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I'm a bit worried about some of the proposed changes.  Additionally, I don't quite understand many of the proposals.

I think that duel accounts are totally overstated, but I believe Jason is correct in pointing out that the bounty system is the biggest problem when it comes to free money.  The only thing I don' agree with is that it is free money.  I often focus a life on just bounty to see how high I can make it & it is not easy.  First of all, every time you go clubbing, you put yourself at risk. Also, you will quickly wipe out any completely unprotected family.  At this point, it costs more money and is more risky.  Usually when I go broke I just gift the bounty to some lucky house (with at least some defence).

If anything, I think just make sure you cannot hit the same vault more than once every 24 hours.  Additionally, lower the murder bounty to like 200 each.   That way you only get 200$ added to your bounty for each killed.  Since the tool you spend to add that bounty costs at least 200$, it isn't worth an investment for use in money transfer.  Seriously, the problem is that it is like 1k per killed, so you can hit a 2k house and make a bounty of 3500.  I have gifted 30k bounties before in just a few hours starting from 2k, but eventually I die in the process.  If it was 200 per killed, a 2k house would be worth less bounty than cash stolen from it.

yeah you move your vault or something from its normal position?  That looked super easy.  You should beef up the magic dance a little so people cannot accidently solve it.

haha I got the top house now with like 4,000$ and a painting that was stolen from me several lives ago.  Just see if you can get that back from my house fortress

The crazy thing is without even seeing the house that was robbed, just by reading this thread I know EXACTLY which house we are talking about.  The reason for this is because it a design that seems to have been used and improved upon over and over.

Did he come in with the exact tools just after a different person found his way to the vault?  You realize he may have hit that house under previous lives and mapped out the house on castle draft, having an idea of what types of traps to expect.

haha ya gotta love this game

And now even richer!!

I did find the vault but I didn't know the significance of the bottom button to enable the last gate.  I always assumed that the buttons on the right side were a combo lock that would power it ( because wires travel across the hallway).  The only thing I ever got was paintings, but then I returned to suicide in your house hoping to re-steal the bounty, but then the house was very broken.

That is one serious advantage to this house is, once robbed it is extremely broken and requires lots more brute force.  On the other hand, the vault is only 1 wood and 1 explosive at the enterance (who would have thought)

haha that was fast.  That should have been more reinforced but I didn't like doing the self test because it would take forever. lol.

http://castledraft.com/editor/hHRuAT

I just wanted to show a combo lock that separated pairs of buttons.  that is a pretty easy problem to fix

http://castledraft.com/editor/pVi8hY

http://castledraft.com/editor/B3asPu

this isn't scary at all but they wont' know if they got it right until they commit and to go bak they must break it.  Tons of combinations and less than 2k

haha what happened to the money?  I found the vault and was planning on coming back with a ladder!   Yeah I totally was sick of having a good house sitting there doing nothing so I decided to go raiding houses.

can we talk about the mechanics of gas?  It looks ot me like you have built a giant gas maze where there are many deadly paths and only one safe path.  how is it rigged to prevent brute force?

A wiki page describing the various mechanics of the new tiles and tools would probably help FT a bit...

here's all I know so far

* Electric mice run around somewhat like cats.
* Gas machine kills u but you can shoot it with gun
* CAD is a lot like a dog when powered, however you cannot shoot it, but you can torch it with the blowtorch I think (but only 1 tile away)

That is about all I know - yeah I don't know much.