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I don't approve of exposing shlam's house like that - at all. I have a more complete map than you guys do, and would never post it here. Shame on you dustman and Amatiel.
EDIT: If shlam's house fall because of this it was a collaborative forum brute force job (CFBFJ) and won't count towards any honor.
Who's to approve what is and isn't a honorable strategy in TCD? All kinds of "low" strategies are used extensively in this game: Clocks, wireless transmission (before the bug was fixed), magic dances, comb locks behind commit gates, use of superior wealth to brute force possible threats out of the picture, scouting and transferring money with dual accounts, destroying poor houses just for the lulz, artificially keeping your wealth low to avoid attention, constantly reseting the death counter to make the house look harmless to noobs, hoarding paintings so no one else can have them, etc...
Talking of being honorable in this game is like talking of being hygienic in the sewers. ![]()
And by the way, Shlam also does most of those things I mentioned:


That inverted voltage triggered switch next to the entrance is not tripped, my mistake.
Built a little house yesterday and came back to check it today. Wife killed and vault broken. Went to check on neighborhood and there were no houses, but the doghouse had a bigger death count... 
All houses picked clean... The hell... Only the predatory players are playing with this mod? ![]()
Only 3 houses? Common guys, let's play this awesome thing.
And Iceman, can we get some more starting cash (like, 5k)? I want to make some bigger experiments with those gas thingies. ![]()
How do you solve it?
17 steps and one brick:
>>>>v^>>>><>>:use brick on the last switch:>>>>
Or if you have no bricks, 22 steps:
>>>>v^>>>>><<>><>><>>>
One more thing, I think that dog can be drugged from across the pit at 7.
Here's wot I think:

Dear Sir,
Thank you for your interest in my property. The information you have requested is provided below;
hahaha Mr Dustman...I know you well enough from these forums to never provide you with my current alias...even if I knew it I wouldn't tell you
Circle
lol... I'm no threat to anyone. My current home has 5 dollars and zero infrastructure. ![]()
I was just wondering if I'm not one of those robbers that died and left nice tools you speak of.
I have been thinking and I believe that the family is probably supposed to be a burden... Like IRL you know?
Good thing you can always count on permadeath to break your addiction.
BTA, What's your name?
42dustman wrote:shlam16 wrote:That's what happens when people lose connection to the server after entering a house. Poor bloke must be very annoyed if he was going well enough to have that kind of bounty.
Now that I think about it... I think this is a player with dual account, because a rich player broke in after him to get the 'stashed' money.
Maybe, but not necessarily. I like to hover between the 1-5k mark and poke my head into houses with 1-1 or 2-1. I've picked up several thousand from abandoned vaults numerous times. I also have a list of about 10 names at the very bottom of the list which are broken. You'd be surprised how often they show up in the 1-5k range with large amounts of cash and tools. I've even noticed that some people have a tendency to go on suicide runs and dump 1k in all of the bottom houses.
You're him! Brian Robert Howard! ![]()
42dustman wrote:That's what happens when people lose connection to the server after entering a house. Poor bloke must be very annoyed if he was going well enough to have that kind of bounty.
Now that I think about it... I think this is a player with dual account, because a rich player broke in after him to get the 'stashed' money.
you may have died right when I died. What was my house like? I'm sure I was him that was me in the tape
There were some long zig-zag corridors at the beginning, your family had to take a really long walk in order to exit the house after being spotted. They were right above a series of maybe 6 or 7 doors with 3 or more pitbulls protecting their 'flank', I sawed and drugged my way through the dogs and reached your family from the upper side, then I noticed a pitbull behind a window there in that 'family room', but paid no mind to it. After that I searched the rest of the house for your vault with no success. Then i decided to take a second look at your 'door row' and opened every door there, at that point I had forgot all about the dog I had spotted earlier. When I opened the penultimate door the bastard killed me instantly.
So, where was the vault?
Yeah I don't know what I was thinking. I got totally careless. on that one
You're Carroll? I died in your house like about 2 hours ago. Left a +20k bounty. Did you see the tape?
You have to actually step into the house to see the paintings.
I know. ![]()
I never had more than two paintings, and have never been robbed penniless except for when my house was a baby.
Guess I must have mistook you for someone else who visited my crib.
His entrance looks like this:

Right now Mr. Costanzo has two paintings, Sarsaparilla Sunset and some other I don't remember the name, but just yesterday he had a collection of 5 entirely different paintings. His wife is obviously not alive so he must have been robbed penniless and from there he rose back to the rich status all in a single day. I'm curious about the story behind that.
So you watched him being killen? ♪♫ bah dum tss ♫♪
42dustman - Non-tooled Score: 10/10
Wife defense Score: 8/10
Tooled Score: 9/10
Tricky Score: 0/20Total Score: 27/50
0 tricky? But I made the 2º and 3º floors kill you if you try to dance.
http://castledraft.com/editor/cqSoe4
You should give me an artistic bonus for the shape on that one.
Just sent in some more paintings. So, how's the collection going?