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YES, and use the indicator lights ALOT to test advanced traps. I have died many times assuming everything will work...

Glad to have you aboard Pirate! The game is fantastic and the community here is a lot of fun and very talkative.

Look Someguy I am not trying to be rude to your request. I do understand getting robbed can be frustrating but I can't stress enough what I said about the game always being scary and a gamble. It's a game that can be extremely disheartening but also extremely rewarding. Remember every house can be broken with no tools, so its really important to study traps and learn about them. It takes ALOT of experimenting and I would be a liar if I said I haven't gotten extremely frustrated with the game and stopped playing for a week or two because of not being able to get a good amount of $ to make a decent house. But that thrill of robbing someone for $20,000+ is unrivaled. It takes time and the learning curve for the game is huge. But now that the game has been out for a while in alpha there are alot of good threads on these forums and pages on the wiki explaining alot of the traps that I have spent numerous hours dying on and trying to figure out. This is just my opinion from playing the game for almost a year now and having numerous discussions with lots of people on these forums.

BUT who knows and maybe something like this could happen if it becomes frustrating for a lot of the new players. Alot has changed over the past year and I am not sure if Jason is going to continue to make changes and experiment with multiple releases of the game. 

Here is the official WIKI.

http://thecastledoctrine.gamepedia.com/ … trine_Wiki

But honestly when I started playing this game in Alpha last March a LOT of the fun was trying to figure out what each weapon did, how to make electronics work, WTF a cat did, etc. My buddy and I discussed it every day and immediately told each other once we realized something new like that a Brick could make a pressure plate turn on from a distance or something like that. It was an awesome thing to figure out whilst playing.

I like this idea as long as there are NO other incentives besides being able to watch the person rob your house. And I think that security cameras do fit in with the overall aesthetic of the game BUT since in real life if you were watching your cameras and saw someone robbing your house you would call the cops and not just watch someone rob you. So I think that for that reason this wont ever come to happen in CastleDoc. This game revolves its mechanics around real life scenarios that Jason has written alot about in the past. I like the idea but think it would take away overall from the aesthetic Jason is going for?

Even though I have wanted this feature in the past, more often than not, every time I have to rebuild a house I end up learning something new and making a better house. ALSO, the devastation that ensues every time I die in this game is BRUTAL (and AWESOME). I once commented about staring at my screen for 5 minutes after I died testing my own house too quickly and it perfectly sums up my love for this game, as I posted in my original topic above. Having saved states would totally ruin the thrill of trying to rob other people if you know you could easily get your "saved state house" back instantly. Jason has commented many times on this topic too within these forums and explained his reasoning as well.

oh such a nice small change on the blueprints. thanks!

welcome to the castle doc forums! i think that if you search around on the forums a bit you will see that alot of your suggestions have been addressed and discussed. there are alot of fixes and changes coming in the upcoming v.6 of the game. I would definitely search around on the forums because there is ALOT of discussion about Abandoned Houses, Electric Floors, dogs, etc. There is alot of great explanation by users but also from Jason Rohrer the games creator.

Although I like the discussion started here, the only problem I see with your original though bey bey is that having your family disappear is kind of a good thing and not a punishment. You can make your house much harder from the first step. Most people would opt to do this and then houses would become even more of a grind.