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Beautiful

I believe so!

I think it's working pretty well.

You're right that there doesn't appear to be dominant strategy yet. In fact, I've seen houses that are extremely weak against a brute force attack (using less than starting cash) spring to the top of the ladder with tens of thousands of dollars and numerous kills.

The wife is at least useful for keeping these houses in play after the vault has been reached!

Though I think she still plays an important role — it's often easier to protect the wife than the vault, and seeing as the wife keeps her own bounties a house that cleverly uses the wife to score kills can lead to some amusing dynamics, like a robber spending a large amount of money to reach the vault only to discover that the wife is holding all the money.

I'm not convinced that reducing the starting bounties is necessary. After all, you can only die once an hour in any given house. Cash flow in the game at the moment seems healthy, and it responds to active play. If people are playing, money is going into the system. It will be interesting to see how the top house metagame evolves with more players.

You can only lord it over the peasants for so long before you have to take a nap!

You make your own one way voltage tile:

Nothing on the lower half of the circuit can travel back up and interfere with the higher part.

Whole map screenshots are looking NICE

I think I robbed your disco house for a tidy sum!

The only obvious visual clue that I can think of is a flicker animation (like, a grid flickering weakly on and off, or a door poking a little bit out and then receding). But I'm pretty sure you don't plan on introducing any sub-turn frame animation at this point.

I think yesterday must have been a good day for money and fools.

First Michael Edgar Lance turned up with more than enough guns to get to my family, but unfortunately appears to get a little overexcited and leaves me with one hell of a bounty.

I decided to put that money to good use, but after putting an electric floor back in the wrong place I sealed my own tomb about 10 minutes later.

That'll learn him.

I dunno, Bill. I think it's easier (and more fun!) to work out the solution to a pattern-based electronics puzzle than wrangling an unseen pup over some faraway switches, or choosing from one of twenty doors.

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He died as he lived