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Yeah, I looked as well and the reason I missed it was that I was lazy (and busy) and did a simple grep, but the relevant function call was broken over multiple lines! And it was in the code since August.

Alas! If only I had dropped more clubs! Was satisfying to watch. Would be too bad if you left; most active person around here.

Edit: I see that someone finished off most of the other dogs. Does it save the map if you kill a family member and die?

At least hidden pets are interesting if information leaks, but if it's a pet toggling combo lock switches then it's the same thing (but probably more secure).

Did you know that long ago the game used to provide blueprints of houses when you robbed them? Probably the intention was to make map peek cheating much less effective. Jason complained that the addition of the blueprints system resulted in most traps (including combo locks and hidden-pet movements) being useless and the only difficult houses being those which were almost incomprehensible. Quote:

Read the full blog post here; it's pretty interesting.

Got to be some good stuff from that era (I've starting looking into electronic gadgets). I'm inclined to try my hand at computer generated houses! It would at least be nice to use a maze generator plus a few pitbull or whatnot so that I can always put up a simple house for the amusement of other players, even if it's broken in a few hours. I think that if everyone could easily put up simple houses without a big time commitment (including just repeatedly the same $2K house with small changes) we would have far more houses on the list. That is the reason I want to implement an 'Import' function in the client.

Too bad about your repeated loss, Passive. So that was a bug in the Android client?

I say! Down with combo locks! Just no fun. I've been trying to put up a house with no combo locks or hidden pet movements, but I keep losing it to self tests. Turns out that if you don't pass a single self test, you don't even get a record of your house layout in the log file . I'm going to edit the client and add an import button, and in future design my houses in castledraft. This is just too annoying.

Ah cool, so gyuri is John Eric Bishop. I was sad to see people repeatedly bruteforce your house when it is so simple to work out. Surprised you still haven't changed it.

I don't think that necessarily implies dual account abuse unless you mean Nelson couldn't have worked out your house before a recent death (it is a brand new name).
I posted the map not because I thought he was being abusive, but because any toolless suicide scout would see exactly the same thing I did. However I guess not being able to do suicide scouting if you have a house is an important aspect of the game, so I'll remove the link.

By the way, I recognise your house design. Travis Ralph Doane.

Haha, I like the message you left him.

I seem to be getting plenty of visitors and deaths. Make your house appear easy and many poke around... but too easy and they don't bother to bring tools Last night a stranger and I had an exciting time repeatedly robbing each other's insecure houses simultaneously. Couldn't get to my vault to retrieve a club and give him a piece of my mind. Then he came back for my wife... and died before I could get his. Profitable nonetheless!

Yes, Passive is Gordon. I recognised that stash of vault contents you posted and learnt that I had been robbed! You used $21700 worth of tools (at full price) in order to make off with $5315. A dangerous man. At least I can be pleased that it was so expensive for you. And it was totally my own fault for not installing extra pits and a few concrete walls despite having the cash for it. I'm amazed that you assumed there wouldn't be any concrete or metal walls around the vault... and guessed correctly! And shorted out the power for the hell of it : (. I can't be bothered creating a new house so I'm putting it back up half broken.

Edit: nevermind, mistepped into a pit! Geez.

Well, I haven't actually played CM either; there aren't exactly many players. But the Kotaku
article I think covered pretty much everything there is to know, barring aspects
yet to be added.

I admit, when I talked about not being able to win money off a good poker bot,
I meant a poker bot designed not to lose money, which probably means one designed for
competitions against other bots. Real bots playing on gambling websites are going to instead
be designed to win money off humans, and to do that it's far more important to exploit your
opponent's weaknesses than to ensure you don't have any weaknesses yourself (the two are mutually exclusive).
So it's probably true that these bots are predictable and beatable by better humans.

I don't actually play poker. Writing a bot and doing all that reading was my introduction to it, and I haven't gone back since that time. :)
However I'm really interested in CM, it seems like Poker Improved.

I think you're right about everything you said about CM and poker.
Jason was surely expecting bots on CM all along.  Anyone can use
a tool to compute odds, and already has decent information at the side of the screen by default
(maybe this should be improved. Someone can always fork the client to improve it).

Well it's that old trick for finding interesting webpages like admin panels and embargoed press releases: you just add obvious page names.

Often I'm too lazy to scout before bringing tools. And if I'm going to bring tools, I might as well bring $2000 worth, to maximise your profit if you manage to kill me.

But it wasn't me. I would instead suicide in a house without any cash.

I mean after public release, and before the server is patched.

I take back what I said. Jason seems to have a heck of a lot of experience with crypto and networking. And there's almost no deadly C/C++ running on the server. Holy crap, he's even using a YubiKey!

EDIT: It's a pity there's no prize for finding bugs allowing cheating. That's a lot of attack surface that's excluded.

This is a very interesting game. Jason's clearly hoping that the use of a magic square as a payout matrix means that each players have equal possibility to win or draw; that is, that a zero-sum Nash equilibrium exists for every possible board position. The most obvious candidate is both players choosing columns uniformly at random, which is I believe the assumption you're making. However, I'm not convinced, and might run this past some mathematicians here. Unfortunately the strict "subject to chance" test means that if this assumption fails, you're in trouble. (I've never before seen anything where mathematics could be applied so directly to a legal decision, pretty interesting!)

Even more importantly, how the hell are you going to keep bots out of this game? And the complete source code for the client is available, so there's nothing stopping this from becoming bot infested.

It think that will definitely scare people off (I can't name any other games that do that); is there a big enough advantage (convenience?) over depositing through a webpage to justify it?