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Well, it's still an active house, so no freebies on what you see... But I just had one that was a 2-step death (didn't think anyone would actually do that...) but yeah. Guy walks in, and then jumped in a pit.

pet/window trap setups that do nothing, or that don't affect anything nearby, but waaaay further ahead on the path. order-specific pet tags... Think of Rube Goldberg machine type things, but with traps and player movement.

Oh, and about my thoughts on clocks: too much floor space, and easily broken if found, thus disabling the entire system. Of course if you're a wiring god, there's always stashing all the components all over the place. But again, then they're likely to be even easier to break while forcing past whatever obstacle is in the robber's way. But it all still depends on what the flavor of the week is in scouting behavior, I've seen an interesting range so far.

Those who're just trying to find your vault in one go will usually get caught by the psych traps (strategic weak-wall spot with a wall-dog anyone?) from what I've seen, while those who're scouting to actually crack your traps, are more likely to find your bluffs and figure out what's really going on. Either that or I'm just waaaay to obvious with my "to-the-safe" route planning.

And three saws still gets you past the door, ignoring the combo.

http://castledraft.com/editor/VHeVYj

Because he said harder, not impossible.

edit: Also, being that the game is "set"/themed from the early 1990's, electronic systems weren't nearly as miniaturized as they are today. And then there's the whole bit about the power requirements for some of the objects, leading to huge, bulky, house-space-eating heavily insulated wiring to keep you from zapping yourself just being near it.

^ That right there, says it all.

If you do that, hope you don't get caught for it; if you get caught, you can kiss your login(s) to the official server goodbye.

Actually, interesting timing on this thread. I was having a discussion about that in this game with my mother yesterday. She noted that while subtle, it's a common alienation women find in games. And then wondered just how much larger the player base for the game might be if there was a gender option for the playable character. All this came out of me mentioning something that had happened in-game earlier in the day.

I did however explain some of the game's dev history as I'm aware of it, including the early (before my play time with the game) stage when there were only the men and otherwise empty homes with just a vault.

Though from a marketing/exposure standpoint, it still may be a detriment to Jason's sales figures. She also games a bit, though only within the casual-gaming genre, but lack of what she feels are adequate representations for her as a player will still turn her away from a game she might otherwise play/buy/spend money in (think things like farmville on facebook as what she plays usually).

No, from what I remember, when I hit the place up, it had quite a few deaths marked up.

No, the house in question had a "cat&dead human" skull&bones shrine at the entrance. Couldn't miss it. Kitty combo chutes were along the far right wall.

Most recent: was upgrading my house, adding in a new layer of codes and various death barriers. Everything's good, wiring's correct, etc, etc, etc... However right before I started the final test with live traps, I forget to close up the cat chutes... Only to discover this AFTER passing the first commit gate.... Thus locking myself between a sealed door, an angry dog, and an LoF trap... The LoF trap's power only would be switched on after sending the correct cats down their path... which of course being improperly sealed off... meant that there was no power for the trapdoor. Oh well... Next round, I'll remember not to do that.

Actually, no one spends extra time on recording. Goto your game dir, and look at the "recordedGames" folder. Each text file is an entire game session. Plop the one (they're numbered) into the "playbackGames" folder, and run the client. Sadly there's no way that I know of to speed up or pause playback, but you've got a full record of everything you could see at any given time through all houses you've been in during that session. So, time spent mapping while playing can be 0... But, if you have multi-hour sessions like I do (I leave the client up so I can check my tapes, from time to time), watching the playbacks can indeed be VERY time consuming... But, there's your automap feature.