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One question: would you have killed my wife if she was carrying 50k$? 100k$? I know you're not a murderer, but you know, these days...

I knew the weakest point was the wooden walls around the cat cage... And yet I let it be. Oh well, I bounced back...
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I see a strange behaviour... After I have been robbed, some house objects appear with the grayscale mod when I am in building mode! It looks like these are the items that were triggered/pets that have been seen/walls that have been destroyed during the robbery.
They were so impressed by Mr Price's power that they definitely lost their colors...

Ooo... I just realized maybe I was the last one not using this technique

I just found a solution to the visibility issues I was complaining about, and I wonder why I haven't found it a long time ago. Basically, you can see more stuff through the shroud if you have a high gamma monitor (which I guess, few people have) or if you take screenshots and edit them to crank up levels (as I do, but it is long and painful. Yesterday I even got killed because I was switching between the game and the image editor, I thought I was in my image editor, I pressed up... and died. I'm sad I can't scout Mr Price's house, but that's another story). Well, my solution is to create an ICC profile for my monitor that works well with TCD. On my Mac I started a robbery in windowed mode, and next to it I opened Preferences->Monitors->Calibrate, and I wiggled the cursors until I had the furthest vision in a various set of configurations. Then I saved the profile and I switch it on every time I play TCD. No need to screenshot anymore in every corner, I feel free
I'm not sure whether Windows has an integrated tool to create custom ICC profiles, but I know there are free softwares to perform it.
The only drawback is that the shroud has quite hard edges now but it is very interesting to see the shroud moving in real time as you move, and it gives the game and old fashion look, which I think goes well with Iceman's grayscale mod.
I can upload the profile if anyone is interested in trying it, but to get the best results I think each monitor needs its custom profile.

Awesome, this is a really nice work! I love the dark mood it gives. And it reminds me of my old pitbull's glowing eyes suggestion

Combo locks are boring, but are not to difficult to brute force if you have the cash. So, the best way to deal with them is to ignore them until you have enough cash to crack it. It would be nice to have a note on the front door, left by previous robbers, that would say "beware, 6-bit combo lock inside". So most people would just ignore the house.

DaVinci, in case you haven't noticed, this forum is a place where people come to share what they know about the game to make it better. If you want to brag about how you know how to exploit the game without explaining it, you better post it on your facebook wall instead.

I finally decided to have a try at building a clock (I remember being stuned the first time I entered Huckabee's house. Loved it!). I had fun today building a "waltz" clock, a clock with period 3 (I had never seen one before). I'm not sure if this one is really interesting for building a trap, because if you are facing a trap that turns on/off based on an odd number period and if you can move a bit around, then you can move back and forth until you are facing the trap the way you want (if you want to do this in front of an even period trap, you may have to use a tool to catch up the tempo). Maybe with the help of pets it could become interesting.
However, this is my try, and it is the most compact I can build so far:

The 3 first rows are the pulse generator, nothing new here.
The idea of this clock is that there are 2 storage areas, the indicator light zones. On the first step, the lights on the left turn on. On the second step, the energy passes to the lights on the right. On the third step, they are all reset (there is a test on wether the two zones are on at the same time).
I'm pretty sure this can be improved, so I'd like to tempt electronics specialists around here if they can build some more simple or smaller waltz clock!

You'll have to hit a key every few minutes, I'm not exactly sure how many (maybe 10 minutes?). If not, you won't die but you'll be kicked out of your house (and open to robbers)

There are many houses that are "free" to scout if you are being careful. I mean, houses without entrance fees (commit gates) where you can walk down a lot of corridors (possibly coming in and out if you get spotted by a pitbull), and figure out where is the vault. The important thing is to make sure that your way back to the exit door cannot be cut by a pitbull. Sometimes you discover that the house was brute-forced and has some destroyed walls which create a path to the vault! That is what hapened to me this morning, after I got completely robbed during the night. Now I'm back on business

In the Sarsaparilla serie, I have only seen the night one recently (quite often, it is one of my favorite). The two others, I haven't seen them in weeks, and I scouted hundreds of houses... I wonder where they are...