Comments on: What to do when you’ve been sabotaged

By: MonopolyHQ

MonopolyHQ — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:18:10 +0000

I’m with you on not always being on the offense… in terms of attacking back on constant aggressors.. just be sure they’re not part of a larger network… or have extra time on their hands…

By: simon

simon — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:08:52 +0000

Or…
i could fill them with green houses and then if i got 2 houses demolished and a sabotage built (3 bad things) i would be back to normal again with
1) a demolition card to destroy the hazard
2) a bonus building (i can simply sell 2 green houses for 25k each and still build
the bonus on my previously full street)

i’ll admit for extra security a combination of both is better (and bonuses are certainly better if you have expensive buildings that could be destroyed)

By: simon

simon — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:03:00 +0000

i’m pretty sure this was just luck
i got 3 penalty chance cards in a row (consecutive actions) totalling 7m
i also built over 200 houses before receiving my first chance card with a bonus building in it.

By: Micah

Micah — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:17:33 +0000

I am at the top of my local leader board, so it is not wise to use my chance cards offensively. I know I am a potential target, so I usually just discard the attack cards. But I think it is important to retaliate when I have been attacked. I don’t bother with people who use a single card against me, because I assume it wasn’t a planned effort to hurt me, and I’d rather not create a situation with another player that I have to deal with in the future. However, if someone attacks me on more than one occasion, I use all of my attack cards on that player to send them a message not to mess with me. So far, it has worked, and kept serious attackers from coming back to hurt me further.

By: TJ

TJ — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:15:44 +0000

My problem is that when rent pays out I’m at work and since I’m top of my local leaderboard people decide to sabotage me minutes before payout so I don’t get as much as I should. Last night I log in after work and I have about 8 messages saying this guy and that guy had destroyed buildings on my streets and sabotaged them, then as I’m building more buildings I get two chance cards that between them take $11m from me. Then after spending $6m on houses (mainly green houses) I get one bonus card, put it on the street with 3 hazards and within minutes one of the guys has destroyed and put another hazard on the street.

My local area isn’t even a particularly populous area but if I keep getting sabotaged like this (I don’t retaliate whenever I get demo cards, but I might as well now) there’s no point in me playing the game.

By: MonopolyHQ

MonopolyHQ — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:17:00 +0000

Bonus buildings is definitely the way to go and if I’ve got 2 or 3 on a street, I wouldn’t be building green houses – but if you’ve got a street at capacity, and seconds till rent, there’s no quicker way adding a layer of protection than just slapping down another house.

i just find i get far far more destroy building cards than bonus cards. but yes, if i do happen to get a bonus card, i instantly switch strategies and return it to profitability, even with the hazard there.

By: Scion

Scion — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:11:16 +0000

I should mention that i am aware that filing a street with green houses means that in order to place a hazard the attacker has to first buldoze two adjoining houses, but my argument still stands the aim is to be able to return the street to profitability as quickly and with as little fuss as possible preferably with just seconds to spare before the rent cacluation.

By: Scion

Scion — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:53:26 +0000

I would like to point out that the strategy of filling a street with buildings is currently flawed.

at the moment regardless of how many hazards have been placed on your street building a single bonus building will return it to profitability.

so if you have a street that is full and someone has buldozed your bonus and replaced it with a hazard then the only chance card that will return it to profitability is a demolish. hwever if you have some spare space on the street then both a demolish and a bonus building can return it to profitability.

In my books it pays to keep your streets protected with a bonus and enough space to be able to place a new one should you be sabotaged.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 09:53:18 +0000

-always have a good sized street full of green houses. That way you can sell them and buy them back to try for more chance cards.
-Always loh in about 2 hours before payday to check to see if you are sabotaged, and start with the green house turn around to get yourself back good for payday.
-try to keep some cash on hand unless the nasty 80% chance card has taken it all from you, so you can build green houses on a street to help get chance cards.

If you keep getting enough green houses you will get chance cards sooner or later to be able to help you place that bonus building to cancel out all the hazards until payday so you can actually clear them away.

If you don’t have room for a bonus building, you can sell other buildings on the street to make room. Better to have some income and a lost building or two, than a street with hazards that gives no income from any building on it.

By: W.Tucker

W.Tucker — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:54:15 +0000

Interesting, I was hitting a dry spell with chance cards. We’re talking really dry: 30 something buildings AGAIN with no chance card… I decided to delete my cookies. Restarted the router and voila, 6 houses later I had obtained 3 chance cards. I’m not one to buy into conspiracies but I am crying conspiracy here folks. Try it out next ‘dry spell’ you have…