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Power source connected directly to sticky switch which in turn is directly connected to trap door. Yet you press the sticky switch and the trap door does not activate:

Being in the "middle class" in this game kinda of sucks. You don't have the money to do brute force assaults on the rich and yet you also aren't poor enough to try risky robberies so all you really do is sit on your ass and tend to your castle twice a day using the money from the new victims to improve your defenses while taking care to leave at least a little bit more than 2k in the vault to attract more victims. Eventually you get to the point where the whole available area is filled with your contraptions of death, so you cease improving your home by expanding it and start improving it with little tweaks; push that corridor two tiles to the left, make a smaller trap more complicated to defuse, add some 'wall dogs' here and there... You make every single barely significant change you can do to make your home more secure until you just look at it and conclude that you have reached the limits of what can be done with something that gradually grew from a primitive and very linear design, if you want to make a better deathtrap you need to scrape everything and rebuild from a blank. But you can't erase your home, not just because you don't have the funds to rebuild, but also because you have spend much time and thought on it and most of it's halls still lie unexplored because all the burglars so far have died in the 1st or 2nd sections, you don't want to erase it before someone goes and sees what you built in the 3rd, 4th and 5th sections. When you watch the first tapes of other players dying it is hilarious, but it gets old, especially when they are dying in the exact same places, in the exact same manners and for the exact same errors, one after another after another. You look at the items they are carrying and you know who they are, they are either the guy on a fresh new life trying his luck with his 2k worth of gear or the guy without items that has just lost everything and is on a desperate attempt to save his home, you've been on both places and you feel bad for them (a bit guilty even). Then you catch yourself rooting for that one guy who managed to get past your first section with a very clever solution that you didn't even predict (Killing the pitbull with the very trap that was meant to kill him! Brilliant!), but because he didn't solve the trap in the way you designed it to be solved your countermeasures kick in and the second section becomes unsolvable and the clever guy is now trapped dead there. You realize that none of those clever little guys is going to get past your defenses because you designed them with the express intent of pushing cleverness out of the picture and leaving room only for guesswork. You know that one day your castle will fall, but you also know that it won't fall because someone will outsmart your carefully engineered traps, it will fall because it will become so bloated with the money of the poorer players that it will attract the attention of the few ones who can afford to spend so much money on items as to the point where they can break absolutely any security system without even having to set their minds to it too hard. That's when you realize that you're just another player who's stuck in the middle class.

Frankly, this is very frustrating.