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Well it looks like he was robbed at some point today.

Wait a minute, can you shoot sleeping pit bulls with a gun? For some reason I thought sleeping pit bulls couldn't be killed by any means. If so, I have not accounted for this...

Well that is terrifying.

Does this only happen if you lose your connection to the server while testing/robbing a house? My wireless router is really spotty and I think it has cut off for a few minutes while I've been building my house or browsing houses on the list, but it didn't kill me. I would expect it to kill me if I were robbing a house though because otherwise you could simply exit the game if you were about to die.

That's my understanding too; I think unused tools do simply vanish after a successful burglary.

But... I thought the latest update was supposed to prevent that? Didn't v14 make it so that dogs avoid stepping next to dead dogs except to kill?

Edit: Also, I have tapes both before and after this particular robber in which the dogs obey the expected v14 behavior of avoiding stepping next to dead dogs.

Yeah, it sounds like you missed that last couple of updates.

Version 5 was before my time. What was different then that made only the elite have paintings?

From what I can tell, right now everyone is too poor to afford non-cheap paintings. When every dime counts, you don't think about spending money on paintings. Ironically, this causes nobody to buy any, leading to a collapse in their price until suddenly they are all dirt cheap and anyone can buy them.

How did you get your lights green? Mine are orange.

This sounds like an interesting idea. If tool use caused animals to move twice, that would still prevent using tools to bring pit bulls within killing distance. Dogs that started out an even number of spaces away would remain an even number of spaces away. It would also make it harder to tunnel through a wall as a means of escape as gyuri points out.

An extreme version of this happened to me yesterday. I had a house that was one long, winding passage to my family with lots of dogs. Someone robbed my vault (right next to the door), which pulled the first dog down one step so that it became clubable with a crowbar... Well some very patient robber came in with 20 crowbars and walked up and down every passage, luring each and every one of the dogs all the way back to the entrance, where he could stand on the previous dog's corpse and club his latest victim. It must have taken forever. I lost all my dogs though (I think I had exactly 20). I scrapped that house...

Here's what it looked like:

http://castlefortify.com/c/170291d

As far as I can tell, there are only three ways to keep your family when starting out:

1. Successfully rob a rich house using only your starting funds and use the money to build an expensive and secure house.

2. Happen to be playing at a time when there are several other players online and a bunch of active houses to rob. When there is a lot of activity online, you can build upwards of $10-15K in a very short period of time by robbing others and looting vacant "freebie" homes. This is usually enough to build a reasonably secure starter house.

3. Just start building a house you have nowhere near enough money to complete and happen to be lucky enough that nobody kills your family while you add to it piece by piece until it becomes secure.