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[MrWillsauce]

Quick question - can any item break or otherwise disable an electric floor trap that isn't currently on?

Only cutting the wire or disabling the object that carries power to it can make an unpowered electric floor 100% safe.

[Neyvn]

Walk into a House... See this...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[MrWillsauce]

Walk into a House... See this...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

You saw a broken embedded image?

[Neyvn]

You saw a broken embedded image?

Not for me... Hmmmm...

[Neyvn]

Fixed it with a different link, hope that helps...

[MrWillsauce]

I was still able to use it by copying the image URL, but it doesn't didn't appear in the thread for me. Anyway, it's totally accurate. Pit bulls should be changed. They definitely have a place in the game, but I'm tired of half of the houses I visit having an absolutely retarded amount of pit bulls stalking the front door.

E: It shows up now.

[Shadowlord]

You know what's frustrating? That you lose everything, including your current design, when you die while testing your own house.

[MrWillsauce]

You know what's frustrating? That you lose everything, including your current design, when you die while testing your own house.

That's part of the fun!

[Leafsnail]

I'm pretty sure that's the most common cause of death for real life paranoid trap builders.

My house seems pretty impenetrable so far.  It would require a lot of brute force to get in, and I'll improve it when I can be bothered to.

Quick question: what do bricks do?  Break windows?

[MrWillsauce]

Quick question: what do bricks do?  Break windows?

I don't know if you can break windows with them, but you can certainly use them to depress pressure plates from afar and wake sleeping dogs.

[Evil Marahadja]

You know what's frustrating? That you lose everything, including your current design, when you die while testing your own house.

1++++

I have died three times. Every one of them was when I missed something in my design that killed me.

[Leafsnail]

Something I learnt from Aavak's videos: always do a "dry-run" before having a serious test of your traps.  Replace pitbulls with chihuahuas.  Replace pits/ electropads with wires and have another electropad in a harmless place so you can check if you would have died when stepping on a wire.  Add extra escape routes if you have a maze style design.  Other than one stupid "Yep, looks like my electropad system does work" very early on I've managed to avoid dying to my own traps so far.

[MrWillsauce]

I kind of like the thrill of not knowing for certain that you will survive your own traps.

[Leafsnail]

So, after playing for a while I think there are two major issues that need to be addressed:

1. Electro-pads.  There needs to be some way of dealing with ones that aren't lit up - I found it quite trivial to create an electropad system that will be off until you step on it, and which can only be deactivated for one turn by doing a set of weird moves which there's no hint for.
2. Damage to buildings.  It's cool, but it's quite easy to set up a level so that it'll be totally unwinnable (eg turn one electro-pad shock) for future players after one person comes in and breaks a wall.  Basically the level really needs to be re-approved after damage.

[ScriptWolf]

I agree on the electropad thing, it's very annoying you can't prevent it when you are already on top of it.

I think the building damage being permanent in some cases is a good thing, and no ones trap is ever impossible you just need the right tools and time