Rent Values Have Changed. New Strategy Needed.
It’s confirmed. Rent values on large properties has completely changed.
It looks like the old cap of $1 MIL property values has return, except only as it applies to rent values.
You see, rent is calculated in part by the property’s value. (Building Rent = Street Purchase Price x Building Purchase Price x Rent Multiplier — details here.) When a lot more expensive streets appeared after the restart, they were very attractive for this reason.
Then, yesterday, without warning, the developers changed the rules. It looks like the “Street Purchase Price” when it comes to calculating rent has been capped at $1 MIL. In other words, even if your property cost $30 MIL, your building rent calculations will only “see” $1 MIL of that value.
Anyone that made sacrifices to purchase these more expensive streets, expecting greater returns, are now left out in the cold.
And the official Twitter and blog has been silent for almost 24 hours. Hmm…
So what’s the new strategy?
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man this sucks, how can they keep changing the rules without telling us?
So does this mean that we don’t need to buy the super $$$$ streets – or we should get them just because they are long…. – if it’s one of the first 5 streets we buy it will be worth it no, despite the rent multiplier being gone? What do you think?
new strategy is very very simple. just quit this “game”…
Hard to say yet, but I’d suggest aiming for the streets that cost right about $1 MIL. If you already bought some massive, more expensive ones, keep them around too.
beriba is correct: quit
This hurts. I had just sold everything on two streets and then the streets just so I could build on my longest road.
I was looking forward to nearly 200 million in rent today. The guy with the longest road in my area was due to get over 3 billion in rent, and he only got 38 million. Ouch!
I am so disheartened. Why did they call me a cheater on their blog? I was following the rules they made, I can’t be held accountable because no one at Tribal DDB can do middle school math. One would figure that they would go after the cheaters who are using multiple accounts to funnel money…but no, they come after me.
New Strategy???
Forget about developing a long term one, because it will be subject to capricious changes in the rules…sort of like God changing the gravitational constant after the Universe had been created.
I’ll give it a few more days, but I really feel stupid for having wasted so much time figuring this game out.