Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Sustainable Monopoly Strategies


Previously, I achieved total monopoly through deliberate mortgaging exercise. Today, I found a quicker way.


Build hotels on Purple, Light Blue, Pink and Orange units after every property is acquired. Make sure u own Get-Out-of-Jail cards, if not... buy them, $30 shud be enough.


The trick here is to keep opponents well funded so they survive each round. How? By performing jailcard buyback. My estimate is each opponent needs $3000 to survive your rentals in each round.


This is how it works:
1) Sell jailcard to opponent for 1 dollar.
2) Buy back with the top up amount (Say opponent got $1300 left, buy back the card with $1700)


Repeat this step until you have $9500, this is the amount required to build hotels on remaining colours.


Advantages of jailcard buyback:
1) Quick total monopoly, took me 2-3hours. DME can take over 6 hours

2) No unmortgaging fees

3) Keep your opponents happy

2 comments:

Akira 思胜 said...

Are you sure that PC player can be happy for that?

yanchee said...

Akira 思胜: Say I sell to you something for 1 dollar, and then buy that thing back from you for 100 dollar, how would you feel? HAHA...

I tried the new monopoly u sent me, it's a lot more difficult becoz PC players pakat one, trading properties below market value with each other to gain fast monopoly. Very unfair hor...

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