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#126 Main Forum » death order? » 2015-01-10 23:28:16

JAAM
Replies: 14

so how does the order of death occur?

since everything is divided into steps is pet death separated from player death? if so which happens first?

#127 Main Forum » A pet memory unit » 2015-01-10 17:32:39

JAAM
Replies: 0

So I honostly can not find a use for this but I thought it was a fun concept a cat runs 1 step from another pets corpse due to cat logic it can never again step on the tile next to the corpse. Also a cat located next to 2 dead cats such as below is completly immobile again I have no clue how this could be used but it's fun to point out cats are the only animal completly incapable of stepping near dead pets (though pitbulls kill you in the process.

Immobile cat

OEE
EXE
EEO

O is a dead cat
X is live cat

Cat of no return

WWW
OXEE
WWW

O is a dead cat
X is a live cat
W is a wall

#128 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-10 17:14:47

I'm tempted to try and gift you the funds to get on your feet amwhy but I still wish to learn your secrets... Thus the guy that burst in with 5 saws forgetting he needed the drugs. Then letting himself die by dog instead of escape.

#129 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-10 13:46:51

AMWhy wrote:

So which one of you is Luna? Luna robbed Albrecht (I think that was my name, it's been a while!). Brute forced, unfortunately.  No one besides Eppfel ever got passed the first trap.  Still, it was nice to see a video that wasn't 4-steps: fry or 7/8 steps:doggy suicide. Enjoy your $140k. Finally I can start robbing again without fear of losing it all! Albrechts bounty will be donated to the first intersting house I see.  The house will not be revealed as the entrance, originally created to generate quick cash to attack Smith before he fell, has proved very lethal and hard to solve.  Expect a tougher version as soon as I can raise the funds to build it!

i loved that house i wasent sure what was going on my plan was to gather the cash to force my way into the dance and learn enough about it to determine what needed to be done. sad to see it go...

#130 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-10 10:49:34

oh lol davidsons the guy? im near finished with his house im compiling a list of materials to break the place. despite combo lock.

#131 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-10 10:09:20

i'm not too appreciative of the complete tool spam on houses. while i have only been hit once i think. (unbreakable house that totally deserved it) some of these houses were actually nice puzzles i was enjoying solving. i had almost completed several for under 2K.  The only house i would say ever deserved it was the robles house that was multiple combo locks mixed with several guess the door bullshit. This isn't how we keep new players interested in the game guys.

very few of the houses i saw hit (and left up so perhaps there were many many more...) had any combo lock in them (to my current exploration)

#132 Re: Main Forum » All hope is lost » 2015-01-10 10:01:49

lol that 2nd one was me just derping around i had no clue as to where i should be going and was on cooldown everywhere else i had gone in a few times so i wanted to scout out what i thought might be possible exits and or dead ends. guess which of those i found...
EDIT
wait no that wasn't me I did have a go with 2 crowbars and some other materials though. i also remember guessing your dance somewhere in there but i'm pretty sure i was just derping again.

#133 Re: Main Forum » A 1 time Rob » 2015-01-09 07:47:05

Well it looks you all are having a fun time destroying my house after someone broke it using a ladder club and 9 saws (I'm assuming the ladder was bought so 3900) not bad to assault this place. Someone else (perhaps the same guy) came in and stopped all the doors so I think I'm gonna wait until most of it is destroyed or unusable before restarting.

Still not sure who I pissed off.

#134 Re: Main Forum » A 1 time Rob » 2015-01-08 19:28:01

ahh so who was it that planned to wreck my house using door stops? killed my daughter to try and save it but when you came in the house had already been broken, by you... you jerk. you came in with 2k tools to wreck the place after you robbed me for 8$. thats pitiful mate.

9 door stops and a club to wreck the place that you already broke into just for funsies. now that points out a jerk.  fortunately for me no matter how hard you try now and how much of my family you kill in the process you aren't getting past the first door...
now i typically don't call someone out on being a massive dick but this douchbaggary i will not stand for.
Good Day Mates.

#135 Main Forum » Disconnect scouts. » 2015-01-08 17:57:47

JAAM
Replies: 1

so i've seen it mentioned a few times and while im not a fan of the principle how does a disconnect scout work?
i understand how it is done you force yourself to lose connection while scouting to prevent the house owner from viewing the tapes. but what happens to the tools? if i bring in 1K tools and blow em all on walls only to d/c when the owner comes back will he find all of those tools in his inventory? also is this a similar result to going AFK for 5 min or getting killed by 'cops'?

While i find the videos to be some of the most satisfactory things in the game and hate to rob people of them i do want to know the details of this since i've seen it used a few times.

#136 Re: Main Forum » A 1 time Rob » 2015-01-08 16:00:23

Passive wrote:
JAAM wrote:
mala wrote:

i'm curious about that... how can it became unsolvable after the first successful robbery?

what's your name btw?

not sure on my name tbh

its actually really simple and i can't believe no one used before (unless it has and i'm unaware). At the beginning a cat sees you runs down hits a button that opens all the doors then dies on an electric plate. You can rob the vault (its just a strait shot no gimmicks). after that the cats dead and the map is saved as is so the button can not be pressed to open the door and thus no vault for you.  just for my own joy i made it exceptionally hard to break through so you must spend a lot of money to break open the doors.

I currently have 16$, wife and kids at the door, cat visible over some pits at the entrance, all next to a powered door.

You are Michael Samuel Ackerman. Has been done before, Eppfel had a very sucsseful one that needed a cat to close a trapdoor, but once it was done once was every expensive too get round. I like the ones that leave a dog right at the door so that first step people get eaten. Most people don't even think and just step out big_smile


yeah i figured it was simple enough to have been thought of already. I did make a quick castle draft of the layout though for ya http://castledraft.com/editor/KgeRQO

i do enjoy the dog ones too but figure they are mostly done by accident i guess i could make one that is done on purpose but it would be a fair bit of work for something defeated with a single meat. unless i go about making that the only path.... (new designs being drafted.)

#137 Re: Main Forum » A 1 time Rob » 2015-01-08 15:50:46

mala wrote:

i'm curious about that... how can it became unsolvable after the first successful robbery?

what's your name btw?

not sure on my name tbh

its actually really simple and i can't believe no one used before (unless it has and i'm unaware). At the beginning a cat sees you runs down hits a button that opens all the doors then dies on an electric plate. You can rob the vault (its just a strait shot no gimmicks). after that the cats dead and the map is saved as is so the button can not be pressed to open the door and thus no vault for you.  just for my own joy i made it exceptionally hard to break through so you must spend a lot of money to break open the doors.

I currently have 16$, wife and kids at the door, cat visible over some pits at the entrance, all next to a powered door.

#138 Main Forum » A 1 time Rob » 2015-01-07 20:14:51

JAAM
Replies: 11

so i just finished a little bit of robbing and i had a bit of inspiration what about a 1 time rob-able house?

so i went and built one that can not be robbed more than once with less than 2k tools. Its simple and doesn't really contain any actual traps but it should be a nice proof of concept for me.

If anything it should be funny to watch all of you get frustrated at it.

Edit

Oh and thank you to whoever it was that disconnected with a 2.3K bounty in my empty starter house after somebody already tole 1K from it you left me just enough to successfully rob my target.

Currently have 27$ come have a gander.

ok guys why must you confuse me so I have 3 bounties in my place that contains no actual traps. 1 was a 2300 bounty from a guy 1 step suiciding in my empty starter house. i can understand that shit happens. another was an unarmed scout that walked in and fell into a pit. another was a 600 bounty from a guy again, taking 4 steps and walking into a pit.

THIS HOUSE IS NOT A PUZZLE OR A MAZE OR A DEATH TRAP it is a simple proof of concept for a one time rob-able house. while i graciously accept your bounties to use for upgrades and add ons don't test the effectivness of my pits because yes they are deadly.

#139 Re: Main Forum » Wow a lot has changed! » 2015-01-07 20:11:53

Americans17 wrote:

Im gonna start playing again, from what i think its a 6 or 8 months break. Has anything really changed? or its just the same game with no changes at all?
Edit: Just tryed it 5 min and from what i see only a bunch of houses (20 maybe? i dunno) from the 100+ that were 10 months ago. I think it's not worth it.

Is worth it while there may only be 20 or so there there are some tough ones in that bunch i myself may have just built a 1 time rob house (its not tricky but its going to be funny watching people get frustrated with it.) Trust me stick with it.

#140 Re: Main Forum » Who is Pepin, and is he a map hacker? » 2015-01-02 09:35:31

is this how its going to be? right after i fix my house yo come in to wreck it mostly for spite? i fix my house you will burst in and wreck it to get to my vault?
you even opened up a path so leaving it broken isn't viable. that was a lot of tools to burn in hopes to find my vault succesfully. and next time if you make it could you not burn off the rest of your tools on my pets? i already rebuilt so i guess you can walk in and do it tooless this time if you want but its not worth the large quantity that you bring in regularly.

#141 Re: Main Forum » Who is Pepin, and is he a map hacker? » 2015-01-01 10:41:49

それはトラップである wrote:

It is doing good business as a broken house since there is now no way to get beyond the pit short of explosives x 2 or a ladder. Most of the tools were dropped in my house so I ended up breaking even more or less. My design tends to garner a lot of tools from $2K robbers.

Yeah i was wondering about how it might do broken ill let it gather a few decent bounties before going back and fixing it up.
Your house probobly rakes in all of the tools from 2k scouters who can't make it past that entrance. lots of dog meat i suppose in my case i always tried bricks but they didnt seem to work either.

#142 Re: Main Forum » Who is Pepin, and is he a map hacker? » 2014-12-31 23:20:03

それはトラップである wrote:
JAAM wrote:

Btw what was my name?

Christopher Brian Evans

Yeah when i asked for my name you didn't need to launch a full scale attack against my house congrats though your the 2nd to make it. Might need to reinforce it somehow but i still don't think you got your tools worth back considering that was almost all cash. Not sure if i should be pleased someone figured it out or upset that it was that easy. either way nice job. I think i have the funds to patch it up but i may leave it for now until i feel focused enough to. it'll be up again soon though i promise that. not enough funds to change it again though. Humph.

#143 Re: Main Forum » Wow a lot has changed! » 2014-12-31 14:54:35

Stooled wrote:

Just rejoin after a while without playing, so like 4 months, and its sad to say one of my favorites games has withered down to only 6 or so homes! I still play I just wish others would too!
See ya on my tapes!- Stooled

A lot has changed but i'd say it's doing better than it has when i joined there was only 1 page of houses and that wasn't entirely filled. So things could be worse...

Welcome back to the party!

#144 Re: Main Forum » Wilbur Steven Wallace » 2014-12-31 07:31:06

yeah. some people are just ***** but what can ya do hopefully he taught you something about your design.

#145 Re: Main Forum » Wilbur Steven Wallace » 2014-12-30 18:25:08

looks like the same guy hit the Keenen residence everything possible to destroy for 2K was taken out then the vault must have been hit.

#146 Re: Main Forum » Wilbur Steven Wallace » 2014-12-30 17:47:05

Lol  thats you passive? i visited several times and figured out how to break into the vault but figured it wasent worth possibly screwing up so i left it. nice place though couple of good tricks in that dance but its too easy to figure out. you need a commit or something to stop people from discovering the whole sequence

#147 Re: Main Forum » Who is Pepin, and is he a map hacker? » 2014-12-30 10:47:28

eppfel wrote:
JAAM wrote:

Yep that was me some nice scouting you did there i knew that dog was clubbable but hadnt yet aquired the fund to fix it so i left it there otherwise that scouting trip would have been much shorter. The final room was kinda just a whim i had its not necessary giant waste of space thats only just deadly if you screw it up.

The dog can still be clubbed. And the pet room was a lot of fun, so no waste at all wink

curses i just watched that i would have sworn it was fixed humph ill have to test it more next time.

Fixed for good this time not sure though i think it may be possible to just hit that dog with a meat and escape but it dosent help you get anything

Btw what was my name?

#148 Re: Main Forum » Who is Pepin, and is he a map hacker? » 2014-12-30 10:12:33

eppfel wrote:

The Pepin design was around for some time now, right? Until now I was too lazy to figure out the entrance.

JAAM wrote:

im trying something new have a little house up that gives you a nice clean shot at the vault (or did until a recent update) through several powered doors with toggle switches on em and a little death trap that goes down into the rest of the house.

If your house crawls with chiwas and cats, I think I got to your vault just now. But $1000 is not worth robbing, so I left it intact. It was great fun solving it! I think there should be more designs that rely on some trickery, but are not just uncrackable like Smith was.

Yep that was me some nice scouting you did there i knew that dog was clubbable but hadnt yet aquired the fund to fix it so i left it there otherwise that scouting trip would have been much shorter. The final room was kinda just a whim i had its not necessary giant waste of space thats only just deadly if you screw it up. Those were some fun videos to watch though and i will have to throw in some new upgrades before i get any more cash and you decide to rob me

#149 Re: Main Forum » Who is Pepin, and is he a map hacker? » 2014-12-30 02:13:18

それはトラップである wrote:
JAAM wrote:

yeah your pepin i do hate that design something interesting going on in that entrance and i cant figure it out. i swear that dog commit at the end of the entrance is a fake...

At least it is more interesting than some damn linear magic dance or combo lock. Makes for more variation on the tapes.

Agreed its very different. and i like it but damn so much going on. im trying something new have a little house up that gives you a nice clean shot at the vault (or did until a recent update) through several powered doors with toggle switches on em and a little death trap that goes down into the rest of the house. The results are amazing. Everybody is too scared of those doors to pass them strait to my vault. I guess i could have hooked up some memory circuit or something to trap them but it was too irritating to make so i left it out as sort of a decoy. everyone took the bait. most flee into the trap and die there. The vault was visible from the damn door mat and everyone ignored the safe rout. i've actually incorporated another way through to the vault just to give the people a chance. and if you have a decent bit of cash and hate combo-locks as much as the next person you should trash Robles place, The place is one massive combo lock split into several sections. I give him an E for efficiency but dang its like a noob's starter house on crack. The thing needs to be removed entirely from the server for good.

#150 Re: Main Forum » Who is Pepin, and is he a map hacker? » 2014-12-30 00:21:51

any clue on your name? id love to take a peek. Just a peek of corse because for the first time in a month i have a stable house im determined not to lose.

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