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THIS is a smart suggestion... if the client only knows what the player can see, cheating is rendered rather useless...

We talked about this before: http://thecastledoctrine.net/forums/vie … php?id=290

I suggested removing blueprints (for some houses) and, ideally, switching to a system where you pinged the server on each turn. That's the only way to do what you're describing. Instead of just submitting your moves once done with a robbery, you'd have to do an HTTP request for every single move... potentially hundreds of requests. Then the server has to load your map into memory (or keep it there the whole robbery) and process  a single turn. Not only is this a huge amount of overhead, but it actually might introduce a little bit of lag. In most games you can do some sort of approximation while waiting for the server response, but here when you move into a new tile, you have to wait for the server to know what you're going to see.

I'd really like to see that stuff implemented because I think blueprints are central to the future of this game, but it's no small change.

I'd say the biggest problem is that once you accept permadeath, you can always use all the tools you can buy at the beginning just to crack houses - there's no obligation to contribute a house of your own.

Yea, the problem is that if you're determined to rob one of the top houses, $6k is immaterial in the face of a $20k+ payout. If tools were more expensive and/or the starting money lower, you might instead build a house and wait for salary to roll in before attempting that.

jasonrohrer wrote:

The problem is still imbalance.  House owners have a fundamental advantage over robbers, because they can design puzzles that are unsolvable in practice.

I still don't see that that's been demonstrated. Maybe it's possible, but I don't currently see how.

1. One issue I see with creating levels in TCD is that creator must solve it without tools.  This limits the design possibilities exponentially.  If you have a set of tools you could take along when you self tested, then all sorts of things would be possible when creating a trap.