Yes your right about the notification after wards…it should have been on within minutes of rental update….that to me is where they dropped the ball on that one..

and wrt current scores i tend to have to agree with you mind observer. im more or less around that level as well and i did fairly well in the first few days….although i missed that multiplier on the first payout because i was ‘fixated’ on the restart strategy that i had worked out (I didnt buy the longest street possible rather went for one just on the 1kk mark that i was able to fill that day) and i also didnt go whole hog and sell everything after payout and rebuild again on a higher multiplier.

although given that i missed that first day im unsure how much more i would have been able to achieve.

A) Revert to flat rents above $1M and immediately* announce the change.
B) Announce that the game will be reset again in X hours/days with the new rental rates.
Or, C) Admit that the live game is in BETA and will continue to change without notice or explanation until going gold upon a certain date or target.

I feel that reverting the rents and continuing the game makes it less interesting since it left some lucky/quick players with extra money that the rest of the players will never get so easily.

But the bigger problem is that there are known to be other ways that players got very wealthy. Not only multiaccounting, but the trick of offering a trade with negative cash. In my eyes, all of the superwealthy are under suspicion of these various cheats and exploits. I have a score of $140M, twice as high as 2nd place on my local leaderboard. I can see how someone might legitimately have 2 or 4 times that, but not a 1000 times more.

I’m doing well and I believe some of the unpredictability is realistic. But I think the game needs another reset (after more bugs are ironed out) to clear away all the ill effects of broken rent multipliers, trade exploits, and cheats.

The more I play the more I think the rental returns are too high as well. But we’ve all gotten use to it and anything lower seems weird. But it does seem unusual that you can recover the full price of your purchase with simply a day of rent. I’ll be playing out this current round of monopoly no matter what – but I’m still hoping for plenty of updates the next time around.

The point being they changed the initial cost of roads to be bassed on the length so that the initial cost was more inline with the potential for development. This seems reasonable and is a good improvement to the game. However while making the change the knock on effect on the rent calculation was simply not considered (possibly because a differnt developer did it, or it was done in too much haste) And during testing they probably just tested did spot testing to see that the street prices were being calculated according to length.

So I guess im in the minortiy when it comes to agreeing with re-introduction of the rent multiplier cap in the current game. (or in my books fixing the un-intended bug that they introduced with the street price change)

Whilst i think they should have introduced the fix earlier than they did i also understand why they did it without notification. In my books doing it without notification was the fairest approach. Had they announced the change then they would have had to have waited at least one rental caclulation using the multiplier, so that people could react to the change otherwise half could have fixed and half would have been stuck, and bassed on my and others expectations of what we were going to achieve on that next rent calculation it would have completely destabilised the game….who wants to play againes 100 thousand billionaires?

In fact in my opinion the current rental returns are way to high. I would prefer a higher initial float and a much smaller base rental return. with a modifier based on density…but thats a different topic.