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I'll post my current never been close to robbed (but someone shot my wife then got pitbulled) map when it finally gets broken.

It's the one currently worth 43,500 and which has 8 paintings, if anyone wants to have a go.

Well, that was interesting. I may even have played too conservatively, given that I spaffed a fair bit of money on paintings and tools to keep my net worth down. The only guy who was ever really a serious contender at all for my vault came in with 18k worth of tools, drugged a dog then stepped on it.

Still, $45,000 or so ain't bad. Definitely the longest a house has lasted me so far as, too, mostly I end up stepping on my own traps well before this point!

Quick, use ALL the explosives!

EDIT: Iceman, would you be Mr. Jeffrey William McCoy by any chance, leading the pack with a clear $210,000 for a total of $340,000?

The unlimited tools do at least stop a lot of the turtling that happened early in the game when you could only bring in 8 items total. However I still think that it could potentially be better with a cap of 10 of an item in a slot though, so if you wanted 20 dogmeat you had to use two backpack slots.

For the next 40 minutes or so, sounds like.

Here's a question for you. When you've exited the house with tools in your backpack, those are removed from your vault right? So if I was to load up to with every kind of tool imaginable, leave the house, pop back in five minutes to reset the timer, leave the house, pop back ...

Well, wouldn't that give me an abnormally low valuation, up until I drop all the tools back in the safe in 35 minutes time?

You can just hover over the 'Sell All' button to get the price in a tooltip, by the way.

Hmm, looks like I just accidentally slipped back into the top 20. Maybe time to buy another painting...

My favourite traps are always the ones which play with expectations. For instance the classic 'dog in a wall', which I haven't seen around as much since back in version 10ish times. Set things up so your victim is herded into a specific dead-end by a horde of dogs, and like as not they'll take a saw to that inviting wooden wall. Then bam, dog in your face. Makes me laugh every time someone is caught by it.

Also works nicely to freak out people attempting to circumvent your maze from the outside.

The other classic is the leap-of-faith. Read up on precedence on the wiki (buried in the pitbull page at the moment: http://thecastledoctrine.gamepedia.com/Pitbull) if you want to understand this one.

The player moves.
Pet movement occurs.
House objects and electronics update.

Meaning you can step on to an electric grid which is powered on, then the pet moves onto a button, then the state of the electric floor (and your Schrödinger charred corpse) is determined.

I especially like the variant on this below, which has been ripped straight from my current vault:

This works on three levels. At the newbie level, opening the door at the top and seeing the scary pit incites them to turn around and go back the other way, where a cunningly inviting corridor filled with doggy death doors awaits them.

On the intermediate level, the fellow comes along and sees an unpowered trap door. But then he spies the dog, who will move down a tile when he does, hitting the button. So he bravely steps out into empty space, only to land heavily, crushing his legs and dying a lingering death.

Why did he die? Because there isn't actually any power coming into the pit from the dogs side. Instead the power to the trap door is turned on by doing a little magic dance somewhere far, far away in the maze. Oh, and incidentally this trap door works as a double bluff when it has been powered on. Because the even more eagle eyed expert viewers will notice that's a toggle pressure switch (starts on) which the dog is about to step on, which if they're wrong could switch off the power after all...

Nothing like a real money contest to make you extremely paranoid. I currently have six paintings and I'm considering buying another, in an effort to keep my net worth below the perceived $30,000 'screw it, tool up and take him' threshold.

Funny thing is, the vast majority of people who enter my house die on the one of the first three traps (<3 doggy death doors ... and powered doors ... and trap doors ... y'know, doors in general). I don't think any of the 80-odd kills I've had since Saturday has penetrated more than half way to my vault yet, but I just don't want to risk the possibility. I'm now relying on chills to keep me safe until 1am.

The same as normal, the only way money enters the system is the initial $2,000 from a new life. And that's what you would be charging for. So it's physically impossible for the hoster to lose money, especially given the other money sinks in terms of tools and suicides.