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#101 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-19 15:05:22

Did Mr. Sawyers Multicombo lock house just fall cause i was scouting that place for the whole week and about ready to take the cash today.

I actually have a plan for the cash and a goal to not die like a bumbling idiot, so please for christs sake do not tell me he is dead or robbed.

#102 Re: Main Forum » Terminal Heist Update » 2015-01-18 20:53:26

As far as potential monetization i seem to be remembering several ideas that came up a while back when i was diggging through old threads looking for something fun to implement in a house or even just some other stuff.

Note while i'm writing these down i think i might be mixing things up and merging ideas together...

In addition to normal art like we currently have Auctioned animals that could be bought from purchased credits Animals would be invincible to normal weapons however when shot or clubbed would be asleep and rendered nonlethal. Animals could be captured with a net  bought with the same credits as long as the robber successfully escapes. Pets can be killed using a less expensive gun to Shoot he thing. Pets are not stolen when the vault is robbed.

I remember something about alternate house styles a house owner could purchase. Such as instead of a pit, A pit of acid, or a pit of tentacles.

An optional painting display that Allows you to overlap a wall tile and allows you to display a piece of art.

Use that credits system to buy the Respawn lives.

How about some form of building yourself a new robowife and or kids using the points.

As far as any added features go that yo could exclude you could add on a chat type mail system. mail only gets sent to your current incarnation.

Just do not call it a F2P if you give it limited lives

Or if you insist on the temporary F2p perhaps a server that the regulars COULD join but the F2P are restricted to

#103 Re: Main Forum » Terminal Heist Update » 2015-01-18 15:11:07

cullman wrote:
voxel wrote:

That's the first time I hear of people cheating in that way.

Yeah, LordOfHam was famous for this he'd keep his house of the list all day just by staying in edit mode and having a macro press the left key, wait 5 seconds then press the right key.



voxel wrote:

Limited lives for free and unlimited lives for $X is basically the same as a try-before-you-buy. So that's perfectly legitimate.

But here's an idea: after your limited lives run out, allow people to still build houses (or bases or whatever you call them in TH), but not to rob other people. Then some fraction of people (say, kids without credit cards) will continue to play (which is clearly great for everyone else) yet I can't imagine this free option dissuading many from paying for the unlimited lives if it's not too expensive.

You know since I posted this, I have been thinking about it more.  One downside to limiting the number of lives for free players, is that it will negatively impact beginners and maybe stop them from getting into the game enough to become an addict like the rest of us.  Again, my main motivation for finding a way to make people who are playing a lot pay $5 is so that having their account banned means something.  Here is an idea I might like better.  What if we didn't let your house construction exceed $5-$10k unless you were a premium player.  That would have zero impact on beginners, but basically make anyone that wants to play the game seriously need to buy premium.

That would be terrible cullman what if a new player scored big early on? you would be punishing them horribly. I'm trying to stay out of all the terminal heist marketing stuff because i'm not that great at it. but if I know that if i randomly walked through a guys combo lock house that had gathered 15K. and i couldn't build anything to protect that much money i would just quit there and then. Believe it or not it is possible for a new player to obtain money easily mistakes happen and it is easy to let large amounts of money go out on to the house list undefended.

Don't punish luck.

#104 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-17 14:48:30

Hmm I figured the Wallace house would be easy to break once you get past the 2k proof walls i knew there was a well guarded dog dance past the initial one and kinda figured it was easier to go down and around if you could afford it.

#105 Re: Main Forum » william mark peterson » 2015-01-16 09:45:57

It remember the way in being something like
RLRRR then just walk in

#106 Re: Main Forum » william mark peterson » 2015-01-15 20:54:59

mala wrote:

ok, i was scouting the house of mr Peterson, he has an entrance that looks like it's clock based, i've disarmed it, mapped some house then the weird fact...

...the entrance went back on as i was leaving the house!

no pet saw me
no apparent clock cycle (thus it's obviously clock based)

how the hell it works?

i just took a step on a tile i've disarmed while entering and the next one got powered up...

haven't had the time to do more tests because i've tried an all in move that left me almost pennyless, 19k in a dumb looking house it's enough for me big_smile

gg to the owner, it isn't dumb at all.

any ideas on that? i'm not looking for the solution, the entrance is easily disarmed, i just can't figure out what happened


dunno how it works i just caught on to the pattern easy enough
just solved the house rlier tonight then died very very stupidly in my own house... i actually wish i had timed out of the thing and let someone claim the 19K because that sucked... i think im going to take a break until eppfels new heck house is up id love to keep playing but there isnt enough here to play with. and not enough to try and do anything with. honestly the most interesting place is walace's which has some strange buttons a form of dog maze some guess the door nonsense and i scouted a combo lock lower right (so far all i have for the lock and i was hurried and sloppy so 2,4)

the sawyer place is just a sloppy combo and some guess the door crap.

BUILD BETTER HOUSES!

#107 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-15 16:12:43

well i just had a look and gave you a small gift after murdering some guys wife he left with a shotgun but in a very poor place (he left the shotgun sitting within reach from an unguarded door...) afterwards i had no real plan and locked out of everywhere i meant to rob and had given up on the door in your place.  Gave it another shot and it looks like you did some remodeling. i may have to scout some more before giving up entirely.

i've been trying to invest in some of the more interesting designs hoping they get better. every 2 hours i drop 5 saws in a house as long as they are NOT USING ANY of the following.

A combo lock
A guess the door
A wild block spam
An unguarded vault
or are over 5K

i think i may have given out a single gift...

Eppfel if heck comes back from his vacation with anything resembling a combo lock i'm quitting...

#108 Re: Main Forum » Totally unrelated Joke of the day thread » 2015-01-15 11:17:57

Oops I nearly forgot my joke for today.

I have a one eyed girlfriend she's the one eye love.    Badum tsss

#109 Re: Main Forum » Totally unrelated Joke of the day thread » 2015-01-15 11:16:00

eppfel wrote:

I set up a little trap for Keenan, so maybe I killed him smile I put the dog one space closer to the entrance and robbed him, hoping of him running into him in quick self-test. His house was getting on my nerves. And the design looked familiar to me. Not uninteresting though.

Shame on you supposedly it had been in the works for months if you screwed it up he probably just quit.

I guess if it was going to just be another massive combo lock design he deserved it but SHAME nonetheless

#110 Re: Main Forum » A fun thing im demonstrating in my new house. » 2015-01-15 09:44:03

Honostly most if not all of the stuff they talked about there went over my head I understood the basics of a bit of it and then I found that circuit and it made more sense then anything else + still worked so I thought i would point it out and search for a practice purpose.

#111 Re: Main Forum » A fun thing im demonstrating in my new house. » 2015-01-15 06:34:21

No they patched it what i was experimenting with was the idea that they could power a non conductive element by powering from opposite sides on separate steps giving it the illusion of having no power at all

http://thecastledoctrine.net/forums/vie … id=988&p=5

Pic i found was at the bottom and explanation on the next page by jason.

There was some massive bug/exploit they patched allowing them to not power electronics and other wireless electronics until a certain switch was flipped but since it caused too many issues and was deemed game breaking they removed it.

#112 Main Forum » A fun thing im demonstrating in my new house. » 2015-01-14 19:42:22

JAAM
Replies: 7

Well  was digging around in some of the old posts here and uncoverd that wireless communication bug they found and patched a while back and then i saw a small post near the end of it discussing powering nonconductive tiles alternativly every other step so they stay on (though the surrounding tiles are off) so i gave it a go and in my house you will find a toggle switch  set up similar to a dog commit that looks like it should power floors and a trap door. however it only powers the trap door. the floors stay off the whole time.

If you want to take a look you can check for the house in the 0$ range.

#113 Re: Main Forum » Totally unrelated Joke of the day thread » 2015-01-14 17:58:23

hey has anyone seen the Keenan residence pop up recently? i've been getting anxious for it's release to the public... getting too impatient and wanting more.

#114 Re: Main Forum » Totally unrelated Joke of the day thread » 2015-01-14 14:16:09

matthias wrote:

Do you want to hear a dirty joke?
Ok
A white horse fell in the mud.


ps: what is my name big_smile " entry with 4 metal door, and one dog ( trapdoor at income ) "

have no clue im sorry dont see any house like that in the list... BTW if you are looking for a poor soul to do a santa run on my house has 0$ a dog in a trap door another trap door with a ladder in it, and the whole thing was just a shell of a poor mans dream.

humph i want to take out one of the combo houses and know how but im chilled out of most of the others right now i just need about 6K worth of saws...

actualy here is a breakdown of the current houses.

TOP 3

COMBO LOCKS

TOP 5

COMBO LOCKS OR DANCE

FRONT PAGE

actually the top 5 is where i quit because after about the 6th or so it's very basic stuff. I did find one that dumb founded me somewhere in there. (NOTE I MAY NOT BE SEEING ALL HOUSES DO NOT TAKE OFFENSE!

#115 Main Forum » Totally unrelated Joke of the day thread » 2015-01-14 11:19:24

JAAM
Replies: 6

So it's too quiet around here I'm making a new thread to spread some joy and jokes.

Did you hear about the mailman who killed his fellow employees I guess you could say he went postal.  Badum tsss

#116 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-13 21:19:44

mala wrote:
JAAM wrote:

really... its already been done? are you kidding me? humph perahps i can use some of these ideas in a different fassion.

my incarnation at the time was Charles Edward Luna... i've based the whole concept around my last name smile

actually it was probably the funniest house i've ever made, plenty of hilarious tapes of peoples trying to figure out a solution that wasn't there big_smile

huh ill have to look into it i kinda laid out a some stuff since there isn't enough money out there to build the whole thing. the place I set up has a few entrances marked with trapdoors and some animals trapped in rooms. I looked at the map and like the fun nature of it but i'm looking at more of a modular complete one section and one door opens approach. rather than the step back and forth until you walk to the exit style. i would love a few concepts for the 2 - 4 games i still need to add to the list however.

#117 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-13 19:07:11

mala wrote:
JAAM wrote:
mala wrote:

everything seems quiet lately.

Yeah I went and stated to take down some of the broken houses that were not being fixed it was just starting to bother me that half the list was some broken down place with a wife left over.

Kinda waiting for the funds (in a non combo lock) for a new modular house kinda fun house place each segment kind of a carnivalish game after completion it unlocks the next round of games. I'm still brainstorming what to put in. Got Plinko (using cats thanks for that idea I'm shamelessly coping cylence.) and perhaps some form of petting zoo where you must guide a certain animal through using it to pass multiple leaps of faith.


http://thecastledoctrine.net/forums/vie … hp?id=2947 big_smile

really... its already been done? are you kidding me? humph perahps i can use some of these ideas in a different fassion.

#118 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-13 18:56:10

AMWhy wrote:

So Albrechts is officially dead! I finally decided to try improving the house on my phone and it didn't go so well.  The most annoying part is that I couldn't save a map with changes to see what went wrong.  A leap of faith pit that should have closed didn't work, meaning Albrecht fell to his death.  He leaves behind two orphans and some 50+ pitbulls.

Wow so selfish albrecht left the community nothing, not even a bounty.

Jk sorry your revisions did not go according to plan.

#119 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-13 12:31:53

mala wrote:

everything seems quiet lately.

Yeah I went and stated to take down some of the broken houses that were not being fixed it was just starting to bother me that half the list was some broken down place with a wife left over.

Kinda waiting for the funds (in a non combo lock) for a new modular house kinda fun house place each segment kind of a carnivalish game after completion it unlocks the next round of games. I'm still brainstorming what to put in. Got Plinko (using cats thanks for that idea I'm shamelessly coping cylence.) and perhaps some form of petting zoo where you must guide a certain animal through using it to pass multiple leaps of faith.

#120 Re: Main Forum » RIP 227.5K » 2015-01-13 07:28:55

eppfel wrote:

I heard rumors Heck is not dead, but in Venezuela...

Oh really after a week I had assumed his Venezuela trip had ended and soon after he returned to his house he had some how died in some hideous suicide involving a dog several trap doors electric floors and pitfalls. But apparently not? If heck is alive us heisters may once again have a chance

#121 Main Forum » RIP 227.5K » 2015-01-12 21:36:25

JAAM
Replies: 2

In the depths of a cursed and forsaken house lied a vault. A vault that for thousands of weeks lied untouched by castle doctrine players. This vault was guarded by pits, doors, dogs, and many many cats. For many many players tried and failed to access its fortunes. Then the day came.  John Richard Milo put an end to the beast but when he did he released something far far worse. The money flowed forth into Milo's coffers where he built his own might fortress. This lead to a new soul claiming it, Donald Maynard Heck who is now presumed dead. afterwards anyone who successfully completed the Milo estate died soon afterwards and Smith himself committed suicide not long after Milo. Thus the whole Smith fortune has been destroyed.

RIP 227.5K

#122 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-12 14:39:37

I think I have ammassed a decent bounty and I'm tempted to either give it to amwhy in hopes of him further rebuilding give it to Malay in hopes of him further building or stash in in a solved house for me to collect in 2 hrs. I have a new house idea I want to build but no real clue on where I'm gonna find the cash with most of the nicer houses gone. Resorting to the 2K build is almost impossible now I know what a real house is (not realy but kind of)

#123 Re: Main Forum » death order? » 2015-01-11 19:32:18

Oh was it? Unfortunately I was not here during the days of fortress theory from what I heard and saw it sounded quite nice.

#124 Re: Main Forum » death order? » 2015-01-11 11:07:41

hmm so i cant somehow kill a dog and not a player then i was tinkering with small scale pulses all night to no avail. I figured as much the ultimate goal was to have an ultimate leap of faith where a player walks into a dog standing on an electric grid and instead of dieing the dog just drops dead of an electric shock. guess thats not going to work if the order is calculated like that.

Many Chihuahuas died last night. Rest in piece brothers.

#125 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-11 00:23:07

AMWhy wrote:

The funds were well received, JAAM, along with a few other... Careless explorers.  Albrechts is still vulnerable but vitally still alive!

i noticed you fixed up the place to my dismay i had hoped to scout it out just a bit more. ahh well the place deserved it. now how to pass that dance...

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