For anyone that doesn't understand how this works, you take your alt account and fill it full of bounty or tools or whatever, take it into a broken house, die in there.  While you have your main constantly refreshing on that house to run in right after.  What if we did this....if a house is vault is broken, and someone dumps tools in it ESPECIALLY IF the bounty and or tools dump is greater than the previous value of the house, then that house does not immediately come back on the list for everybody.  First, it pulls a random number 0-25 (you'd actually use a deck shuffle rather than a random) 0-25.  If the first number is 0 then it allows any person who's name that starts with "A" to see the house.  Then it waits 4-5 minutes.  Then it pulls another random, number say the number 5, Now all players with names starting with the Letter F can now see the house.  Then waits another 4-5 minutes and another 1/26th of the population can now see this newly enriched house and so on until 90 minutes later everyone can see the house.  What do you guys think?  It would make coordination near impossible, most of the time, some other random person would get your proposed inter-account transfer.

Start a vendetta here on the forums - or go up against someone inside TCD. If you make someone feel threatened, they will come for you.

pagedMov wrote:

I've been thinking.. Maybe based on the value of all of the tiles in the house robbed, it would increase your bounty based on that. That would make $2000 0 0 houses be worthless for bounty boosting, and low level house worth a little bit, and high level houses increase your bounty a lot.

The problem with that is that then broken houses, like Connell's, would then give people *huge* bounties to potentially exploit.