I am sorry, Eric Robert Tso ($50,600 Bounty)

LiteS · 2014-02-21 11:19:08

This happened in my starter house last night around midnight. I had I designed my house to kill suicide robbers and unarmed explorers, generally players with little or no house investment. I did not get to review the tape since my vault didn't have nearly enough defenses for 50k, but I'm assuming he jumped past the "hidden" commitment trap 5 steps from my entrance without tools. I died two hours later trying to build a house, because testing and building a new 50k house full of traps takes me a lot of time, and it was very late.

I had no intention of ruining the game for a player who had an established house. I am sorry.

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jere · 2014-02-21 11:29:21

Weird. Tso kept visiting me last night, maybe a dozen times but never went far. We were both worth about $2k at the time. I'm absolutely shocked at that bounty. That's a bad man.

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LiteS · 2014-02-21 11:33:33

jere wrote:

Weird. Tso kept visiting me last night, maybe a dozen times but never went far. We were both worth about $2k at the time. I'm absolutely shocked at that bounty. That's a bad man.

Yeah, you only had to take 5 steps lock yourself into my house. And on top of that, taking those 5 steps first makes the house unsolvable without tools.

redxaxder · 2014-02-21 11:36:56

I've had a ton of visits from Tso as well. He's a very careful fellow. I imagine you don't plan to reveal how you fooled him.

A similar thing happened to me earlier this week (although it was only a 25k bounty). I walled in a box of pit bulls in the bottom right corner figuring I'd come up with a use for them later.

LiteS · 2014-02-21 13:26:58

I'll reveal the entry lock this afternoon, gonna try to make some cash off it now.

It's nothing special, just a different presentation of old tricks.

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protox13 · 2014-02-21 13:54:31

LiteS wrote:

http://i.imgur.com/FG9K8PR.png
This happened in my starter house last night around midnight. I had I designed my house to kill suicide robbers and unarmed explorers, generally players with little or no house investment. I did not get to review the tape since my vault didn't have nearly enough defenses for 50k, but I'm assuming he jumped past the "hidden" commitment trap 5 steps from my entrance without tools. I died two hours later trying to build a house, because testing and building a new 50k house full of traps takes me a lot of time, and it was very late.
I had no intention of ruining the game for a player who had an established house. I am sorry.

Ha! That was likely me; yes I had no tools, and yes jere, I am a very bad man- I do love to go clubbing with other peoples' wives. I'm also surprised to see my bounty so high, though it does seem about right. Dog on the bottom side behind the glass, right? I'm also guessing you're on the East Coast, as it happened around 9 my time. Sigh.

No need for apologies, though I am very, very sad I lost the house I built over several days and getting rather weary of starting over from scratch. I was getting impatient, got careless, and got what I deserved. Or maybe, as Eastwood once said, "Deserve's got nothing to do with it."

Apologies to the jere, redxaxder, and others whom I kept visiting; it's hard to keep track of who's constantly tinkering with their houses, but I like to visit houses which appear new. I'm (clearly) not a very good robber and dislike risk.

As a token of my esteem and to show I have no hard feelings, LiteS, I'll be emailing you a layout of my house- I've been wanting to share it for some time and get feedback. jere, you're also welcome to take a peek if you're interested. It's a gem that's never been broken and I intend to keep improving and using it, though I hope neither of you will use it against me if you ever run across it.

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LiteS · 2014-02-21 14:49:15

As promised, here's the entry layout. I suppose it's particularly rough against serial explorers because although they're used to this trap, this version happens about 5 steps faster than normal. If you look carefully from the welcome mat you can see the dog.

http://castledraft.com/editor/MzUnRj

TyrannosaurusHax · 2014-02-21 17:33:11

It just goes to show that everybody derps.
I presume that panic button is there instead of a window...but what good would smashing it do?

madame crowbar · 2014-02-21 18:15:27

Eric Robert Tso visited me at least ten times last night. I kept moving my pit bull around the house to trap him.

And here I was, thinking I was special.

redxaxder · 2014-02-21 18:18:49

LiteS, your name is Allen Donald Lindsay.

I just spent many steps in your house and didn't do much of anything. What's my name?

LiteS · 2014-02-21 18:36:58

redxaxder wrote:

LiteS, your name is Allen Donald Lindsay.
I just spent many steps in your house and didn't do much of anything. What's my name?

John Julius Fields.

Edit: Thax, Yeah, a window would probably be better.

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rcmike · 2014-02-21 19:16:07

Yeah Tso get visiting me last night as well. I was getting worried.

Leveller · 2014-02-23 11:33:34

Is there any uppe limit how much a person can get bountied for? Imho making a semi-secure house go on a clubbin spree and then die at a friends house...

colorfusion · 2014-02-23 11:36:26

Leveller wrote:

Is there any uppe limit how much a person can get bountied for? Imho making a semi-secure house go on a clubbin spree and then die at a friends house...

The hard part would be going on a clubbing spree. You need a lot of money, and it's probably pretty hard to find suitable houses where there's no commitment trap and there are children out in the open.

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Leveller · 2014-02-23 11:48:56

II would say 1 in 5 houses had family fairly close to the door.

LiteS · 2014-02-25 21:03:59

Not meaning to necrobump but I gotta say it's pretty flattering to see that entry design 100% replicated in some houses, especially with the panic button instead of THax's cheaper window option.

Amatiel · 2014-02-25 22:33:49

There are many variants of that floating around, including one that traps you between a fleeing shotgun toting wife and a pitbull. Ive died to these clever variances of them maybe three times.

I used this one myself for a while, but retired it in favour of traps that preserve a robbers tools... I cant have him wasting them when he can be giving them to me can I?

http://castledraft.com/editor/Ok0wZ6

LiteS · 2014-02-25 23:16:39

Amatiel wrote:

There are many variants of that floating around, including one that traps you between a fleeing shotgun toting wife and a pitbull. Ive died to these clever variances of them maybe three times.
I used this one myself for a while, but retired it in favour of traps that preserve a robbers tools... I cant have him wasting them when he can be giving them to me can I?
http://castledraft.com/editor/Ok0wZ6

Nice. With that sort of trap it's best to either go big like you did or small like I did, because at the medium sizes that trap is pretty easy to detect

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