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So is Harris. But I rose again, and quick.

Well, fuck. I'm dead... There goes all that work to a misstep. I meant to cut that wire.

I may pull out all my alt-scout records of crazyace's house now to try and get the vault.

Yeah, I was surprised how far my alt scout got into Hahn's place; I knew all his weak spots from a single scouting trip!

As for my alt use, I currently have a single alt which I use to scout. Frankly, though, my alt has only been useful in mapping one place so far, and I haven't even cracked it just yet. Most of the others would have cost lower than $2k to scout out as far as my alt did, and with zero risk at that cost as well. Overall, an alt is useful, but it's easily possible to pull off major heists without it; as a matter of fact, my first robbery against Scott had no previous alt scouting, and that one worked like a dream.

I just robbed Mr. Hahn, who had about $20k and 5 paintings. Thank you sir for making such an easy-to-cut-through lock, which was also easy to reach! Redface is a nice piece of art.

Oh. Well, if you did have the chance to get (good) art, would you take it?

I'm back on the front page again, after guessing a magic dance with my alt and cashing in with my main. Dear Mr. Nobles: having two sets of two buttons, one space apart, is not very hard to break.

I hope that you don't try to get the collection back so I don't have to worry about you. After seeing the short work you made of LightS's house, I'm a bit worried.
Also, don't move your vault either. It's old position served you just fine, didn't it?

Just in case anybody missed it, I robbed Hebert and have 80 now. I think Malone may be the next target, unless anybody has spotted some other nice collections.
I just robbed Mr. Hahn for 5 more paintings and some good money. I'm not sure who's next, honestly.

Actually, I just realized that Buckley has the final painting in the Sarsaparilla set that I have two of. I may rob him for that, but I wouldn't want to be paid for it.
It's sort of crazy that I'm not able to remember which paintings I have anymore.

I have $42k right now, and after some robberies that I might try later (if I get some good scout info) I might have even more.
Also, that's why I hate robbing cheap houses. I always am too confident and die to stupid dog commits or wife-pincers.

Flicker's nice and all, but not worth the risk of robbing you just yet. I can't really do much to you, as my alt has chills on your place and you're pretty low on my list anyways.
As for Jorgensen, I'm trying to save collecting the shit paintings till the very end. Why have any of Beebe's when it's not part of an all-painting collection?

I don't have a throne just yet, only a bunch of art and traps. And you had the one thing I that I lost and could never get back: A family. I have a certain Mr. Hamblin to thank for the deaths of mine.
I also have one quick building tip for you: Don't let a couple saws skip lots of your trap. I don't know if your correct route just went upwards briefly or all the way to the top of your house, but one saw let me past all that and to your final combo lock.

Just a quick question: why don't you try to get any paintings?

Often, as I don't have much trouble easily getting to $10k+, I'll often bring full kits to robberies after very little scouting. Herbert's place, for example, pretty much required that I look through the first door to scout his entrance. From what I saw, I would need to tool up against electric floors, wired walls, and possibly dogs, but wasn't worried about too many pits standing in my way: as there were none in the entrance, I assumed that there would be few later on. Thus, I loaded up with a big kit and simply started cutting my way through.

With many houses that have one or more pit-commits or dog-commits before their true entrance, I often ignore them unless they have paintings. For example, I'd rather not waste lots of meat and ladders to scout out Lopez's place only to discover that there's a secure magic dance or combo lock behind all of it, have to leave, then re-buy all the tools to get to the dance plus the tools to crack it; it's just too much money spent to only earn pure cash.

As for how many paintings I look for, it depends. Once I saw that Herbert had the rest of the Dermatillomanian set, my favorite paintings in the game, he became a must-rob, and would have been even if those were his only two paintings. However, Kane and Ward, for example, have pretty secure houses and only a couple paintings, which I don't even like that much. I'll probably wait on robbing them until I'm in the home stretch, nearing 100% painting ownership, which is pretty far away. There are 155 total, I think, and I only have 80 right now, and it's getting harder to get them as there are lots of houses with only one or two. However, any house in the double digits for paintings is probably what I'd look for about now. I can't seem to find any, though.

'Sup. So is your place just dog commits the whole way, or is there some surprising new trap hidden behind all those pits, electric floors, buttons, and dogs?
Also, just so you feel safe and don't target me, I can tell you that you're firmly off my robbing list. I don't want your cash, especially at the risk it brings.

I just checked something and am pretty shocked. Other than Mr. Kane and Mr. Ward, none of the top 8 houses posses paintings! And the two of them only have 5 between them!
Why don't these top houses, who have so much money, buy a single painting?