Thanks for all of the comments, questions, sharing of bugs in the game, suggestions for improvements...and most of all thanks for your patience and support. This evening, we just wanted to provide a few answers to frequently asked questions about game play that have been asked repeatedly on Twitter and the blog.
Q: I can't seem to register. How do I start?
A: Purchase a street and then you will be invited to register. Keep in mind that your first street will become your "home" page for the game.
Q: Is there a way for me to change my starting location (for example, when I login I get sent to London, but I’d like to start in Chicago).
A: No. Your starting location is determined by where you purchase your first street. You don’t have to stay there, it is simply your “home” page in the game.
Q: How can someone bulldoze my bonus building? I thought they were safe?
A: A bulldoze card can destroy any building on a non-protected street, a bonus, or a hazard on your own street. Yes, a bonus building can be destroyed. A bonus building protects your street from a hazard being built on the street and protects all of the other buildings on the street from the bulldozer as long as the bonus building is still standing.
Q: Does owning streets that are connected to each other have any special power/rent opportunity?
A: No.
Q: When do I get payday? It’s been more than 24 hours since the time I registered/last received payday?
A: Rent is paid out once every 24 hours, which starts and ends at Midnight GMT. You need to log in or refresh the page to receive rent.
Q: Do you only get rent on days when you log in or does it accrue?
A: You must log in to receive rent. It does not accrue.
Q: There aren't any streets left!
A: There are plenty of streets available for purchase, although they might not be in your home town.
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
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Odd blog post, no new news :( .
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Never mind, turns out some of the information in new.
Does owning streets that are connected to each other have any special power/rent opportunity
A: No.
Would have been awesome if they had actually put that feature into the game..
i am not getting no chance cards,no schools,no stadium, whats up with that? i started since day one, caveman speed
@ Adrian -- Chance cards are given randomly, but chances increase after buying streets or building on a street. You should get one eventually. Hang in there!
@Adrian
As I observed, you must kepp doing something to pop a chance card, e.g. build or buy. I left my streets there for two days, no chanace card pops. After I built my first 4 or 5 buildings, a chance card pops. So, I kept building more and finally got 5 chance cards in 2 mins.
This is really odd. It seems that poeple with streets and money to build have CHANCE while poors do not.
Mr. Monopoly - Is there any chance you could set up a 'fan site' page on this blog so we don't have to keep posting links in comments?
The two things about connecting streets not meaning anything and rent not accrueing contradicts what is in the gaming rules. Whats up with that?
@Mari - you're right. The rules will be updated before we restart.
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Hey Mr. M...
Part of my strat is to own streets that are so small they can only hold 1 building. As long as I keep that 1 building up, I'll always have rent. I noticed that the small atreets cost 100,000 - however, I purchased a small street that is TOO SMALL. No building at all can be built on it. Will there always be streets that are too small to develop on? Maybe this should be included in the FAQ?
"A bulldoze card can destroy any building, bonus, or hazard. Yes, a bonus building can be destroyed. A bonus building protects your street from hazards and from the bulldozer as long as it is still standing."
this still doesn't make sense to me. a bulldoze card can destroy a bonus building but a bonus building protects you from a bulldozer as long as its standing?
@Peter - That's something that we're looking at, actually -- the streets that are too small to build on. Doesn't make sense to sell them if you can't build on them, does it? Hopefully more info about it soon.
We need away to add people as friends by name. I have someone sabotaging me, but I can't find him in the game in order to get back at him. He's not in the leader board, and I can't find any of the streets that he owns. Need a way to type in a name or link from the alert to track these people.
Thanks.
@parabolas -- the bonus building will protect all the other buildings on your street. I'll clarify.
Mr M,
My biggest issue is around bulldozing hazards. I have had a few built on my streets, but when I get a chance card giving me the option to bulldoze, I can't select the hazard despite repeatedly clicking on the red cross next to it. I have tried clicking a few times, clicking once and waiting 30 mins and everything in between. What's up with that??
Mr. Monopoly Will I get an answer to the fan site question? I don't really care if it's an yes or no, I'll just rather have you not ignore me :(
To anyone that was wondering, I removed my last comment because I didn't read another users post correctly which made me give him/she the wrong answer.
@Mark -- we've heard that from many people. we hear you on that. If Trump were trying to destroy my beloved Atlantic City anonymously, I'd want to know...
@Alex -- That is perplexing. Has anyone else had similar problems that prevent you from removing a hazard?
After the restart, will we have the ability to save chance cards? I find that I only get chance cards when I do not need them.
@Parabolas & Mr Monopoly,
Please clarify this bonus building/hazard/bulldoze thing one more time.
If you have a bonus building then you are protected from hazards and bulldozing...?
I just had two streets with bonus building sabotaged with a hazard and on top of that my street was completely full with buildings. Kinda ticked about the whole situation.
Let me know
@stylw -- i'll see what I can do for you. Sorry it's not a yes or a no right now...
@Corey -- no promises, but it's something that is being discussed.
@Joshua -- Someone placed a hazard on a street where you had a bonus building? And the bonus building was still standing when they did it? That shouldn't be happening. Good to know.
Hey Mr. Monopoly... FIX YOUR FAQ.
Q: How can someone bulldoze my bonus building? I thought they were safe?
A: A bulldoze card can destroy any building, bonus, or hazard. Yes, a bonus building can be destroyed. A bonus building protects your street from a hazard being built on the street and protects all of the other buildings on the street from the bulldozer as long as the bonus building is still standing.
FALSE ANSWER!
A BULLDOZE card CANNOT bulldoze a HAZARD BUILDING on a street property not belonging to yourself, thus a BULLDOZE card CANNOT in fact destroy ANY BUILDING in the game, regardless of BONUS protection. Please update that in your FAQ.
@mercuryrune - done.
@Mr M and Alex RE:Bulldozing
There seems to be an issue with IE and possibly other browsers where you are not able to bring up property info log after a while. Logging out and logging back in a different browser session should allow you to again pull up the property info dialog. Someone on a previous blog post thought it might have something to do with the dialog not closing properly after openning.
@Jerok - Thanks for the feedback and possible solution. We are compiling everything that's been mentioned during the past few days and discussing with the team.
@Corey
Support
@Mr. Monopoly
"Chance cards are given randomly, but chances increase after buying streets or building on a street."
Buy and build needs money. That means richers get more chances than late comers and poors. Hazard, bonus building and bulloze card all come from chance cards, unfair chance makes rich people be richer.
Am I right?
@Leo There are also 'bad' chance cards that take away around one million or so, I have got a few of them myself.
@Mr M. and Alex
I commented on a different post for this, but I can confirm that I am unable to demolish more than one building per session.
I wanted to demolish 2 cheap buildings and 'upgrade' to a better one with a larger footprint, and was unable to remove the 2nd building. Had to refresh the browser and log in again.
If I wanted to delete 3 buildings, I had to log in 3 times, etc.
There are other activities which also seem to remove the ability to view building information (and therefore the ability to demolish anything or yours or anyone else's), but I haven't pinpointed what they are yet.
Using IE8, but have also had this problem from IE7.
Hope this helps.
Similar to Corey above, I have a street with a bonus building but one of the regular buildings on my street got buldozed! Can you prevent this from happening in the reboot? I thought I was protected but apparently there is a glitch.
Also, why does everything seems so mean spirited in the game? I have friends who are also playing who have hazards on their street but never get the bulldoze chance & I ALWAYS get it, why can't I demolish their hazards? If the Buldoze card says I can demolish ANY building in the game (including bonuses) shouldn't it be able to buldoze another player's hazard?!
@Mr. Monopoly
I am finding that the streets that can and cannot be bought in some parts of the Niagara Pennisula in Southern Ontario seem weird. I checked OpenStreetMap and while there are some errors there it doesn't explain why some places are not forsale. Streets are on the map and stuff. How did you decide which streets are forsale and which are not?
It would be nice to know more about how often we should expect to receive chance cards and/or what activities increase the probability of getting one. Thank you.
One change I'd like to see before the restart is to make the chance cards a zero-sum game.
When logged in today, I got smacked with 3 negative-money chance cards in a row, each over 1 Million. This pretty much nuked my gameplay for the day. Previous to that, I had received 2 positive-money chance cards adding up to 350k total. If the negative-money chance cards are a function of your overall worth, then the positive-money chance cards should be as well.
PS - I would also LOVE the ability to hold onto my chance cards for later. It is in keeping with the spirit of the original game cause you can hold on to the "Get out of jail free" card until you need it!
@Jerok
Are you saying that you can view building information and demolish multiple buildings with a different browser (e.g. Chrome, Firefix, etc.)?
@Max - thanks. Also, if you want to get rid of buildings on your own street you can always sell them back to the bank.
@Mr. Monopoly
Holy crap, you answered... thanks!
In one of your updated blog entries prior to the reset, could you please hint at what changes or refinements to gameplay you plan on installing?
Such as a retract bid feature, or property value changes related to high population areas and built up areas. (Downtown, etc.)
One last question, just to be humorous...
Where's the infamous Community Chest's get out of jail free card? It would be humorous to have a get rid of prison-only hazard bulldoze card that could be kept until used!
As always, keep up the good work Mr. Monopoly and DEV TEAM! Nice to know you really do listen to the players!
I've been notified that somebody has made an offer on one of my streets.
However, I couldn't see the button "View offers" on this same street card. I thought this was because the sender cancelled it by some way...
...But I just logged in some minutes ago and the system was still telling me I've got an offer on table that i had to accept/negociate/decline. I still can't see it anywhere!)
Can you please explain me why?
I'd like to have a way of setting where your "local" area is so that you can see your REAL neighbors. So make it so you can have enter your actual zip code or something.
I've seen the same chance card get repeating very often. I would like to see Mr. monopoly to add more different types of chance cards. I think that will add for fun to the game.
i still have a street that vanished, i would like to know if there is any way to get it back.
Thank You
@Stylw
Yes, I know ...
But hazard/bonus building/bulldoze card are too powerful. A few millions means nothing.
Perhaps, there should be some chance cards that force to build hazard/destory bonus buulding on your own street.
Generally speaking, the card pool should be redesigned.
Is it possible to include sound effects (during building/demolition) and monopoly background music? Will make the gameplay experience more enjoyable...
@mercuryrune -- we really are reading everything...And yes, we'll let people know what changes we're making. Love the idea of the get out hazard free card...sharing with the team.
@Mat -- I wish I could explain why. That's odd.
@Liz2 -- We've heard that quite a bit...looking into it.
"Mr. Monopoly said...
@Max - thanks. Also, if you want to get rid of buildings on your own street you can always sell them back to the bank."
Like demolition, I have to relog to be able to sell more than one building.
ALSO: plz clarify wether or not having two bonus buildings on one street will make them protect the other from demolition.
Hi dear mr monopoly,
is there any answer to the problem of duplicate username instead of the "heavy loading" excuse?
@lyngs - really, you have to login to sell two buildings in a row? Hmm...that shouldn't be necessary.
Looking into your question about the two bonus buildings. In theory -- yes. In reality -- need to confirm.
@Max Power
Just saying that I know I have seen it in IE but I am not sure if other browsers are affected.
@02011212 -- fixing this is one of our main focuses right now.
Strategy? My strategy is ask for another restart if the game is not in favor to me. Cause many other players will stand on my side. lol.
Hmmm
It seems a street I had my eye on was abducted by aliens last night. It's not searchable anywhere, nor is it accessable from your Streets list when I'm near it. This is most perplexing.
I have also seen a bug. there is a freeway/highway which has been purchased. It's about 50km of dual roadway which, in my opinion, is not in the spirit of the game due to length
@Max and Mr M
I am able to sell buildings in Firefox 3.5.2 without having to reset inbetween.
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"@lyngs - really, you have to login to sell two buildings in a row? Hmm...that shouldn't be necessary."
When I click the small + next to the building nothing happens on second building. Same as demolition. After relog it works again but only once. Im using IE.
...Even if I dont confirm "sell" or "demolish" in the pop-up. I cant activate another unless I relog.
I've been using Firefox all around and it has not given me ANY problems lately. I've used Firefox 3.x and 2.x and they doth seem to take it very well... I'm also using Linux most of the time (just noting it if it helps the development team in any way). Internet Explorer (that I've also used) seems to load everything a little slower than FF, but then again IE is not the best browser to develop for...
Mr.M thank you very much for this post. I really do feel 'listened' by your continuos responses to the user's comments. I do have one myself...., I was one of the first ones to get my hands on this game (first day) and since day 2 I'm trying to get rid of a Hazzardous building but I just don't get any Chance cards that will allow me to do so. Could there be any other way (hopefully faster) to get rid of these 'wonderful' buildings that nobody wants near?
Thanks again!!
a little suggestion for making an offer..
is it possible to add a function for cancelling the made offer? somehow people may make a wrong offer and want to cancel it, but it's not allowed in the game now..
@Mannyto210
You can remove hazards by selling the street back to the bank and repurchasing it. Remember to sell your properties first. Since the bank only pays 50% on properties and streets, Make sure you will have enough money to at least repurchase the street right away.
I still can't see the game. The webpage is just black.
Tested on Opera, Firefox and Midori on Linux. Other flash sites work well.
@Jerok
Well yeah, I can do that but then I'll loose a whoooole lotta' money selling 1 Million -whatever currency this is- and over for half the price and then re-purchasing them. I'm not THAT desperate .....yet...! I'd be loosing A LOT of moeny by doing that. I think I'll have to wait more for those 'miracle chance cards' :)!
@ Bartender
What Distro are you using? What flash 'player' are you using for these browsers?
@Mannyto210
You could also just start laying down Green houses until you get bulldozer card. There's some risk as you can get chance cards that take away 1Mil+.
@Bartender
I doubt that the game would work well with a 64Bit browser in Linux. The 64Bit version of Flash is not that good yet. If you want to run in Linux, I would install 32Bit browser and newest Flash Plugin.
I don't know if this is a bug or not, but it's just shouldn't be this way. I sold a street with many buildings on it. I only receive money for the street, but no money for the buildings.
@Bartender and all
I just tested the game on Fedora Core 11 x86-64 with Shockwave Flash 10.0.r22 and Firefox 3.5.1 and it seems fine. THat's the 64Bit browser.
If you have two bonus buildings on the same street do they protect each other from being demolished?
My profiel says that i live in Katwijk,Netherlands but i live in Amstelveen,Netherlands :S:S:S can some kind of admin change that?
Grtz,
machinehunt
quick question: i am playing in Amman, Jordan and there are very few roads to buy! the first few people own the entire city! and when a few reject my offers, there is not much i can do!
the entire country of jordan has a limited roads!
any fix for this anytime soon?
there is a street that looks to be owned by two players: it's listed in MY streets, but when I click on it (in buying mode), it says someone else owns it.... the color is also darker blue, as if there is some red underneath....
Will you be adding more streets to the list of streets available for purchase?
A good feature would be to be able to highlight more than one cone when your buying your buildings. This would make the buying of multiple 50k houses much easier.
@Lyngs, @Mr. Monopoly
Just confirmed that you can demolish a bonus building on a street that has two bonus buildings. So, one bonus building does not protect the other bonus building. Looks like multiple bonus buildings is the only way to protect yourself from demolition.
-Weston
can u put up a time clock some where so u know when a new day starts?
BUG:
I can't log in anymore - after 3 days of logon/pass working just fine ... it no longer works. Selecting the recovery option, my security question is now mysteriously what looks like German: "Wie lautet der Name Ihres Haustieres?". Odd, especially considering the english "Enter new password:" that follows it ... and that I've never encountered anything in the game other than English. Finally, password recovery does not work.
Mr M -
(I am a game designer FYI)
There has got to be a better way to protect streets (actually, there needs to be a WAY to protect streets). Let's say I have a very desirable street. As soon as I place a nice building on it, whether I have a special building or not, it will be attacked. If a player can demolish my special building, then demolish my nice one, why would I ever want to buy nice buildings on a nice street (a large part of the draw to this game is owning famous/special real life streets)? It has happened to me already. The demolition card needs to be rethought. I understand That there needs to be some risk involved but it is far to easy to become the target of many jealous people who want my street and will keep sabotaging it. There needs to be a way to protect the street (like really protect it). Maybe I can pay money for protection of some sort.
I think Level 1 players should only be able to demolish level 1 buildings (via chance card), level 2 players can only demolish level 2 and lower etc. This will give an incentive to players to construct better buildings and would stop new accounts being set up just to try and sabotage particular players.
@Adam
I don't think the streets need more protection though I can image what it's like if you are being attacked alot because of the name of the street.
I would suggest filling your street first with lower value properties. THat will increase your chance of getting a bonus properties for your street. Since bonus properties prevent bulldozing of any other regular properties on the street the bonuses need to be removed before they can remove the high target properties. So once you have 1 or 2 bonus properties, you can start replacing the low value properties with more expensive to increase the rental value of the street.
Another option might be to make it so that it takes more than one, say ten, bulldoze cards to demolish a bonus building completely.
Hi,
maybe you should think about the possibility to bulldoze bonus-buildings.... If you are in your local top 10, nearly everyone destructs you. Ok, thats the game. But so it is nearly impossibel to stay longer in the top-10. i have a street with two bonus-buildings yesterday. today i logged in and the two buildings are destroyed und i have four hazards an the street (a 6,500,000 street...) how the hell should i get four bulldozer-cards and new bonus-cards that fast? as i say, thats the game, but maybe you should think about....
is there a bug?
i had 3,000 dollars in cash, but in my profile i saw 79,000 dollars (my daily rent was already taken). i tried to sign-out and re-login and taaaddaa: 79,000 dollars
@Christian
I fully agrees with you.
Yes, I think the bulldozing options needs amendments. For example, they sure not allow bonus buildings to be bulldoze (if they allow, maybe that will be another separate chance card which will only occur at 1% chance?)
If not, ALL players will begin to target users in the Top 10, this is being just so unfair !
@Jerok
"I would suggest filling your street first with lower value properties. THat will increase your chance ..."
This strategy can protect you from 1 attacker, but not 2 or more, if it's a really famous or high-return street. I've tried ...
The only way I found which really works is to call more friends to play with and form a big ally.
(Perhaps, it is the purpose of this game)
I just have this problem...
On one of my street a hazard have been build by some one... In order to prevent more hazard on the street I have put a bonus building because it was my longest street to prevent more hazards.
To my surprise the bonus have cancelled the effect of the hazard... then today I got a bulldozer but can't use it to kill this hazard... it is protected by my bonus... :(
I think the game is too shallow. What is the incentive to ever buy another street aside from liking the name?
And again I'll say it, you can talk all day about how eventually the goal is to scrap the cottages and build towers, but there are a lot of streets out there, no need to condense and build riskier and more inefficient buildings when you can just buy a new huge street and fill it with *safe* and *efficient* low level buildings.
This game needs:
1. Some sort of strategic goal and reason to get specific streets. Synergy of some sort to create desirable spots. *This is the essence of monopoly* not a single property, but the combination of certain properties giving them value higher than their parts.
2. A reason to use higher-level buildings. They've got a double whammy of both being economically inefficient and being unsafe (easy painful targets for bulldozing).
These problems are far more important than cheating, they make the game bland and uninteresting, pointless.
playing in amman, jordan, and there are very few streets to buy! and there are only 8 players or so! the first few people had a serious advantage over the rest of us!
please add more streets.....
Support Tulisin!
I hope Hasbro's game designers, not only game developers, do involve in the coming refinement.
I agree with Tulisin: the game as is today is pointless... Also, due to the daily revenue system, I can just play for 10 minutes or so every day, until I spend all available cash. Not the best gaming experience!
Anyway keep up the good work :-)
How is it that after less than a week after starting the game there are players with a score greater than 1,000,000,000,000?
How often and when do you refresh OpenStreet? Will you still refresh after the reset? I hope so!
What time is the reset happening?
how can i select the street i want to buy? i am no registed yet, i have found the street i want to buy and it does not own by any one. but i can only use the serach icon on the screem. cheers
i readd on faq that this online game ends a few months later. Thats true? if we want play more on web how can we do?
Other question is about cheatin and multiple accounts. Will u change anythin about this? And for first players on global or other list, playin is to hard for them cause they take everyday many hazard building cards, these card must be more less
@Leo
Yeah, I don't think much can help from a lot of attackers unless you have outside help. Personally, I would suggest just avoid the really popular streets if you want to win.
However I don't think that there should be a way to make a street invulnerable like people are suggesting. There needs to be a way to attack.
Or if you want a popular street fund it with other streets and don't expect much rent from it. They can't take it away from you once you own it unless you ignore purchase requests for 8 days.
The answer about bonus buildings and bulldoze indicated
"A bonus building ... protects all of the other buildings on the street from the bulldozer as long as the bonus building is still standing."
So would having two or more bonus buildings, allow
each bonus building to protect the other bonus
buildings?
Just thinking. Maybe they should limit one Hazard per street. I have no problem with stacking bonuses but stacking of Hazards just make too tough to recover from a group attack.
hello sorry if this question has already been answered, I tried to look for it but I couldn't see it. Is there any way I can change my nationality on my profile, for some reason mine says I am from the US when I'm actually form the UK? x
i got given 5 harzards in 2 days, but i never got a chance card in these 2 days...
but i dun think that it could force me to sell my streets...
this may be a very silly question but how do i buy streets that are not owned by anyone, i can't find a place/box to buy it!! it appears yellow on google maps. not blue or purple. please let me know asap
How do I use my demolish card? I go and find buildings I want to remove, but if its not on my property I can't do anything. Clicking does nothing! For something that should be user friendly this is definitely not!
-Sarah
Hello guy thanks for Q&A Info.. cant seem to change location on profile, UnknownGrand, CO, USA
For more information about OpenStreetMap please take a look at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Monopoly_City_Streets
Is there going to be a fix for netbook (1024x600) screens?
Are street grouping bonuses going to be implemented?
I don't understand why you answered that owning a bunch of streets together has no special bonus when in the "gaming rules" it says "Properties generate more rent if you own a bunch of streets together..." Could someone please explain this?
how the hell can ppl have 1,000,000,000,000 monopoly money (global leaderboard), if the game opened a few days ago. and these guys have only like max 50 streets. there is no way to achive this.
this sux
doesn't download. download bar is stuck near the end. i can even sign in and see my cash, but the screen is black. FF 3.5.3
do you have a support team to email bugs to?
Mr. Monopoly,
I have a suggestion.
Users should have the ability to pay to remove a hazard (like paying to get out of jail). It would make it less frustrating waiting for chance cards while all my money making streets have hazards.
My suggestion would be for the user to pay the bank the value of the street (with the buildings) to remove a hazard.
Or maybe a better equation would be:
The value of the street (with buildings) x your current level.
Mr. Monopoly,
I have placed bids on several streets, yet some no longer say that I'm the highest bidder nor have I received my money back - do I lose my money for bidding, or does the person that own the streets have both offers to decline/accept?
Thanks
P.S. It'd be nice if we could get alerts e-mailed to us, a user search system (can't find the git that placed a hazard on my street!) and perhaps a retract bid button.
I thought I read in the rules that streets near each other earned more $$
-tyler
www.boardgamegeek.me
Maybe same the chanse cards theat dont get used?
For example, today i got 4 Chance cards, i used 2, those were a park and a buldozer card.
The rest 2 that were Hazzard cards - i wanted to keep, but since i got my next card poped i dont have em any more.
I was under the impression that streets would gain value if you owned more streets in that area (as in the game that you named this after).
The game is pointless. Why buy a cheap street that isn't going to make any money? The houses cost the same amount but pay far less in return. Why buy an expensive building that pays less when it can easily be bulldozed away? The only "real" way to get the most out of this game is to snap up a really long million dollar street (despite where on earth it is) and put a ton of 50 or 75k houses on it.
This game took the ideas of one of my favorite board games, attempted to implement them in a real-world setting, and failed miserably. If there is no reward for getting a MONOPOLY in your area, then why even call it Monopoly.
A better idea for a game of this type would be if it were localized to big cities and you were rewarded for owning a neighborhood in that city and could build up to take over other neighborhoods and eventually the entire city. That would be a far more fun game to play and truer to the Monopoly name.
I appreciate the ideas and effort you have put into this game, and I will try it out after the reset to see what has changed, but, as it stands, I don't see the point and wonder why this game is even called Monopoly.
Hallo, in FAQ is:
Q:I can see my street on the map, but I can’t buy it. Why not?
A:Some of the smaller streets are not available for purchase in Monopoly City Streets. If it’s a larger street, please keep trying and report a problem. We will try to resolve the problem as soon as possible.
Where need i send the report?
I live on Dumbierska street, town Presov, Slovakia. I will purchase this street. This street is long enough.
Thanks.
I can't figure out how to use the bulldozer right. I see an opponents building I want to destroy, that street is not protected, but when I click on the street, I pull up his information and the red x is to see information about the building not bulldoze it. If I still have my bulldoze card open, why can't I just click on any street, then property to bulldoze it. Do I have to use the search option to find an opponent. I don't care about the top players, I care about the ones around me buying streets. I want to destroy their property then offer to buy it.
Jerok said:
"@Adam
I don't think the streets need more protection though I can image what it's like if you are being attacked alot because of the name of the street.
I would suggest filling your street first with lower value properties. THat will increase your chance of getting a bonus properties for your street. Since bonus properties prevent bulldozing of any other regular properties on the street the bonuses need to be removed before they can remove the high target properties. So once you have 1 or 2 bonus properties, you can start replacing the low value properties with more expensive to increase the rental value of the street."
Sorry but you fail. It is not hard to get a bonus building. But they are worthless. They are removed almost instantly. Why should I ever put nice buildings on my street if they will almost certainly be gone the next day?
Nice try but I think the point went over your head.
Hi,
I have jumped on the bandwagon too and started a blog about my experience of the game:
http://mymonopolystreets.blogspot.com
:)
Q: When do I get payday? It’s been more than 24 hours since the time I registered/last received payday?
A: Rent is paid out once every 24 hours, which starts and ends at Midnight GMT. You need to log in or refresh the page to receive rent.
- nope, midnight (GMT) passed, and no rent is paid to me... (and yes, I logged in just now).
So I bought 2 streets, bought some buildings and had a hazard placed on both my streets. So no rent and no money means I am now stuffed and am unable to play the game at all? Seems very silly to me?
From the game rules in the game itself: "Properties generate more rent if you own a bunch of streets together, instead of owning streets spread across many different areas."
Yet from this blog post: "Q: Does owning streets that are connected to each other have any special power/rent opportunity?
A: No."
"Mike said...
From the game rules in the game itself....+"
I caught this too. It seems like the game would be much more fun if the game rules were correct and the blog wrong. Otherwise who ever gets the best streets right after the reset, esentially win; assuming they fix the bonus/bulldozing issue.
"asteele82 said...
I can't figure out how to use the bulldozer right. I see an opponents building I want to destroy, that street is not protected
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I just realized that if I am trying to destroy a building in my hometown of an opponent it works fine, but when I'm in another city the only way I can bulldoze their building is through the search option; it won't let me just click on any road (outside of hometown) and then the building to destroy. Is this intentional or an oversight. Why would I be able to destroy any building in my hometown but not another town.
I just bought a street for $1,000,000 that apparently does not exist. When I select the property it takes me to an apparently randomly assigned spot on the map. I'm not emotionally attached to looking at my street, but this means that I cannot build on it since I can't select a location to place the buildings.
why is it in the faq doc does it say smaller streets are not available and larger streets are. I have found this to be inaccurate. There are large main roads i would expect to be on the "streets Available" List and are not, yet there are some tiny streets (some dont even have a name) that are available to buy?
I'm a newby, how can i buy a street that ain't blue (owned by other) ???
QUOTE: A bonus building protects (...)all of the other buildings on the street from the bulldozer (...).
QUESTION: Does that mean two bonus buildings on one street protect each other?
great fun so far but:
bulldzer card is not working
i can not distroy a hazard buillding on my own street!!
ow to change the sever
?
ther are free streets in my earead that i can not buy
its getting hard to find streets in my eaerar
Both my account (bugmonkey) and another account (whiskey_one) are listed as owning Thistle Place, Edinburgh Scotland?
Can two people own the same street?
Regarding the streets close together not earning more rent, the gaming rules say: "Properties generate more rent if you own a bunch of streets together, instead of owning streets spread across many different areas. Additionally, they're more valuable if they're in a populated area. Just like in the real world."
Total contradiction. WTF?
my street has been sabotaged with a hazard and its erning no rent, how to get rid of the hazard?
I still can't register ........= =
i had been try about 10+ times already....
When i press ''buy'' ....then he call me to register....after i finished enter some information..i click ''register'' but he doesn't run.......i click for more than 20 times already !
How can ?
I am getting the same Wie lautet der Name Ihres Haustieres? message as reisod was getting yesterday. I have been getting it since 9/11. I haven't been able to get on for days.
Hi there,
I built (30 minutes ago) a "Gitter-Building" onto my street called "Lassalleweg" in the town Weissenfels, Germany. It was the 5th building onto this street. The thing is, my account was charged twice. One "Gitter-building" is about $500000, but it was charged $1000000.
So, PLEASE PLEASE transfer the money back - it is $500000. My nickname is blomsom.
Thank you very much!!
PS: While confirming the building, there was an error message on the screen saying there is a problem with the connection to the server machines.
offer to buy a building results in "you are limited to 10 a day" !!! i haven't made any offers ???
Mr. M,
Is there a benefit to having multiple Bonus Buildings on a given street? i.e. a bonus building would not allow a *different* bonus building on the same street to be bulldozed and vice versa?
Question: Sorry i didn't find a forum and its not in the FAQ i got a Hazard building on one of my top streets, and recently i got a bulldozing card. But I can'T make it to work, i had a couple of them which enabled my to build hazard buildings and they worked fine but i can't get this one to work.
I click on the street with the building I want to erase and the street card pops up but i don't have any options to chose from, and on the card itsself(besides the text telling me i can bulldoze whatever i like) it just tells me "find opponent" and "discard". So can anyone explain to me how that is supposed to work ?
Are we ever going to know just how the actual scoring works? Streets that are connected together has nothing special to them so is there any reason to not have streets all over the world that are in the one million range because they are longer and can hold more and seem to have a better pay out.
But thats just one thing, I would like to know the entire scoring so we can make a good strategy in order to increase our chances of winning.
Why can I not bulldoze a hazard on my street when I get a bulldozer card???? Very Annoying, had about 10 bulldozer cards and I have to discard them all as it wont let me do anything with it
Hi there! I have got an offer to one of my streets but when im click on the message i can't read it. It does not pop up there is only a data sheet appears about my street which he wanted to buy. I am afraid that he will get my street because I cant ignore his offer. Did I missed something? Please help me. Thx
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My profile says I am from the Netherlands, but I am not. My friend, who entered the game on exact the same computer (with the same internet provider), has 'Belgium' in his profile (which is correct). Either way, we should be able to change this information in our profiles.
There is also obviously a minimum age for registering. It would be nice to get an error message when you enter an 'unwanted' birthday instead of endlessly showing the message 'loading'.
I have the problem of streets that are owned by TWO players - it's coloured in some kind of purple (red+/blue?). This is obviously an error.
Still, this game is geniously simple and amzingly addictive. Hope the reset brings lots of good!
i keep getting this on log on
Demolish any building you like (or don't like!)
Get the dynamite out. Demolish any opponent's building or any Hazard buildings placed on your own streets.
When i search for someone i can not use the card. I can' t use it and it won't go away. Even on streets with no bonus buildings. I don't get the option to use it.
I have a small issue. I can't use the buldozer card. I get two buldozer card but want i select a road, mine or not, i don't have a button to destroy a building or to select one. Every time i canect, the card pops-up but i can't use it. How do I use this card?
Can I keep bonus cards before playing them? Or do I have to play them as soon as I get one?
For example: when receiving a demolish card, do I have to demolish a building directly or will the button 'Demolish this building' still be available later?
Boy, I can't wait until this game starts for real. The questions asked in this blog make it quite clear that most people have no clue what they are doing.
@Mr. M,
Don't allow people to bulldoze hazards on streets they do not own. That will make teams even easier to form and new/individual players will be squeezed out.
My account seems to have been stolen by someone.
My user name was the "TheBrain" and some how that person managed to take control of my account and I can no longer log into it. My random pet question was not straight forward either so would be surprised if that person managed to guess it. Is it possible that they also created a "TheBrain" account and it over wrote mine?
Hello, I have a card of fate, to demolish any building, select the list and out of my adversaries, and select one, however can not leave demolish any building, nor mine, nor a amenzante,
What can I do?
I really think three things:-
1) chance cards and money should be given for frequency of activity and not for buying, this means longer online more chance to play (Isnt that the aim? To keep people playing longer>>)
2) Money should be given more frequently ie. every 6 or 12 hours.. then people wouldnt just use money and log off surely>
3)Bonus buildings must not be able to be taken down by bulldozers... otherwise, why are they really a bonus?
@ sedux:
To use bonus 'destroy' card you must click on the red cross next to the building.
hallo
I bought some streets and they are already in my portfolio but I can't build anything because when I try it's like if I hadn't bought them...
Further more I was able to buy the same street four times...
Please help me! Thanks, PA BLO
Hi, Today I faced a new problem, I have an road where in two bonus building have been built. But few hours back, one of the opponent bulldozed one of my building, not the bonus building. I thought I am safe from all these if I have an bonus building. Can you include an option of searching an opponent in monopoly?
Thanks Sharath
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I haven't gotten any chance cards or anything yet either :(
This game needs some more action! I lose my interest after a few minutes.
4 chance cards in a row....and over 4 million in fines!!!It's bad enough to wait 24 hours for rent then for it all to go to fines.....and whats wrong with the bulldozer cards and lack of bonus chance cards....im giving this game one more go round if it dosen't improve im probably done ith it....was a nice effort tho-------Jeff
@Mr. Monopoly,
you need to change the rule that allows people to demolish Bonus Buildings. The point of bonus buildings is to "protect your street from hazards and bulldozers". What's the point of having a bonus building that can just be demolished and then a bunch of people place hazards on your street. It's illogical for someone to be able to demolish a bonus building.
Or here's another idea...have there be some other way to get rid of hazards like pay to have them removed.
If you could do either of these ideas, the game will be much better. Thanks
I wanted to send an offer, and it sais I can send only 10 offers a day - however it was my very first! Is that a bug?
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How do I retrieve the money I bid on a property if I'm outbid or the owner wants more money or I simply change my mind?
My newest strategy is build in the last minute.
It's impossible to keep up with hazard placed on your building so best to keep ONE of your streets empty.
Keep few millions in bank and IF you have hazard on your street, you better start building like heck to get the chance card to remove hazard before the reset. Mine is 8 PM EST.
How is posible, if only have 3 days playing wath a player have 776 streeths? and M 2,207,290,000 ? Im not understand. Excuseme my poor english.
I have been playing for a 2 weeks now and for some reason when I login in it tells me there is a problem... When I registered, I was asked a security question - how do I login if the system is not picking up my username? It keeps telling me there isnt a player with that name? UniversalProp
those idiots f...ed up the game - I can't log in in my own account and when I go to my streets it says they belong to somebody else. hasbro are incompetent tools
why is it in a differnet language!!!!!
I think that the Taxes need to be re-thought. If you start building more than a certain amount, then you do not get to make any money for the game. IE... your taxes = your income...
"Q: How does daily tax work?
A: There is only one certainty in MONOPOLY City Streets. Tax. Just like in real life, tax now plays an integral part of the game. Tax works as follows: The first 5 streets owned are not taxed. Thereafter the current tax rate is 3% PER STREET you own. For example, if you own 15 streets your tax will be 30% of your total rent collected every day. If you own 25 streets your tax will be 60%. Remember, at 38 streets you will effectively be taxed 100% and so won’t be making any profit and your bank balance won’t increase."
So, there really is no incentive to keep playing for long. I think taxes should be set at a certain percentage per level, sort of like real taxes.
is that one day per one chances card?
if not why i only get one chances card but i play for a whole day?
I keep on getting 'demolition' chance cards. If I discard the chance card, does that actually get rid of it or do I have to use it to get rid of it? I've gotten about 5 chance cards in a row and they are all the 'demolition' card? Do I have to use it to get a different type of card e.g. build a school? card
I have the same problems as others. I get a demolition card, then go to one of my buildings and can't demo it. I select the + sign next to the building and nothing happens. For that matter, I can never see information about one of my buildings when selecting the +.
Causing some pain as I can't get rid of any of the hazards people are placing on my streets. Very frustrating.
I'm with Partzz on the taxes issue... How can you become a "mogul", if you're effectively limited to owning 38 streets? At that point, the only thing to do is sell smaller streets and buy bigger streets... but I bought the small streets for a reason. Once I get them built up, what reason do I have to keep playing?
I can understand having a sliding scale of increasing taxes based on streets or income. That's life... the more you make, the more you're taxed. But to make it so you can get to a point where literally all your income goes to taxes... that just doesn't make sense to me.
i built 14 buildings, and didnt receive any card. Someone bulldozed my only street and i got stuck. what can i do now? nothing? just wait forever because i have no rent?
The game still has problems. I got a Bulldozer Chance card and tried to remove the hazard on my street. I put the mouse cursor on the red cross and got "View information about this building" - but clicking it does not offer the option to remove the hazard.
If the rent everyday equals = total value of the portfolio ( streets and buildings )
then why is it that I seem to be getting only the rental value of each building ? BUT according to the FAQ it says " Players will automatically receive rent based on the total value of their property portfolio (streets and buildings)"
For a simple example: If I buy 2 streets worth $1 million each and add 2 buildings on each with rental value of 25,000 each, hence everyday I log in I should get a DAILY total rental value of $2,100,000 ( streets and buildings )and NOT JUST $100,000, Correct ?? Or am I confused ?
Q - How often is rent paid?
A - Players will automatically receive rent based on the total value of their property portfolio (streets and buildings). Rent is calculated on a daily basis, based on the time you create you profile rent is then paid every 24 hours after that.
I recived 2 chance cards the first day I played and have not recived another one in over 7 days. How can I remove the hazards on my streets if the game wont let me recive cards?
I bought a High Reach Place on Stewart Rd for $200,000 and it didn't appear, but it took the money out of my bank. I built two more on the street and they showed up fine. The card for that street says there are 2 buildings on it but it should have 3. Is this a known bug?
why everyday i onli receive Demolish card?
and i only get 1 card per day...
it is a bug or what?
have still yet to recieve rent, and i logged on plenty of times the past day, whats up? its now 12:44 gmt, people are destroying my property and i cant do anything cause i have yet to get my rent
I've been re-playing since a few hours after the restart now, and own some very expensive streets and have gotten to level 3, with 38 million
despite owning very long streets and over 40 buildings (and building new each day) i have yet to receive a single chance card
Not one, nothing
This is surely not right, my friend gets one every so often, yet i've had none, i want to bulldoze hazards and build special buildings but this is beyond a joke now
is this a bug? because i understand randomly getting them but surely by now i'd have had one?
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when i click on buy streets at some places it comes up saying no streets available to buy in this area. How can i buy streets in that area
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