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Youll get there mate, when i started playing again last week i just missed (by a matter of minutes) on robbing THREE different top end houses coz someone else beat me to it or self test death.

Now, i have made three robberies in excess of 15k each since then. Persistance!

Hmm things seem pretty hot near the top.... i think ill keep my value below 10k until my place is completely finished

Big houses seem to be dropping like flies atm

My new house is coming along nicely but still a ways off from being fully completed.

Mr Barnes has proven very generous once again

gotta lose the combo locks man

Did you rob stein/thoth eppfel?

Was it yew??????

I dont think its your most sturdy design, looking at ur rather impressive history.

Art is art i spose

Or is it quite unfinished?

Its hard to start out with a 2k house design (in fact ive never done it)

Start out by doing suicide scout runs on the top ten houses and compile notes and maps on each

Rinse repeat.... i usually rob one by about 5-7 suicide scout runs.

You do need a good knowledge of mechanics and to think each tool use through carefully to conserve them.

Now some houses (huge combo locks that cant be cracked with 5 saws... even one button at a time) arent worth your time... but you will soon find the weaker houses and focus your effort on those. Each time you will go deeper, as you have scouted/solved that part of the house previously, until you reach the vault.

Sometimes you might need to rob one of the broken houses or an unaltered 2k starter house where someone has gone afk, or rob a cheap house, to give you extra funds to for more tools.

Robbing teaches you how to make houses stronger too

Then you can start your new house with a nice 15k+

Be sure to have a design ready tho. And the time to put it together carefully.

That is what i do anyway

Someone has been absolutely SMASHING my house with at least two accounts... I just died in a self test after -in the typical capricious artist fashion- deciding my design needed significant work -IT MUST BE PERFECT!!! I will settle for nothing less! So my sub-conscious threw it away.

But yer they are either really pissed at me for robbing them (maybe mr Barnes? I doubt its eppfel/rodigruez) or they really wanted "night sky". So among us is definitely at least one serial multi account user.

meh the current 2 hour chills does seem sufficient, it was just getting to me that i would get so close to making a large robbery only to have it snatched away at the last second.

Stein id need to see at least 50k or more as your value to make it worthwhile robbing using a single account. I cant suicide scout as you keep changing it up.

yea i got past that bit too, its the bit after that where u traverse to southern most trap door and you have the pitbull in front of you, behind him is a standard "pit bull 2 spaces behind you to pass" leap of faith that i couldnt figure out.

The nothern-most trap door you can take leads you ultimately to a dead end, even if you brick the switch to get over the second trap door, upon stepping on that same swith it reveals a corridor going north with a cat that locks itself behind a powered door, which was a dead end behind it anyway. That cat needs to be scared south via a door near the entrance i believe.

Banning accounts requires a lot of man-hours and resources, time better spent thinking up new features etc.

Automatic prevention is best. A distant second is automatic detection of suspicious accounts.

Also, what happens when you are on holiday? Or sick? or cbf? or have had enough for a while? or move your focus to a new project? Active enforcement does not instill confidence within the community for minor and common offences unless its for something very unusual or serious.

Do yourself a favour and asshole the active enforcement idea except for extremely unique cases.

Maybe you should starve to death if you dont meet the minimum 8 hrs exposure per day? Something along those lines anyway.

Sounds like each house needs to have a minimum exposure time of say 8 hours per day (whilst you are sleeping), else you will be kicked out of your house until that minimum is reached.

I could see that working then