Monopoly Secrets

Here are some more suggestions for your building strategy:

3- Buying buildings is of course the primary way to increase your rental income, but is it better to buy a lot of lower priced buildings or fewer high priced buildings?

Well, yes and no.

In the first few days of your game, your focus should be to find the longest streets you can afford, and maximize your ROI by buying houses and cottages because they get the highest revenue per $ spent. (100% return on streets over $1M).

After a few days you will start to see ever increasing daily revenue, and you should build more expensive buidings.  ROI is not as good, but you earn more revenue per building site, and as your streets start to fill up, that becomes the more important factor.

4- Since I have chosen to have only 5 streets, the shortest streets quickly run out of sites to build.  I have lots of money to build huge buildings, but there is no room left to build them.  Although it seems reasonable to just go out and buy another street, I don’t want to trigger taxes, so I choose to sell the smaller buildings to free up space to build huge buildings.  It may seem counter-intuitive, but taking a loss on 3 Green Houses that earn $150K to replace them with a single Photat building thet earns $697K is not a bad trade.  Later in the game, you may find it expedient to sell 2 adjacent Photat buildings to build a Sky High Tower that earns over $3M per day!

5- The Hazard and Demolition cards that pop up regularly appeal to your vindictive or vengeful nature to sabotage your enemies. Often the objects of your wrath will be the cheating scum that dominate the top of the Leaderboard, so you feel justified to lash out at them with whatever small power you can.

Well then, you need a sharp dose of reality.  The fact is that not only does that approach add nothing to your own score, it is like an engraved invitation to somebody who has infinite resources to crush you like an ant.

So, in spite of the fact that these cards appear more than any other, NEVER use them on another player.  I discard them every time, unless there is a hazard on my street that I want to remove. As a result, I have only been hit twice with a hazard in the last 12 days since the Reset.

More tomorrow.

Ciao,

-Scott