• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    The two main rules that get ignored are 1. Free Parking is exactly that, you don’t get anything for landing on it, and 2. If you land on an unowned property and decide not to buy, it immediately goes up for auction. Ignoring those rules drags the game out forever. It’s supposed to be relatively short and brutal.

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      9 months ago

      I never caught that second one and I can immediately see it’s benefit. That would speed the game up significantly.

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        9 months ago

        Auctions also mean that if your opponents overextend into double digits cash, you can buy anything that gets landed on for their balance plus 1. Very tasty to get dark blues for less than their rent prices.

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      9 months ago

      Also that if there’s no houses left in the bank you can’t buy more, even if you buy enough houses to buy a hotel.

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        Which is why the best strategy is to buy 4 houses and never upgrade to a hotel. It prevents others from buying houses. And you can’t just skip straight to a hotel in the actual rules either. You have to have 4 houses and the next turn you can buy a hotel.

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          To max your strategy you can buy the hotel, if you also have enough money to buy all the houses back on the same turn.

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            9 months ago

            Using the actual rules of the game, you’ve typically already won by the time you’re at the point of having that much money lol.

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      9 months ago

      I haven’t played monopoly since about 1996, but the house rules in your first point were how I was taught the game. Crazy how ingrained those mods are, and where tf did they come from!?

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        Well, the game was basically designed to show that rent as a concept is frustrating rich-get-richer bullshit. When people get frustrated, they try to tweak the system to make it less frustrating. Ultimately, it just delays the inevitable.