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I robbed an 11k house to make one of these exploit houses. I know it'll be patched soon, but I really want to see how confused someone gets.

By the way, people seem to be getting a lot better. I'm able to rob a lot fewer houses with starting tools than I used to.

Interesting idea. Someone would have to work up a guide to make the barriers to entry really low here.....

I was being dumb in Connell's house. I came back for a second time and couldn't remember how the floors turned on... it was a long family member path. And I just wasn't taking the time to think about it. I've gotten into the habit of treating everything like a black box.

I wasn't a very good tyrant. That was only like the second person I was trying to take out for having too much money.

Thanks and nice annotations, Pandamonium. A lot of the other features are there to prevent someone digging through from exploring freely.

-A fail safe on the first section. It turns on if you cut in either direction, but it wasn't as effective as I expected. Most brute forcers were smart and cut the first floor.

-The cat on the right is inspired by Blip's advice. If you somehow cut through from any direction other than the bottom, the cat will die.

-Lots of electric floors/doors that simply turn off if visited in order.

-Those doors in the middle become a guessing game unless you have plenty of crowbars.

redxaxder cut through the deepest and got to the part right before the middle chihuahua. He didn't even see the chihuahua though because of the camera! I'm really wondering if this is what he expected because he said:

^I don't necessarily mean doing it intentionally. I lost money this morning on a house because I made bad assumptions about how it worked and I had to come back an embarrassing number of times.

Regardless, it's a strategy that is on the table. If you think your house can be brute forced for $30k, it might be rational to use twice that to take out the people with $30k.

Total listed value (i.e. the amount a robber stands to gain). It's a simple comparison between how much they could potentially make and how much they are carrying with which to attempt it. It makes little sense to bring in $2k of tools on a $100 house or $100k on a $50k house (except for what we're discussing here).

And I'm fine with spending down... you lower your spot on what is essentially the leaderboard. You potentially reduce your income.

Andrus, nooooo! I just saw his house a few minutes ago. Bummer.

But you know what? If you really believe that you have a bunch of stored mapping knowledge, you should bounce back easily.

I have no idea if someone has stayed on top without knocking out competition. I haven't seen it happen lately.

When I started paying attention to this issue, it was when everyday someone at the top was wiping out several pages of their nearest competitors. I felt like this was a problem and made a few threads about it.

I posed the following question:

Price (jwg) took me up on the offer to stay on top for a week, but he stayed there for as long as he did (before being hacked) precisely by knocking out competition.

Wallace did the same thing Saturday night.

I'm there now and it looks like I'm going to have to play by those rules, whether or not that I think that is good for the game. I don't think there is an alternative. The problem is that money keeps going up linearly, but you see diminishing returns on fortifying your house. I've talked about how there is a actually a pretty low floor on the most you would ever need to brute force any house: $2.5 million. That's a lot of money, but maybe lower than you might expect. I'd say as you approach $200k of tools, you all but guarantee a brute force is going to be successful.

Besides fuel, I made another suggestion that might mitigate this somewhat: don't let a robber enter a house if the sell value of their backpack exceeds the house's value. Maybe add an exception for paintings. That would prevent both this rob at a loss strategy and griefing of low level houses.

We'll see what happens. Honestly, I'd be surprised if I make it a week even by taking out threats.

If you walk into someone's house, troll. Take their money, cheater. Starting house gets $17,000,000,000,000.

j/k Jason seems very encouraging about people starting their own servers.

Seriously though, I don't get this part. It would then be a server for people who prefer not robbing very much either, right?

http://thecastledoctrine.net/forums/vie … 9155#p9155

It's really not that bad. You already know how to do magic dances, I've seen that!

The 1-bit clock part is really simple in concept. The clock toggles every the robber moves or uses a tool. On. Off. On. Off. The way I've used this is to have hallways of alternating deadly-when-ON/deadly-when-OFF traps. If you stay in line and don't use tools, you're protected.

There are many other uses for clocks, but I found that to be the most interesting.

Yea... I knew the camera was going to be off. I can never remember how far you can see from the entrance.

shit!

^I think that's it. I'm trying to think about how this is useful. Maybe that data wire is a huge electric floor hallway and that way you can have a bunch of crazy behavior on the other side without having the electronics there.