Question - Why would you ever want a High Deaths to Entry amount?

Drakol · 2014-02-05 03:08:10

Hey guys,

I wanted to ask if anyone keeps a high score - Deaths to Entry amount.
It seems silly to me, to not reset the counter with modifications, or in my case, moving my safe to a completely different part of the map.
So that the number goes back to 0/0. Personally, I see much better opportunities if you have money and you have a score of 20(Entries)/3(deaths).
It lures people into your house, then you reset it, after you get to a scary amount of deaths to entry ratio.

Just wanted to know how you guys deal with this, or if you think about the psychological pressure it puts on people, etc. To rob or stay away from your house.

setz · 2014-02-05 07:58:19

You definitely become more of a target the higher your e/d ratio is but also people are a bit more frightened as well. Its an interesting balance as some people ONLY enter 0/0 houses or 3/0 houses but others like to try and find success where many fail.

One tactic I use for trying to find houses to scout is when there e/d ratio is like 30/7 for example. It shows that the house doesn't just trap you in right away and is at least attempt-able while still being able to leave without dying.

GoogleFrog · 2014-02-05 08:43:13

I like houses with high deaths or entries because it implies that the house was built with less money. The deaths generate money so it must have been built to store quite a bit less money. Houses with a ridiculous number of deaths are a worry though because they are likely to be broken.

largestherb · 2014-02-05 08:48:24

i like the house with going on 2000 break-ins.

SmokestormX · 2014-02-05 10:18:05

largestherb wrote:

i like the house with going on 2000 break-ins.

William Cameron Williams, atm his house is in ruin , dead dogs litter the ground , the vault is empty and the wife is in a far off corner with her shotgun waiting

largestherb · 2014-02-05 10:38:09

SmokestormX wrote:

largestherb wrote:
i like the house with going on 2000 break-ins.
William Cameron Williams, atm his house is in ruin , dead dogs litter the ground , the vault is empty and the wife is in a far off corner with her shotgun waiting

noo, jeff williams!

DaVinci · 2014-02-05 11:25:50

Every death means the people that has a brain failed.

It's like saying "7 million people tried doing this but they failed, how do I success??".

A hope-breaker.

joshwithguitar · 2014-02-05 15:12:54

With my last house I would regularly self test just to reset the counter to 0/0.

ladida · 2014-02-05 15:39:34

Before my reset today I had a 50k house with 114/100. The "visitation" rate didnt chance that much over time. Robbers were monstly not equipped or tooled-up with starting money.

Remember that its not the same house with 0/0 or 10/0 or 10/10 or more. Ok, the traps stay the same, but the value increases with more kills. Youll get potentially more for less tools when the counter is hight, because the money hasnt been invested in new traps or walls or whatever. A 3k value house with 0/0 can be a horrifying fortress. And a 40k value house with 100/67 was possibly build 2 days ago with a very low budget.. GET IT

Drakol · 2014-02-05 18:56:41

joshwithguitar wrote:

With my last house I would regularly self test just to reset the counter to 0/0.

This is something I did do... Until I goofed up my wiring and electricuted myself - Sorry for all the people who entered my house and died.
It was one of those Vault - Leap of Faith traps right in front of the door, with two to four trap doors, that if you killed the dogs, the vault doesn't open at the end.

I won't be describing it in detail, cause no one actually managed to breach the thing, I just goofed up and died randomly, cause of a bad wire job...

protox13 · 2014-02-05 19:03:58

Because I can bust me out some Ozymandias and say, "Look on my works, and despair!"

I've reset a lot to tweak and refine my current layout, but the basic layout has killed anyone who has committed (granted, only one guy came well-equipped, but he wasted his tool and went in the wrong direction anyway).

iceman · 2014-02-05 19:38:30

protox13 wrote:

Because I can bust me out some Ozymandias and say, "Look on my works, and despair!"

"Nothing beside remains.
Boundless and bare,
the lone and leveled houses
stretch far away..."

protox13 · 2014-02-05 19:59:20

iceman wrote:

protox13 wrote:
Because I can bust me out some Ozymandias and say, "Look on my works, and despair!"
"Nothing beside remains.
Boundless and bare,
the lone and leveled houses
stretch far away..."

Appropriate, no?

cbenny · 2014-02-05 20:28:49

I reset my house as often as I can. People seem far more likely to click on lower numbers.

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