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My money is on checkerboard pits/concrete. I thought about this for a while; here's my reasoning:

All pits is expensive to cross ($1800/tile), but presents a big problem. The robber can see all the way across the giant pit, can rule out vault locations, and will probably opt to go around the pits. You can't do dogs + pits, so you'd end up with dogs + concrete. But that's about the same price to pass as all concrete.

With pits/concrete, you're splitting the difference and forcing an average buy of $1500/tile.

You could also try something the robber isn't expecting like steel walls or powered doors. I've done checkerboard doors/power and that's pretty good because crowbars are rare and robbers don't tend to bring that many. Slightly cheaper at $1250/tile.

I could go on forever on this one. Since TCD is a roguelike, let me just give a shout out to 7DRL 2014. It's coming up in a couple weeks and there will probably be hundreds free roguelikes coming out of that; I'm sure some will be really interesting and innovative. So keep an eye on that. Maybe you could even write one yourself! I did it last year and am planning on participating again this year.

New mechanic: steal walls.

Yup. http://thecastledoctrine.net/forums/vie … php?id=784

Neat!!!

If you wanted the robber to have a reasonable chance of finding them, you could make it so the paintings have to have a "clear path to the exit" like the family. That would probably make the family area more cozy anyway.

^^Yea in retrospect, the early versions were so broken. You're looking at a magic dance 29 tiles away PLUS the trapdoor hallway has zero weaknesses.

Yea it's quite strange how quickly this thing exploded.

Just realized a happy coincidence.

V33 Going beyond 32.... substeps

Clocks aren't really that strong. I can't imagine any scenarios where a clock offers you anything that great that you can't get out of a magic dance. Clocks, by the way, can always be sawed to, they're predictable, and they're bulky too.

What you're seeing is that people are simply getting better.

Brilliant! That's the "Top" button everyone wants, already implemented.

Sorry. That's my house. It's all explained in the Wireless thread.

tl;dr: this is a bug based on the way electronics are calculated. It will probably be patched soon.

Purging alone may be enough to fix it. I don't know. I haven't studied this stuff like some of ya'll have.

But that's still a release. And I don't know if adding purging affects the way any houses work..... if so, you'd need a reset.

Substeps are confusing. Anyone who disagrees is, I think, quite out of touch with how the average player approaches this game. There's no way to see them happening visually in the game and no one way to know they even exist without reading about them externally. Still, keeping substeps and adding a purge may be the best option on the table.

I totally disagree. The rules in this game are, in all other instances, fairly straightforward. While people struggle with electronics, it actually presents a very simple and consistent universe to play in. I found wiring here to be an order of magnitude easier than in Minecraft. To put it another way, physics might be arbitrary, but in the real world we build logic components that abstract most of that way and allow you to ignore the underlying physics.

The whole sub step thing and wireless power completely breaks down that simplicity and consistency. People should be able to get by on understanding the basic functionality of each component and not having to read the source code.

Here's the thing. Jason is going to have to patch this. And it's going to be a major release for what appears to be an obscure bug. I imagine a neighborhood reset will be needed because the rules will have changed.

All in all, people are going to want some justification. Ah, but what if the bug was actually being exploited! People would see it and demand a fix.

So there's that and, yea, I'm a bastard for enjoying this.