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Yup.

I think it might be that it's just one or two people, so one could deal with it in situ. But it wouldn't solve the exploit for sure, since the problem is the "free 2k", that are much needed otherwise, combined with unlimited tools.

Well, idk. We're back to one page of houses as of now.

Just playing as a robber is fine, if done fairly. With a lot of skill, one robber can take down lots of easier houses without contributing anything, just taking cash and content out of the game, but that has to be accepted I guess. But add pumping to the game and this might be what keeps destroying it. It looks like ALL the beginner houses disappeared again, and we're all on borrowed time. That's quite a shame.

Hah! My house is still there and my amusing little deathtrap is raking in the victims (I stole the idea from the guy suggesting the "unexpectedly shutting doors" - kudos). Knowing the character of my deceased wife she'd be very pleased with all the dead men accumulating from my rage... I hope it didn't kill the Dalleck, though.

HAHA, that's a problem of course...

I'll be interested in that (I also have something in mind and it would be interesting if your solution is similar to mine or not.) As I'll be away for the weekend and my house should be gone by the time I get back to a Computer on Sunday, I might get to implement it. It might be nice to build something that can reach 30-50k again without being broken by the rich kids, but we'll see if that's possible with a living wife.

Wow, this is incredible. Probably the guy set up a house and found out he couldn't handle the neighbourhood.

It's a very sad thing if people can't understand that TCD is at least as much a piece of collective performance art as it is a normal game.

I also did it. It's always sweet once you step into a house and figure out a design and its weaknesses by recognising that your first steps looked similar... Often times is that somebody thinks he has forced at least a one-in-three choice upon you but the dog that's meant to be chasing you can be drugged and you can check out all the doors.

(The least it takes for those choices is something like this http://castlefortify.com/c/12fad77 if I'm not mistaken).

Huhm, for me it's the opposite: you can get a house going with the wife alive, yes, might even be a bit quicker, but after the first night, you're more likely to have lost all. That's because your wife has earned too much money to stay below the radar (and because your house needs to expand more for the wife to be somewhat safe, which means more widespread, thinner walls that nobody will cut through for 2k, but for 8k they will). Probably the mistake is starting in the evening. Build something in the morning and return every two hours or so to invest the cash into thicker walls etc. and one might survive the night.

I hear you concerning the dead family, it's a bummer, I hoped to keep mine alive "permanently" this time, but that might be a pipe dream.

Smart thought, but then again, somebody who solves the puzzle will probably still burn his tools on all walls and animals in sight.

For me, it seems that the problem is that it's not possible to make your house withstand the sort of attacks that come over night as you accumulate 7-10k. You can only make your house so safe in the current economy by playing and that's just not enough to survive the attacks aimed at your newly gained riches. Probably the best defence is indeed to make it one-time-robbable, hide the wife properly and then sit it out for a day or two until you have 10-20k at your disposal. But then again, that's not really playing.

I used to blow lots of cash on paintings at earlier stages (up to 50k or more) just because my house was worth way more than the cash and a robbery with tools was the only really devastating possibility.

I bet Jason would enjoy the interview questions that would produce.

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It's often an important piece of information: If it appears that there is no way somebody could survive a situation without tools, you know that the house is broken, so some mechanics might not be working anymore and there may be no solution (except for tools). Then again, some people leave damage from previous robberies in place to suggest that something is broken which indeed isn't, thus stringing you along.

I have a curious question: Can a dog like this be drugged or shot? Around the corner? Because if it can't, there is a ludicrously simple way of building one-time-robbable houses now.

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