09/13/09 [DMFA #1042] - Press Issues

[Janus Whitefurr]

And what better way to reveal he has a secret lab as to visit it while the press are around, looking though the windows....

If I had a secret base of operations, it would have a backdoor entrance and all.  Especially so if it was a secret base of operations.

If Evil Genius has taught me anything it's that multiple entrances are a security risk, not a benefit.

[Naldru]

And what better way to reveal he has a secret lab as to visit it while the press are around, looking though the windows....

If I had a secret base of operations, it would have a backdoor entrance and all.  Especially so if it was a secret base of operations.

The trick is to have the secret entrance inside the house, in a room that doesn't have any windows.  Closets are good for this purpose especially since it makes it easier to hide the edges of the doors.  If it's a secret laboratory, all of the entrances should be secret.  Upstairs and basement hallway closets are very good for this.

The Evil Genius manual doesn't have anything against additional secret entrances.  It's just that they should lead to certain death rather than the secret lair.  You can have all the secret entrances to deadly traps that you want.  

I don't really think that Jyrras has to worry about the paparazzi breaking into the house.  The Lost Lake Inn and surrounding area may be a no predation zone but I suspect that anyone actually breaking in would just be one of the major food groups for Lorenda.

[TheJimTimMan]

And what better way to reveal he has a secret lab as to visit it while the press are around, looking though the windows....

If I had a secret base of operations, it would have a backdoor entrance and all.  Especially so if it was a secret base of operations.

The trick is to have the secret entrance inside the house, in a room that doesn't have any windows.  Closets are good for this purpose especially since it makes it easier to hide the edges of the doors.  If it's a secret laboratory, all of the entrances should be secret.  Upstairs and basement hallway closets are very good for this.

The Evil Genius manual doesn't have anything against additional secret entrances.  It's just that they should lead to certain death rather than the secret lair.  You can have all the secret entrances to deadly traps that you want. 

I don't really think that Jyrras has to worry about the paparazzi breaking into the house.  The Lost Lake Inn and surrounding area may be a no predation zone but I suspect that anyone actually breaking in would just be one of the major food groups for Lorenda.

Gah, beaten to it. I would like to add Jy likely also has various security measures in place, not least Lorenda if she catches anyone breaking and entering. My impression is that he is holed up in a mansion, and I would be surprised if he didn't have at least a small network of security cameras covering the grounds. A network of cameras that could easily be linked to concealed sentry guns, if we're following Evil Genius methods.

[Attic Rat]

Hey, all Jyrras needs is a patch that makes him look like someone his size, like Wildy...

No, better he went with looking like one of the basement rats.

[Corgatha Taldorthar]

Hey, all Jyrras needs is a patch that makes him look like someone his size, like Wildy...

No, better he went with looking like one of the basement rats.

Better yet, give Wildy a patch to make her look like Jyrras, and then turn her loose on the paparazzi.

[ishidan]

Hey, all Jyrras needs is a patch that makes him look like someone his size, like Wildy...
No, better he went with looking like one of the basement rats.

Better yet, give Wildy a patch to make her look like Jyrras, and then turn her loose on the paparazzi.

Ooh.  Or make a batch of Jyrras-doppelganger patches, give them to Wildy and the Rats, and play Paparazzi Mistaken Identity.  Wildy is, as we remember, an old pro at this game. 
1.  Patch on. 
2.  Get paparazzi's attention by performing an intentionally sloppy 'attempt to flee'.  Paparazzi gives chase. 
3.  Once out of sight, patch off...paparazzi catches up to find (obviously) the wrong person.  Put on a nice act of 'I have no idea what you're talking about...' But...juuust 'over there', is the next decoy.
4.  Lather rinse repeat.

Fun with shapeshifting!  The only trick is to make sure your decoys wouldn't do anything you wouldn't while in disguise.

[Succubus_1982]

The only solution is for Jyrras to start travelling around with Pip we all know what happens when he encounters cameras  

[Kitesfear]

The trick to a proper secret entrance, if that it should be, in fact, a wall(or something to that effect, depending on the nature of the threat environment).

Until you trigger the explosive bolts. Or functionally equivalent.

It's basically X-COM Dynamic Building Entry in reverse.