What a crazy game it was! I don’t think any of us can say it was what we expected.
Some of us found ourselves absurdly addicted as the game made its way into our daily routines, others quickly dropped off the map as they found the game had veered off from the classical board game, still others took time to create tools and sites to help players make the most of the game. Just about everyone suffered from the games technical issues and limitations. And of course, plenty of people cheated.
I love the physical monopoly board game, and so being able to play with a massive number of people online was nostalgic and definitely had its moments. Connecting with many other fans was also a definite plus as we adapted with new strategies as the game progressed.
Would I play the game again, if it was exactly the same? I’m a big fan, but I’d have to say no.
I think most of us stuck it through the last half of the game because we were already highly invested in it. However, there were far too many glitches, holes, and gaming foundations that were missing in the game this round.
Now if Hasbro made an open commitment to listening to fans, taking everything they’ve learned and redesigning the game from the ground up, I’d definitely be there. I’d even pay a few bucks. (A few suggested features for starters)
Below are my stats to date, I can probably squeeze in another 13 billion if I can login tonight. I tried to implement every tip that I had mentioned on this site. I missed some days and may a couple glaring mistakes early on, but I’d say it was a fairly above average game. I didn’t have any special mapping tools to score long streets so I had to pay tens of billions for most of mine. Every street is maxed out, I probably could’ve went for buying even longer streets rather than a lot of streets in the ten million range. But that’s what I was stuck with ultimately.
User: monopolyhq
Level: 6
Location: New Zealand
Score: $405,043,795,000
Money: $250,782,925,000
| # |
Name |
Country |
Initial Price |
Current Price |
Rent |
Bu |
| 1 |
Camas Monteview Rd |
USA
|
$11,377,000
|
$22,246,927,000 |
$1,188,037,000
1188037000
|
260
|
|
|
|
|
| 2 |
269th St |
USA
|
$10,172,000
|
$20,719,197,000 |
$1,079,562,000
1079562000
|
229
|
|
|
|
|
| 3 |
United States Highway 34 |
USA
|
$12,505,000
|
$19,173,180,000 |
$1,160,185,000
1160185000
|
287
|
|
|
|
|
| 4 |
330th Ave |
USA
|
$13,124,000
|
$15,992,424,000 |
$1,299,962,000
1299962000
|
337
|
|
|
|
|
| 5 |
Tallinn-Pärnu-Ikla mnt |
Estonia
|
$10,860,000
|
$9,908,160,000 |
$800,286,000
800286000
|
276
|
|
|
|
|
| 6 |
County Road N2500 |
USA
|
$13,272,000
|
$13,861,272,000 |
$1,478,127,000
1478127000
|
363
|
|
|
|
|
| 7 |
Ring of Kerry |
Republic of Ireland
|
$25,068,000
|
$25,230,543,000 |
$2,052,001,000
2052001000
|
627
|
|
|
|
|
| 8 |
Pilot Rd |
USA
|
$19,954,000
|
$19,959,954,000 |
$1,386,495,000
1386495000
|
314
|
|
|
|
|
| 9 |
Bunya Highway |
Australia
|
$12,873,000
|
$11,574,173,000 |
$996,737,000
996737000
|
276
|
|
|
|
|
| 10 |
10th St NE |
USA
|
$21,708,000
|
$48,016,158,000 |
$2,438,070,000
2438070000
|
496
|
|
|
|
|
| 11 |
United States Highway 212 |
USA
|
$17,124,000
|
$9,251,599,000 |
$1,259,237,000
1259237000
|
430
|
|
|
|
|
| 12 |
Корниловский тракт |
Russian Federation
|
$17,100,000
|
$12,733,100,000 |
$1,118,210,000
1118210000
|
269
|
|
|
|
|
| 13 |
Ranch Road 674 |
USA
|
$14,563,000
|
$11,836,563,000 |
$1,017,456,000
1017456000
|
243
|
|
|
|
|
| 14 |
Laidlaw Park Rd |
USA
|
$12,845,000
|
$9,886,845,000 |
$1,010,384,000
1010384000
|
264
|
|
|
|
|
Total rent: $18,284,749,000
Taxes: $4,936,882,230 (27%)
Net income: $13,348,866,770
What about you? How’d you end up doing? What are your final thoughts?
* On another note, here’s a post on how I built this site and the traffic / community on it for those of you who were interested.
Breaking News: The Game we’ve loved to the point of complete frustration is ending in one week – December 9th.
Here’s the post from the original blog
We want to thank you, the loyal players, for making MONOPOLY City Streets a huge success. We know it’s been said many times, but it bears repeating – we are surprised, thrilled and honored with your response to this promotional introduction for the MONOPOLY City board game.
However, MONOPOLY City Streets game play will officially end on Wednesday, December 9.
We hope that you will enjoy spending the next several days negotiating, buying, selling and building right up until game play ends on December 9. And after the game ends, check out MONOPOLY City board game where you can continue building industrial complexes, skyscrapers or stadiums and sabotage your friends!
Thank you all for your passion and enthusiasm for MONOPOLY City Streets!
I’ll be posting last week strategies and reflections here shortly.
What’s your response so far?
By now most of you have a decent hang of the game and your own ’system’ and ’strategy’. If not, definitely read up on some of the past posts here on monopoly hq.
This post will list out a few of the finer points to tweaking your game. Keep in mind these are my own latest personal techniques and if you read through many of the comments and the chat wall on this site you’ll find plenty of other tips as well.
1. The end date of the game has changed.
Originally the game was to end January 31st 2010, but the latest official FAQ states in December, and the general consensus seems to be the last day of the year. This means your window for acquiring property with good return has shrunk if you want to have a decent return. It also means if you plan on flipping streets you probably don’t want to wait till mid December as it won’t be all that valuable to anyone at that time.
2. There are three new buildings to maximize your street.
spiral luxe $2.5m/1.05m
revolving restaurant $11m/2.1m
stairway to the future $60m/4.5m
The footprint seems smaller than their neighboring buildings, however I’ve got say the sky high towers are still the bulk of my building purchases. Visit the tools page as some of the bots have been updated to reflect the new buildings. Also see the building type specifications if you haven’t seen it already (if anyone has official specs on the new buildings let me know and I can update it)
3. Maximize your streets.
The 420 building limit is reportedly gone so you might want to focus on making existing streets more dense than acquiring streets right now. However I’m still having problems on one of my streets for some reason.
Put your big buildings down first and squeeze in what you can from highest rent down. This one is up for dispute and may depend on the shape of your street, but I generally fill with sky highs, then squeeze monopoly towers -> stairway to the future -> and for some reason there’s still room for some graduated megastructures.
5. Examine streets before you buy.
There are some really expensive roads available for purchase that are actually really small. Also, take note of streets that have duel paths close together. While it’s great for putting green houses down each path, when you’re looking at the larger buildings with bigger payouts, they’ll generally take the width of both paths. ie. that $25 million road will only have room for the equivalent of a $12.5 million dollar road generally.
6. Strategically selling streets.
My gut feel is that it’s generally better to sell virgin undeveloped streets. Everyone’s got their own way of playing and building up, and probably don’t care to be bothered with building over your junk. You can possibly trick a few players into buying a street due to the added value of your properties, but for the most part people are looking for long streets, not purchasing buildings they can buy themselves at any point.
If you plan on selling anyways, at least wait till the end of the day for the highest bid, and then accept right before the next day begins, so you don’t need to pay for unnecessary tax on that street.
7. Stay off the leaderboard.
If you’re at the bottom edge of the leaderboard and you’re sitting on a pile of cash, it’s safest to make some offers on streets you don’t mind owning anyways, as the cash offered up will instantly decrease your score until your offer is rejected.
8. Avoid chance card bombs.
If you’re not a savvy street broker, and you need to build property to earn rent like me, well you need to take your chances at some point. It really depends on where you’re at in the game and how much rent you’re taking in, but I generally use all my cash for trades. I leave myself 1-2 billion for buildings. For some reason I find when I’ve found that when I have that little cash on hand (while being substantial enough to build out), billion dollar accounting errors are much less likely.
