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Hey, have fun. mcedit is written in Python, but there's probably far simpler minecraft-likes written in python which you could play around with.

Wow, you know what's a really great trap? Making your house look broken when it's not. People seem pretty willing to walk down a corridor of grills if it looks like whoever robbed the house broke into that corridor and waltzed down it themselves.

Bishop? Didn't he have a high end house a while ago before being broken? Can't really remember.

Right now a surprising number of fairly expensive houses have appeared in the neighbourhood. 22 houses in total. Any idea what the cause of the surge could be?

Glaze's house was back, with the vault on the doormat.

JAAM, you're Shawn Dean Addington.

Oh, right, I forgot about iOS. Sorry, I've only ported games to Android, not iOS. (iOS is just far too much hassle and cost if you're creating free games.)

Really? How much longer was that trail of dogs?

Probably? Any chance of tunneling in?

No, I haven't visited your house with more than $2K. Actually I don't remember ever visiting any of your houses with more -- I very rarely do that. (Seems like you've been using the same pitbull-and-dual-trapdoor-start design for a long time)

I claim that Glaze is interesting because you can actually figure a great deal out with $2K scouts. (I've only just started.) Interesting and secure are complete opposites.

However, if he's dual/triple accounting, as almost certainly seems to be the case, AND is ruining other people's houses, that's really sad. Dual account exploiting isn't so bad if you only use it to build up your own house; at least then there's an extra high value house on the list.

You guys are saying bad things about Mr. Glaze, and convinced me not to do Santa runs on his house. But the truth is that he has the most friendly and interesting house on the list right now, not like your damn combo lock, Passive! You're damn lucky that I just suicided after reaching Larkin's vault instead of taking the $8K and brute forcing your house

(I feel bad for Larkin; his house value has exploded in the last few hours)

Egads, dropping like flies. This wasn't the first time I mistook a sleeping pitbull in a broken house for a dead one. It's a pity, I had loads of tapes I wanted to watch. (I hope in cullman's reboot he changes that.) Added $10K to the John Drake house to whoever wants it (edit: gone)

Well, finally I might do some santa runs and poke around; been very inactive.

matthias, you are John Edmund Hale.

Ah, a mistaken keypress rather than surprise isn't as funny. I wonder if we'll see any more from you. I suspect you've already suicided my house again (walked into the pitbull?)

Hmm, I guess you can probably play the game just fine on a phone even if you lose the connection for a minute at a time. Hadn't realised that.

Amazing, Ronald Mcdonald just visited my house. It's too bad that I don't see his house in the neighbourhood!

Yeah, I was amazed to see the $40100 bounty. I was very amused to see you walk straight into a pitbull, assuming that the house was totally undefended. Keeping some spare pitbulls around in case of all your cash being taken is a great idea. (Can't believe I only learnt recently that they could be moved for free). The period 3 clock isn't meant to be a puzzle, it's just a commit gate. However, most people are poor players and couldn't even work it out.

I'm also amazed that you had racked up a $40K bounty despite having quit the game! I should have known it was you!

Also, I only just realised that you lost your house matthias. What happened to it? Happy to be have been able to finance your new house though; looks interesting

But 6 times $200 is only $1200. That's a trivial amount to spend on breaking a house for the fun of it for someone who isn't poor. Canales just robbed $8000 from me (amused to see it took him 30 saws plus), so had the cash to spend. He's the sort of player who smashes things up after reaching your vault, though.

Oye, sorry to see you go. Hope you do check in and chat from time to time. Going to miss having low value houses brute forced.

I think that if TCD becomes permanently unplayably unpopulated (which might be pretty soon) then someone should just put up a free server for people to play on. But it would easily be less popular than the real thing. For example, I had someone just die in my house with a $50 bounty. A player who hasn't played the game since the start bounty was $50, which appears to be during a small window 9 months ago.

(BTW I feel that even with few houses on the list the game price still isn't bad if you're the obsessive type like we are, who can spend a lot of time on it and get our $15 worth. As someone who arrived recently, it's really a shock to see people 7 months ago already calling the game unplayable due to a low population)

Regarding the death on leaving the house, several times over the last week the server seemed to have gone down for up to several minutes at time; really scary to be robbing a house when that happens! The client is pretty asynchronous and seems to continue running fine when it happens, it just shows some red ... animation in the top right corner. I think it even let me end a self test and continue editing, or vice versa, without a connection to the server.

Also, regarding santa runs, over the course over 24 hours a day ago people did something like 8 of them on my house: gained $18000 of tools. That might be over the top. I didn't actually want the money because my house isn't a proper house, it's just designed for people to play with the circular shift register circuit on the Advanced Electronics page. I think you can guess how many people played with it despite it obviously being part of the puzzle of the house and totally safe. (It amazes me how bad most of the players of this game are!) The money attracted murderous thieves : (. Hey Passive, did you rob the first version of that house? At yet another big loss?

cullman: why would you need to ban cheaters? If the vision is handled server side (which also implies the moves are processed on the server and can't be undone) than it appears to me to be almost impossible to cheat.