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Drakol wrote:

Thanks for the Answer - Just making sure. As Paintings seem like the only way to get rid of wealth currently...

buy tools, run into someone's house, run out

My value was about 86k - no tools in vault. I did have 3 paintings tho.

DaVinci wrote:

Noooooon. Get your house built up with non-deadly traps like path blockers and it's done. You won't get bounties.

They will find a way =P

I know I'm parroting myself here, but lowering the sell value of tools would much help alleviate both problems.

Bring bounty back to $200 which is enough money for beginning houses to kick off, while reduced tool prices would much more effectively and significantly prevent the house value from skyrocketing. When people die, it's $1000 from tool value (NOT the measly $200) that becomes problematic - and these tool values are not available to lower-end houses, who need boost the most. Hell, slash tool sell price to 1/4 and number of money from the starter kit robber would plummet from current $1050 (1000+50) to $450 (250+200).

Fuel is just going to spread brute forcing over several trips.

Maybe we're not using the same terminology here. Here's how I see these terms personally:

Brute forcing: Using an exorbitantly large amount of tools to cut through anything you happen to find in one go. Requires zero planning or thought, just a bunch of money.... but you usually make more than you spend anyway.

Scouting: Going into a house to acquire pieces of knowledge about that house, which you can later piece together to plan a heist. Especially repeated trips to explore. Scouting is actually already cost prohibitive because you have to repeatedly use the same tools on consecutive trips to get past initial traps. Brute forcing doesn't have that problem.

So when you say multiple trips are brute forcing, that's what I consider scouting. It's the more interesting play style and I think it should be encouraged.

I honestly believe you need all three.

Adding three new mechanics to the game is pretty heavy in terms of extending the learning curve.

I think one of the main problem is that we haven't determined on clear activation condition for Big Heat yet.

Somebody builds a house with 10 doors (9 with dog and 1 with safe), but no commit gate, so I decide to run back to the entrance upon reaching wrong door and try again - each trip therefore takes about 20 seconds. About four times into doing this, I'm suddenly hit with 6 hour ban?

I have no problem with normal Heat that blocks re-try for certain amount of time depending on amount of step taken, tool etc. but Big Heat seems too arbitrary.

Hm okay so the start is 50 but successful robberies still add 500 and kills 1000? Guess it's not too bad then, but still, it hampers the playstyle I enjoy the most.

GoogleFrog wrote:

Maybe we need a "put up for adoption" button because their mother is dead and their father is a horrible parent.

Not to mention the fact that they live in a terrible neighbourhood. My house keeps getting robbed.

If a social worker saw where these kids have been living they would get taken away for sure.