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These are random checks of your mouse trap and although they may not occur hourly, you will average about 24 each day.<br><br>
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'''Trap checks''' are hourly checks of your mouse [[trap]]. You can only receive trap checks for 24 hours since your last activity.
Don't complain to the devs if they do not occur every hour on the hour, as they're not designed to work that way (even though sometimes it works out nicely that way), and your complaints will only make you look foolish. Instead, if you think that there truly is a problem with the quantity of trap checks you're getting, simply look through your hunting journal and count how many you've received in the past 24 hours.  Most of the time, you will have right around 24 trap checks.<br><br>
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If you notice that your quantity of checks is way off, only then should you send a note to the devs about it -- and even then, add your concerns to the most current trap-check related thread under the Tech Support heading (it's the group of posts all the way at the bottom of the Discussion Board)And '''DO NOT''' just add a new post with the disclaimer "I didn't see any trap check posts so I added a new one", as there are many of them, and stating otherwise only serves to show others you were too lazy to look through them.
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A particular hunter's hourly trap checks will occur on the same minute of every hour, but to reduce server load, not all hunters are assigned to the same minute. Trap checks may occur either on the hour or 15, 30 or 45 minutes past the hour. Trap checks are actually computed when a player returns to the game; so depending on timing, it is possible to see another player's profile where the hourly trap check has not yet been recorded, even though the player was taken along for a hunt by a friend's horn after the time of their designated trap check.
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Mice caught on a Trap Check do not count toward [[Tournament]] scoringOne tactic in a tournament is to disarm cheese between hunts in order to skip the trap check, and thus avoid the situation where the trap check could break a streak or catch what would have been a high-point mouse at the wrong time.
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In the [[Raider River]] phase of the [[Gnawnian Express Station]], hunters can only attract a mouse from the [[Automice]] subgroup of [[Train Robbers]], which means that charms designed to attract [[Raider]]s have no effect at that time.
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Latest revision as of 22:51, 28 September 2013

Trap checks are hourly checks of your mouse trap. You can only receive trap checks for 24 hours since your last activity.

A particular hunter's hourly trap checks will occur on the same minute of every hour, but to reduce server load, not all hunters are assigned to the same minute. Trap checks may occur either on the hour or 15, 30 or 45 minutes past the hour. Trap checks are actually computed when a player returns to the game; so depending on timing, it is possible to see another player's profile where the hourly trap check has not yet been recorded, even though the player was taken along for a hunt by a friend's horn after the time of their designated trap check.

Mice caught on a Trap Check do not count toward Tournament scoring. One tactic in a tournament is to disarm cheese between hunts in order to skip the trap check, and thus avoid the situation where the trap check could break a streak or catch what would have been a high-point mouse at the wrong time.

In the Raider River phase of the Gnawnian Express Station, hunters can only attract a mouse from the Automice subgroup of Train Robbers, which means that charms designed to attract Raiders have no effect at that time.