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i feel like it was a plot in diagnosis murder. a vietnam veteran and policeman with ptsd bricked his wife and child up in his house because he thought it would keep them safe...

must've been quite amusing to find someone in the wall in this game anyway!

oh no, runaway family again! wife has fluffed off with the investigating officer!

majority of steam buyers will probably not even be aware of the ability to purchase the game from its own website, i doubt many steamies will even think about having more than one account.

i purchased a second account a long time ago because i found watching people try and solve my dances and button pushing thingies way too interesting. i didn't want to die foolishly and miss out on all the potential tapes!

it became a tool of revenge after 'the great laddering' when one user went through every house that featured 100000000000000000 trapdoors (pretty much every house at the time) and laddered them up.
it then became a means of further exploration as some very intriguing houses popped up that i just had to get in and see how they worked.
as of late it has mostly been just to poke around and carelessly rob attempt a robbery on every house in the neighbourhood.

byron died off due to forgetting that power supplies are flat which lead to an unfortunate incident with a cat sleeping on top of one at a very inopportune moment, so there is no impenetrable temple right now. although a house has popped up on the list that looks very much like it. that old 'gotta see how it works' bug is crawling around my ankles looking for a place to bite..

aaaaaaaanyway, i brought up the dual account question a while ago and jason didn't think it was an issue at the time. i can potentially see it changing, it all depends what our new steam friends get up to!

there is one house right now that looks like it is a dog dance and a combo lock at the same time.

the cost of tools make it so even a wooden fortress is pretty much impenetrable. combo locks can be brute forced, but you're going to need like $300,000 worth of tools to make sure you don't end up one crowbar short of victory, or whatever.

cost of building is pretty good right now, feels pretty balanced. cost of robbing is.. well.

i could always go back on my promise and lay waste to these impenetrable houses

ooh dogs wont jump on them to eat you. i was wondering how you were editing without moving that dog! aha. interesting stuff.

i have given my house a renovation!

some other problems this house is showcasing and possible solutions..

can't disable indicator lights ~ water/club/crowbar to break those suckers! (i've discovered i'm not a fan of tiles that can't be broken )

dogge can't pass panic button, but will jump on it to eat you. ~ unsure if this is a huge problem, replaces the old dead cat in a pit kind of thing, i guess. hmm. button dog button dog button dog button dog.. bit boring family defence

oh no, don't get me wrong. money is slow and hard and tools are.. almost not worth the spend if you don't know what is behind that door that costs $2400 to crack open. could be another power door.

in the last incarnation of the game, with the player and wife earning 'hourly' money, there was still no/very little money going around. because the people who had a 'secure' house could safely count their coins, and the moment any home of a poorer person started to look a bit too rich, the rich person would come along and completely obliterate it - without thinking about the cost, because money didn't matter.

it was like this

TOP HOUSE > crushes any house below it at all costs, spending to $0 if necessary, because their wages will just roll in safely.
OTHER HOUSE > starting cash is too wank to even think about cracking the top house, starting cash was too wank to build a house that could survive the wrath of the top house.

as jason said, the wages just lead to mass turtling, and once a king turtle or two are established, it is almost impossible for anyone else to get near them. however this is also possibly just a problem with low player numbers as well..

the low population is definitely making the game hard. hard to play without getting frustrated/bored at the lack of content/cash, hard to develop/design as.. well, it is hard to tell what would happen if there were, as you say, even 50 fairly active players would be shockingly different, i think.

including my house i count eight houses right now. that is the most houses i've seen in the neighbourhood for a very long time

this excites me a lot and made me download the game.

let the family buttons that must be pushed in order puzzle game commence!

i missed a few changes, but i do like doing these house evolution things.

http://imgur.com/a/DEgbB

eeh, ignore that super-old house at the end

i purchased more than one account because the 'risk vs reward' for venturing into a house just didn't thrill me at all. and at the same time i didn't want to have to sit doing nothing or not have a house and just try to rob people.
and that hasn't changed.. in fact i think it has gotten worse. it is so easy to get trapped in a house now, you're looking at a gun + ladder + brick/water to get back past even one of those dog/grid/pit thingies.

i quite liked the permadeath server, because having more than one account didn't help you at all.. it gave you another life in case you messed up, but that was about it. ..is the permadeath server still around?

there were quite a few top-dog houses and i am pretty sure i didn't break all of them. i definitely broke another one that had come in and robbed me.

haha, my comment before was back when you could make $100,000 out of nowhere in about ten minutes with very little risk. i definitely think tools not going in the vault after you run out of a house would have prevented me from acquiring such a huge mess of tools..

i mean, i live in a neighbourhood in the suburbs of london that is relatively calm, the shootings and stabbings and car fires are all a few minutes walk away. we had a gnome in our garden. one day it wasn't there any more.
we put out a hallow e'en pumpkin one year. one night the pumpkin was no longer there. and the table it had been sitting on. but apparently my parent put the table out hoping it wouldn't be there any more. so basically people will steal anything, even if it is a good 12ft inside your property boundary.

now running out of the house, dropping your tools as you flee? in THIS neighbourhood?! those tools are not going to be there when you get home. - maybe you have convinced your partner to scan the garden every 30 minutes to check for free tools.. but some people's partners have been horribly murdered in a club related accident.

so, what are the current rules for robber tools going to the vault?

death within the house - this makes sense, pile of tools on a corpse just laying there. or hanging. or in a pit. or melted onto a metal grid :s
reaching the vault - this makes sense too, dumping your bag of its tools to refill it with dollars and paintings and.. uh, some tools in the vault that must be worth more than your cheap-ass tools you brought.
running out of the door screaming like a baby and dropping your bag in the doorway in what is possibly the worst neighbourhood in the world - i think maybe if your partner is alive, a 50% chance they get them before someone else does. but if they are dead, i'd say a 100% chance of someone else coming along and taking them to the pawn shop.

i'll promise to stop abusing the current tool-drop system for now and stick to robbing with just the starter cash and whatever i can build up through subsequent robberies. i'll also go see if the permadeath server is alive and has any residents!

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