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You can just play at the level that you find comforting. Nobody forces you to go to top 8 houses where it is hard to survive (almost impossible). But that's like in other games - how do you think you would compete in Counter Strike (or any other game) against the best players of the world? (actually in TCD it is much easier to get to the top).

Everybody will fall - this is not a game where you should be protected for months. You will lose your house very often, you will die and you will be angry about it because it took you so long to figure out this clever house that you had and now it's gone. But even though you died in game the life goes on and you can build another house - that's what this game is about: building houses, robbing houses and dying

Use your imagination to make this game fun for you if you are sad about not being able to get to the top: build houses that are fun to solve for robbers or fun to watch security tapes. Don't try to think that your house is supposed to survive - it's supposed to fall.

I have job and family and I'm still able to enjoy this game very much (without some "impractical measures"), because I have simply accepted the fact that my house is just temporary.

How did you do that?! I couldn't find a way around that light

Ah so the other way around - robber could leave message to the house owner on the security tape before dying :-)

I thought so :-) I completely understand reasons behind that - so never mind :-)

Your base will have as much money as you looted (tools are also counted).

It's not that profitable as you think - B will probably die very soon as house with $50 does not need to be starter house (it can be house with assets worth of $30000). It is not sustainable to play this way. As we said earlier - there is nothing you can do about it. Everything can be circumvented and no matter how much time Jason would invest into solving this it would not work as people would use proxies to have different IPs on different accounts. There is no way to pair those as they look like 2 different people from 2 different parts of the world.

This was opened several times and the thing is that there is no way to fix that without restricting regular players. If you have brother that also plays the game you can share the info as well, but you don't have to. Should you both be blocked from entering the same house, because you have the same IP? You can also share connection with your neighbors having the same IP. And still you can have friend with different IP and share the house information. There is basically no way around that. Yes it is quite unfair to the players with single account, but still it's not that abusable as you would think - thanks to the chills and force ignores.

I came up with something like this in my old house:
http://castledraft.com/editor/iE3w4C

When you step on the bottom left electric floor it is hard to get out. If you cut the wall you will be fried from the side where dog is - because you will break paradox circuit which will then start powering the electric floors from the bottom right side through the wire bridge. If you cut the electric floor in front of you the electric floors behind you will not be activated but everything in front of you will be and once you move the dog will hit the button and activate even the electric floors from behind you. The dog also closes door in front of him so the robber really needs to get through all of the electric floors. It is quite hard to brute force and it costs only $1200. 90% of people died on this one.

Great! V33 is coming right now

Hm. That's a good idea. I like it. And it probably wouldn't even be that hard to implement. Anyone is up to the task? I would be able to implement it for Android, but I don't have iPhone so somebody else would have to do that for iPhone.

I have the basic server up and running - it is accessible by default game client so no custom build is needed. Currently it's set to default values like the main server. I still don't have forums running and I don't want to clutter tcd forums, but I wanted to let you know so you can send me an email with your email address if you would like access to the server (click on my name to the left and then Send email). I will reply back with the reflectorUrl.ini file and your login data and instructions how to get your client to connect to this server as soon as I can. If you would like to see some special changes to the server (like lower prices or so) let me know and if enough people will want the same change I will change it. As I want this server to be completely free the first change I will probably do will be self-register page so you can register without me. I know it's not very good solution as everyone can have as many accounts as they want, but I'm not sure how to solve it differently yet (suggestions are welcome).
Currently the server is empty so there is no one to rob from so we will see how this will go.
Forums will come soon.

To do "deductive reasoning and puzzle solving" you first need to learn what's possible, what are the basic components of this game, what kind of traps can be made, what puzzles are usually used, etc.. after that you can use deductive reasoning and puzzle solving. There is usually only one way to do that - go and die to traps that you didn't know were possible to make. You can also read wiki and sticky threads on this forum to get better idea of what's possible and what to look for when robbing houses.

Clocks are entirely possible and there are few threads on this forum about them - here is the latest one: http://thecastledoctrine.net/forums/vie … php?id=944

I highly recommend to go through the guides on the wiki: http://thecastledoctrine.gamepedia.com/ … trine_Wiki
The one talking about clocks: http://thecastledoctrine.gamepedia.com/ … lectronics
There is also nice guide about clocks on the wiki by joshwithguitar: http://thecastledoctrine.gamepedia.com/Clocks_Guide