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much appreciated. i will give it a go after i inevitably die in self test

i sympathize with your frustration.  suiciding at your vault would have been the proper play especially as he's just going to go home and suicide there.  I think some players have an extremely Fuck-you attitude toward any house  that tries to kill them. 

also congrats on the seed money. good luck

yeah that was me. running around like an idiot.  lol. sigh. killed a nice house that was only 24hrs old.  for the curious, i still had 4 dog meats, i believe, when, in a room full of wooden doors, i opened a door, saw a pit bull, and leaped into his mouth... i was looking around for the buttons that would open the power door in front of what i believed would open the vault.  pretty confident i could've figured it out had i not been mashing LEFT.

blackout, i say buy a second account.  the major issue with alt accounts previously was that killing family members raised one's bounty by $1000 each, allowing for easy bounty transfers.  this has been fixed as murder nets only $200 each.  this means alt accounts are really only useful as suicide scouts for richer, tougher houses.  I think most owners of these houses would agree that it is fun being scouted, and without alt account scouts they would be bored with no fun tapes to view.  this would allow you to build a house and continue to rob freely, which, honestly, sounds really, really nice.

yes, very probably. do that again!

are there like 20 new houses, or is it me?

there are 20 or so new names and houses in the 1k-2k range.  exciting!

just mined semple i brought and used meats. but only a few just to calm me down.  got $200 and 5 saws. thx cheese

yeesh. ok that scares me. i'm still bringing meats. lol. i believe you. it's just. my heart.

First, welcome

i'm sure you will get many more eloquent responses than the one I am about to give you. 

in short: the game is losing players and does need more to be maximally exciting, however, nearly all of your complaints are part of the game and many would be worse if there were as many players as you had hoped.

$2000 is not a lot to work with.  you have to very carefully and cleverly use it to build an opening trap that will kill people that bring tools.  this is not easy.

Established houses are going to be very tough to rob.  They have money to build more traps because clever people couldn't figure them out and died. 

you really have 2 options when starting a fresh life.

1. spend all $2000 on robbery tools and take a shot at robbing a house with, say $4k-$10k value. (pro tip: you have 5 minutes on a fresh life before your house goes live so you can scout established homes with no tools, decide which tools you think will work best and then come back with that set.) this will still be difficult but you could get lucky and have much more $$ to build with. but mostly you will die. it's meant to be frustrating.  keep robbing.

2. you build a small house as cheaply as possible and leave as much as possible in your vault to attract robbers, although it won't be much.  then wait for people to die in your house and donate their bounties and unused tools. use these funds to improve your house and attract more robbers.

as far as the cheaper tools you think you missed out on, that was all in the alpha before the official release, so...don't worry. and the bigger bounties for killing family members was being used to exploit the system and so smaller bounties is actually protecting your family. and since you're new, your family could use all the protection they can get.

hope that helps

good luck and happy hunting

I checked semple's again. definitely fewer loose dogs, but still enough that I'm just gonna leave 2k sitting there   i'll check back later today, hopefully a few more will've been clubbed by then.

thanks, though

if you are alluding to a clever scout who got very far with not tools, c'etait moi.   i have no alts. i honestly just got lucky.  don't worry i didn't map your house and i do not recall what choices i made, only that i trusted my instincts!

yes