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[Duuvian]

I noticed a big reduction in the number of panicked tourists who got stuck inside my base after I built the hotel on the first island.

[Siquo]

A shack multiple shacks with a door works really nice as well, as a distraction. No traps, no nothing, just a door.

[Ephemeriis]

A shack multiple shacks with a door works really nice as well, as a distraction. No traps, no nothing, just a door.

I used to love this.

I'd build an assortment of shacks outside.  Put absolutely nothing in them.  Lock some of the doors, leave others unlocked.

Agents would spend all day long searching those empty shacks.

Tourists found them far more interesting than my real base.

Hilarious.

[Jreengus]

I noticed a big reduction in the number of panicked tourists who got stuck inside my base after I built the hotel on the first island.

Just build a windtrap at the entrance to your base, any tourist who wanders in triggers it and is blown back out. It works on agents too and since it doesn't hurt them they don't get heat. The only annoying part is when your minions have to wait to get out or else get blown out and drop whatever they were carrying.

Anyhow I made the mistake of going to the second island with a lot of money, once I a briefcase rack in my treasury it immediately filled up with gold trapping all the minions in there in-between the stacks of gold. Now I have to spend a ton of money just to rescue them.

Oh yay! Now I've started to get pop up agents too! Really wish you could move gold stacks, If I could just reposition one or two of the stacks I could easily connect the isolated sections with the rest of my base.

[Muz]

Or just build those pop-up traps at the entrance. Tourists run out of smarts very fast and your social minions will kindly escort them out while they're all confused.

[nenjin]

So I've basically surrounded my first island base with entrances, and linked them into two spurs. Neither of them connect to the real base though.

And it's magical. 80 to 90 percent of agents never even see my real base. They spend hours just bouncing back and forth between doors in the dummy corridors. (The weak ones, at any rate.) '

I'm not even going to stick traps in them, because they eventually generate heat or force my minions to lead the zombies out of the base.

Although I think I'm seeing a weird side effect from it. Some groups of agents have stayed in those halls for up to 30 minutes real time. And I've noticed occasionally, a group's heat will just freeze and stop falling over time. At first I thought it was a side effect of the unofficial patch..but I think agents remaining on the island, unable to leave even though they want to, somehow prevents heat from dropping sometimes.

[Mr.Person]

That's what I did. Problem is, once the super agents show up, they start blowing up the doors. It gets to be kind of annoying, especially because they're taking almost no damage from the explosions.

[dogstile]

That's what I did. Problem is, once the super agents show up, they start blowing up the doors. It gets to be kind of annoying, especially because they're taking almost no damage from the explosions.

When that happens set the to level 1. Normally that'll stop them from shooting them.

[Smitehappy]

Just started playing the game on steam again, forgot have much fun building your base to take advantage of minion flow. I also stumbled across this really neat article that shows off some of the cool things you can do with room design by building 1x1 rooms and the like.
http://evilroomsandcorridors.wordpress.com/2010/01/

[ductape]

need some help here.

This has happened twice, when starting out the game, one fo the early objective is to capture a civilian maid and interrogate her.  get the interrogation device built and assign her to be interrogated on it, and each time while looking away somewhere while waiting, I come back and she has vanished form the jail cell and is nowhere to be found.

Now the missions wont seem to progress until I interrogate her, but she is totally gone. Why is this happening?

EDIT - nevermind, she must have escaped, i found her walking around and gave her what she deserved.

[Astral]

Loved the game, sad that the studio went under shortly afterward. The game had a lot of potential, but was so horribly buggy and imbalanced in many ways.

[Neonivek]

I noticed a big reduction in the number of panicked tourists who got stuck inside my base after I built the hotel on the first island.

That is actually one of the points of a hotel...

The problem is that the vast majority of game ending glitches involve the hotels.

[Thexor]

I noticed a big reduction in the number of panicked tourists who got stuck inside my base after I built the hotel on the first island.

That is actually one of the points of a hotel...

The problem is that the vast majority of game ending glitches involve the hotels.

Even when you don't encounter a game-ending glitch, the hotel working as intended is still very effective at destroying your base. Nothing like your entire Social division constantly wandering back and forth across the island, being totally useless and completely exposed to enemy agents. 

Of course, some might argue that a hotel is better because it handles tourists automatically instead of making you tag them. Then again, I'm kind of obsessive about tagging, so this has never been a particular problem. 

[Neonivek]

You want your Hotels close to your entrance(s) personally.

Then again I was great at handling heat (Social minions were the largest group of minions I owned)

[Ephemeriis]

I always thought social stuff was the best way to go.

Build a decent hotel to take care of tourists...  Build a few fake entrances and locked doors to keep the snoops busy...  And train lots and lots of social minions.  Then you just tag the snoops as soon as they show up.

You don't have to kill anyone at all.  Your social minions keep them confused and off-balance, and eventually they just wander home without much to report.