Monopoly City Streets: Send us an email

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Send us an email

Just a reminder: the email address for reporting bugs, complaints or other problems is: monopolycitysts@gmail.com. It seems that many game play issues are still being listed here in the blog.

We also hear your frustration about cheaters -- we are listening and we will be taking action.

On the plus side, we are not experiencing any server issues and we're not hearing many complaints about major bugs or malfunctions -- and we're also getting great feedback from people about how much fun they are having with the game. That's great news!

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Stylw said...: Vist A Monopoly City Streets fansite at monopolycitystreetshq.org for forums, guides, screenshots, technical support, live chat and more!.

monopolycitystreetshq.org

An in-Game Chat has been Developed by nick, learn how to use it here.

http://monopolycitystreetshq.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=215&sid=87e73a0ec026e71a89b194c85b99b5bf; September 19, 2009 7:52 PM
monopolyhq said...: Good to know that cheaters will be actively taken care of. Does this mean i can stop wasting my hazard and bulldozing cards on them? They shouldn't be that hard to sniff out, all the top 10 leaderboards ought to be continuously verified.

http://monopolyhq.com for all the latest strategies and tips; September 19, 2009 7:55 PM
sergiocg said...: Hi. I want to change my starting location from the Philippines to Guatemala. Is there any way to edit my profile?
Thank You.; September 19, 2009 8:19 PM
Kruelgor said...: Yes, I am having a lot of fun with MCS. Thanks for creating it. I hope you start a new season February 1st. This game is too awesome to ditch.; September 19, 2009 8:23 PM
blahmenator said...: just so long as you're careful when looking at IPs, because some households share an internet connection so you could get as many as 5 people from one IP, and they might be trading with each other to help each other (as a sort-of alliance) which might otherwise look suspicious.

other than that, nice job on the game =); September 19, 2009 9:10 PM
phour28 said...: Theoretically your networth can be at any amount since a player can make infinite number of trades or transactions; September 19, 2009 9:25 PM
Jack said...: MAJOR STREET ERROR

There's a street called Seneca Creek Greenway Trail near Germantown in Maryland USA and it's worth $3,588,405,000.

This is due to an error in the game because the street just ends up going horizontally left all the way across the Atlantic Ocean and ends up in Spain.

See the following screenshots:

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/2189/seneca1.jpg

http://img32.imageshack.us/img32/8734/seneca2e.jpg; September 19, 2009 9:40 PM
bernd said...: would be nice if you take action..i got 4 hazards at the same time on my first two streets from different player-names as revenge for one i build.

i have no income so playing is no fun. maybe i should get a second account...; September 19, 2009 9:40 PM
unemployed said...: I think the game CITIESXL doesn't have cheaters.

It is why Hasbro was in a hurry to launch monopolycitystreets. Because an other opponent was arriving.

But fighting cheaters is fun too.; September 19, 2009 9:45 PM
Nathaniel Dame said...: Interesting discussion about cheaters on this blog--join us!!

www.MonopolyCityStreetsSecrets.com; September 19, 2009 9:53 PM
BrightPrestige said...: Hmm, so I guess the game is supposed to be a sort of long term thing, huh? I'm only on for 10 minutes a day. I get my money, spend it all, and then have to wait another 24 hours before I get another check.; September 19, 2009 9:55 PM
= said...: What is cheating? An alliance could be considered cheating.

I have five accounts, I've imposed my own no trade no interaction rule between them. I just want to try the game in different parts of the world. Is this cheating? No.

Are we still beta-testing for the pay to play game coming in January that will wipe out 99% of cheats? Yes.; September 19, 2009 10:10 PM
anne said...: OK-so could you please clarify, is having multiple accounts considered cheating, or strategy?
I really think we need an answer one way or the other!
I'm getting tired of that topic myself.
On another topic, I just verified for myself that when you sell a street, the houses that you have built go with it, good to know!
(I thought I saw somewhere that they were supposed to vanish).
So, when you buy a street with buildings on it, you get to keep the buildings.
I'm wondering if it is possible to sell buildings back to the bank when you have a counter-offer pending?
I was unable to do anything to my street that had an offer on it, 'till I sent a counter-offer, but instead-of trying to sell-off my houses, I built one and it did jack the price up a bit. (over the offer price!)
The buyer then paid the listed price, and they got the street along-with the house that was not there when they made the offer.
(just thought I'd change the subject a litte).
There are a lot of things that we can do in this game besides worry about who's "cheating" and who's not!
Since Mr. Monopoly has mentioned cheating in his last two messages, (and most of the commenters as well), I really would like to know what kind-of cheating he is talking about!
Is this just another excuse for a re-set????
I'm excited to see what ever happens with our 7-day offers and some of the other features, (time deliniated), that we have not had a chance to experience yet, I hope that we get that chance!
If we get to vote again, and i hope that we don't, I vote that you may as well allow multi-accounts, and allow it as part of the game strategy, just like in BINGO, you can buy as many cards as you can handle.
There really is no way to discern how many people in one household are playing and since this is a family game, the more players in a house the better!
The game is designed perfectly for more than one account from the way that I see it ,but I don't want too get involved in using that as a strategy myself if I have to worry about having a highway that I sat and clicked & waited for 400 properties to appear being deleted!
(ok-I don't know how that player did that, but if they used anything other than human-power would that be cheating??).
There have been some good suggestions here, such-as opening-up future games with different groups allowed to play.
Player could maybe even agree on their own rules & police themselves?
If it is possible to build scripts, why not even have a game that allows the use of scripts as a challenge?
With multiple smaller groups playing the game, on different boards if that is possible, we would have more chance to get those special streets that we want.
I can even imagine a round-robin/March Madness type tournament where winners of smaller games advance to another game with the winners from other games.
The only way to really control "cheating" at this point is the honor system, or having players sign some kind of pledge or TOS that they agree to,that clearly defines what is and what is not cheating, not some ambiguous "don't annoy people".
Please don't allow haters & cry-babies to make up the rules to the game!
They have plenty of opportunity to unite and sabotage suspected cheaters with those sewage-cards etc.
-Yep, I wrote a book here, but really MR. MONOPOLY, we really need to know what the rules are here and what you mean exactly by "cheating".; September 19, 2009 10:12 PM
Laibeus Lord said...: @Jack might be the atlantic undersea tunnel or something? (Sorry I don't live there to know that tunnel :p )

@= Your argument re: "pay to play game coming" sounds very very familiar... new blogger account?; September 19, 2009 10:16 PM
D Childress said...: just in my local leaderboard you could make an argument for all 10 players being suspicious. all over $60,000,000 some with 0% activity... how does that work?; September 19, 2009 10:19 PM
Saman Skjellerup said...: This post has been removed by the author.; September 19, 2009 10:22 PM
Carl said...: Let me check on this again.. what exactly constitute a cheater?

any multiple account by same ip?

any multiple account by same ip even if not acting as if helping each other?

any multiple account by same ip that act in unison but not in malicious ways to others?

any multiple account by same ip that act in unison and are acting in ways malicious to others?

Hackers?

What is a cheater? definition please. A clear definition could help thin down the list of what users report.; September 19, 2009 10:32 PM
Carl said...: Oh and btw, there are comparatively NO STREETS on every other continent compare to North America.

I know this is not caused by any game mechanism. bit could it be an incentive to users who wish to supplement the maps?; September 19, 2009 10:36 PM
peaxe9 said...: SOUTH AFRICAN FORUMS
for
monopolycitystreets

http://www.citystreets.co.za
http://www.citystreets.co.za
http://www.citystreets.co.za; September 19, 2009 10:52 PM
Saman Skjellerup said...: Bah, had an error in my spreadsheet. Deleted my post.; September 19, 2009 10:58 PM
Super Rei said...: @Carl

Don't bother on IP address. Cheating is: multiple account by SAME PLAYER.; September 19, 2009 11:05 PM
mr-tom said...: Just wanted to say, thanks - this is an improvement on the old version.

I do think you've got the wrong idea on tax and email verification, and I'm dubious about your tough line on cheats, when the leaderboards are dominated by the, but I can take a wait-and-see approach with that one!

Any way, the main thing is this, good work!; September 19, 2009 11:12 PM
Nick said...: There is NO reason to have more than 1 account, by yourself. That is cheating, enjoy the ban.; September 19, 2009 11:21 PM
MartinM said...: Google, please admit cheaters in the play!. That is one of the things that makes this play interesting.
Cheaters exist in real life. They spend all their time trying to accumulate more and more. In the meanwhile, other people just dedicate a reasonable to generate the neccesary resources to maintain itself in the play (representation of real life).
Like in real life, I think that the interesting thing is not to be better than others. The challenge is to improve ourselves, improve our decisions.
For instance, in my case, instead of to see the leaderstable I employ an Excel spreadsheet to measure how good were my investments decisions. I enjoy the play as is now, with its bugs and situations that are not completly fair, etc. (like life). My advise is: try to use the time you play as a way to learn, no matter if you are in the leaderstable or not..., do not care about cheaters, they are present everywhere we go...; September 20, 2009 12:04 AM
Boardi said...: Besucht die deutsche Community:

http://www.mycitystreets.de
http://www.mycitystreets.de
http://www.mycitystreets.de; September 20, 2009 12:05 AM
mematalimon said...: este post en ESPAÑOL en

http://monopolyparaarmar.blogspot.com/

muchas gracias!; September 20, 2009 12:50 AM
Manu said...: Wenn ihr noch einen DEUTSCHSPRACHIGE Community sucht, kommt zu uns. Hier findet ihr Gleichgesinnte, Tipps, Tricks, Anfangsstrategien und vielen mehr ....

http://www.mycitystreets.de
http://www.mycitystreets.de
http://www.mycitystreets.de

http://www.mycitystreets.de
http://www.mycitystreets.de
http://www.mycitystreets.de

Wir freuen uns auf Euch!!!; September 20, 2009 12:54 AM
Manu said...: Wenn ihr noch einen DEUTSCHSPRACHIGE Community sucht, kommt zu uns. Hier findet ihr Gleichgesinnte, Tipps, Tricks, Anfangsstrategien und vielen mehr ....

http://www.mycitystreets.de
http://www.mycitystreets.de
http://www.mycitystreets.de

Wir freuen uns auf Euch!!!; September 20, 2009 12:55 AM
wincitystreets said...: the cheaters are ruining the game ! the tax rules are mad ! but I'm still a fan

www.wincitystreets.com

Wincitystreets is an unofficial community for players of the fantastic free global online game Monopoly City Streets.

Our forum allows you to keep up to date with everything to do with the Monopoly City Streets game and to see what everybody else's up to. The forums include sections on the rules FAQS , gameplay, strategy, tips and tricks. You can create your own blogs and follow other players thoughts, campaigns and disasters.

Registering is easy and FREE. So please join in !; September 20, 2009 1:43 AM
Super Rei said...: @MartinM

A new excuse to allow cheating?

Yes there are cheaters in real life but we try our best to send the to jail also.; September 20, 2009 1:45 AM
Ludo said...: Alliance portal: alliance.mymonopolycitystreets.com
Forum: www.mymonopolycitystreets.com
Wiki: wiki.mymonopolycitystreets.com
Chat: chat.mymonopolycitystreets.com
Polls: www.mymonopolycitystreets.com/Polls; September 20, 2009 1:50 AM
test said...: EN ESPAÑOL
http://citystreets.es
http://citystreets.es
http://citystreets.es
http://citystreets.es

EN FRANÇAIS
http://citystreets.fr
http://citystreets.fr
http://citystreets.fr
http://citystreets.fr

PRONTO EL FORO - BIENTÔT LE FORUM
http://forum-monopoly.com/
http://forum-monopoly.com/
http://forum-monopoly.com/
http://forum-monopoly.com/; September 20, 2009 2:10 AM
Wai said...: Are people seriously asking what is cheating? A 6 years old knows what cheating is. You play monopoly with a 6 years old kid, and if you play with 2 pieces and have one give stuff to the other, he knows you're a cheater. He doesn't' need a rule in the rulebook to say that is cheating. Seriously, people need a definition to tell them what is cheating? SERIOUSLY?; September 20, 2009 2:54 AM
paolino said...: TO STOP CHEATING:

If UserA want to trade with UserB, he can do it ONLY IF BOTH USERS are ONLINE.

If UserB isn't online at that moment, UserA can send him a message (but now it is impossible) and arrange an appointment with him.
If UserB don't respond in 7 days, negotations are deemed not accepted.

Simple and effective, didn't it?; September 20, 2009 3:19 AM
adhome said...: You can read gamil emails in ext. programms.
Special this amount of mails.
And we have here a special day. We call it weekend.; September 20, 2009 3:22 AM
Rolf said...: Good suggestion paolino ... just like in real life! In connection with an IP-recognition (both user online plus different IP's) it should work ...; September 20, 2009 3:26 AM
Nico Rudd said...: I Agree, the top ten should be continuously veryfied, because I can't understand how it's possible to earn 1'000'000'000 M in 3 days...

Anyways, it's a great game and i'm enjoying it a lot !; September 20, 2009 3:32 AM
AJ said...: I keep getting an error: "Unfortunately, you can't send anymore more offers today. You can only send 10 per day"

But I've not made a single offer since I started playing, and now I get this bullshit.; September 20, 2009 3:36 AM
Alexandre said...: i get the same thing as AJ; September 20, 2009 3:55 AM
DottorPagliaccius said...: I still can't log in; September 20, 2009 4:00 AM
mercuryrune said...: Are all you whiners massive idiots too?
The top 10 isn't money...
IT'S SCORE!
You get good points for trading properties and such. Check the profile of most of those people, and you will see that they tend to have almost non-existant funds.
Mr Monopoly: nothing's broken except your player base. Don't change a damn thing! Good work on getting the game to this point!; September 20, 2009 4:00 AM
test said...: EN ESPAÑOL
http://citystreets.es
http://citystreets.es
http://citystreets.es
http://citystreets.es

EN FRANÇAIS
http://citystreets.fr
http://citystreets.fr
http://citystreets.fr
http://citystreets.fr

PRONTO EL FORO - BIENTÔT LE FORUM
http://forum-monopoly.com/
http://forum-monopoly.com/
http://forum-monopoly.com/
http://forum-monopoly.com/; September 20, 2009 4:26 AM
Ludo said...: Alliance portal: alliance.mymonopolycitystreets.com
Forum: www.mymonopolycitystreets.com
Wiki: wiki.mymonopolycitystreets.com
Chat: chat.mymonopolycitystreets.com
Polls: www.mymonopolycitystreets.com/Polls; September 20, 2009 4:32 AM
Tempest said...: Find valuable streets that have not been taken yet:

monopolystreetfinder.blogspot.com

Be the first to get them!; September 20, 2009 4:39 AM
Ma braderie said...: Why do you never care about your players who ask you to restart and tell us the exact time of the re-openning... it will be great for everybody who loved your game last week and this week a lot less..; September 20, 2009 4:42 AM
Robin said...: I've built 45 buildings on 3 streets and received a total of 4 chance cards. Is that abnormal to anyone else? I was averaging a Chance card every 4 or 5 buildings before the reset.; September 20, 2009 4:47 AM
Coride said...: Give your opinion!

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=pt_PT&formkey=dDREU0dldy1PZ0xLZk5iWUc4OGdTVWc6MA..; September 20, 2009 4:51 AM
Matto said...: They seem to be fixing some things in the background.

You can't mortgage the same street multiple times any more (by making multiple negative cash offers).; September 20, 2009 4:52 AM
RoboBert said...: it would be nice to rank the streets by price / availibility in the drop down menus.
it would help the game play if the streets you can buy are on top, then the more expensive to the cheaper.

what do you think?; September 20, 2009 5:00 AM
Super Rei said...: @Matto

So bank overdraft is really possible by negative offer. I think let a player mortgage a street may be a good idea but at least in a more "official" way. And some trade off should be given. Like mortgaged streets receive no rent for the day.; September 20, 2009 5:05 AM
blogger24 said...: Neues inofizielles Forum:

http://mcsforum.de; September 20, 2009 5:07 AM
HW Builder said...: To Nico re value after 3 days

I bought a street for 6.5m yesterday and overnight got an income of $30m.
Bought a street for 19m and started building green houses got chance card that fined me $10,600,000.
Had to sell my old street to build, now have an income on my new street of $200,000,000.

Rent is value of street in millions x cost of property.

To all of you protecting and building small streets, don’t. Trade up as much as you can.
I only got $5m for the old street and buildings at half price but that $5m now earns me $195m in rent. If I can find a street for $200m tomorrow I will because if I then sell my present lot to the bank for $12.5m and use to build on a 200m street my income will be 200x12.5m = $5 billion.

done with one account!!!!!!; September 20, 2009 5:13 AM
Matto said...: @Super Rei - the fact that they've fixed it so that you can no longer abuse the negative cash offer plus a street does lend it some legitimacy in my opinion.

It may be a legitimate alternative to selling streets back to the bank - make a genuine offer at 75% of the value of the street your are mortgaging.

I have no control over streets I have mortgaged - can't build, sell (or remortgage any more). But I don't know what happens to the rent.; September 20, 2009 5:16 AM
Ro said...: DEBATE Y CREA TU ALIANZA, COMPARTE CONOCIMIENTOS Y APRENDE!

FOROS EN ESPAÑOL ENTRA YA!
FOROS EN ESPAÑOL ENTRA YA!
FOROS EN ESPAÑOL ENTRA YA!; September 20, 2009 5:35 AM
Ludo said...: List of cheaters: http://mymonopolycitystreets.info/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=267; September 20, 2009 5:47 AM
Mino said...: Hi, I am a slovak player and I have a big problem. One person with 7 accounts completely destroyed me. He cheats with these accounts and one, has value 110 000 000. He is buying streets and selling to other accounts. Names of his accounts are:

JULIUSBACO
JULOBACO
JULOBACO2
JULOBACO3
JULOBACO4
JULOBACO5
JULOBACO6

Please, delete this cheater.; September 20, 2009 5:53 AM
Mino said...: He has 12 accounts!!!
Please, delete all his accounts. Here are all of his accounts:

JULIUSBACO (Main acc)

JULOBACO
JULOBACO2
JULOBACO3
JULOBACO4
JULOBACO5
JULOBACO6
OKNO
SLUCHATKA
BACKSPACE
ZOSIT
VEZA; September 20, 2009 6:03 AM
Richard said...: Cheating is also a strategy, the most effective one actually.; September 20, 2009 6:38 AM
Shelby Rasmuson said...: It's pretty obvious a person at the top of the leaderboard with 0% activity is a cheater...; September 20, 2009 6:43 AM
celtiberian said...: Multi-accounts is not cheating because its not forbidden on the rules.... Come on!; September 20, 2009 7:13 AM
HW Builder said...: agree with celtiberian, but with $5,ooo,ooo,ooo tomorrow why do you need to? yes that is $5 billion. see above post as to how on one account.; September 20, 2009 7:26 AM
test said...: EN ESPAÑOL
http://citystreets.es
http://citystreets.es
http://citystreets.es
http://citystreets.es

EN FRANÇAIS
http://citystreets.fr
http://citystreets.fr
http://citystreets.fr
http://citystreets.fr

PRONTO EL FORO - BIENTÔT LE FORUM
http://forum-monopoly.com/
http://forum-monopoly.com/
http://forum-monopoly.com/
http://forum-monopoly.com/; September 20, 2009 8:06 AM
Wally said...: I agree with HW Builder. Once you get a $30million street and build even just green houses on it, the next day you can't help but have half a billion in rent coming in. So then take that half billion and just before the next rental period, find another $40million street and put up as many of the largest buildings you can for your level.

If you buy a 600k building on a $40million street, your rent per building is $28,000,000. So do the math- your $450million or so in rent = 750 600k buildings (just doing straight math, not accounting for the time this would take or the negative chance cards you might get). 750 buildings renting at $28million per day is 21,000,000,000 in rent.

Will you put up 750 buildings? It's irrelevant- the point is the math is exponential. $30million turns in to $500 million overnight and $500million turns into (with apologies to Carl Sagan) billions, and billions.; September 20, 2009 8:09 AM
mark said...: Join the monopoly city streets forum, some good chat going on!; September 20, 2009 8:10 AM
My-Memories said...: COME ON ! NO ACTIONS ARE TAKEN AGAINST CHEATERS !
COME ON ! NO ACTIONS ARE TAKEN AGAINST CHEATERS !
COME ON ! NO ACTIONS ARE TAKEN AGAINST CHEATERS !
COME ON ! NO ACTIONS ARE TAKEN AGAINST CHEATERS !
COME ON ! NO ACTIONS ARE TAKEN AGAINST CHEATERS !

COME ON, I HAD SENT E-MAIL TO YOU GUYS ALREADY. WHO CAN GET MORE THAN 100MILLION JUST PLAYING FOR LESS THAN 2 DAYS !!! I CAN'T EVEN EARN MORE THAN 3 MILLION YET. SINGAPORE HAS 2 WITH MORE THAN 70MILLION. !!!

TAKE YOUR ACTION FAST AGAINST CHEATING !!!

TAKE YOUR ACTION FAST AGAINST CHEATING !!!

TAKE YOUR ACTION FAST AGAINST CHEATING !!!

TAKE YOUR ACTION FAST AGAINST CHEATING !!!

TAKE YOUR ACTION FAST AGAINST CHEATING !!!; September 20, 2009 8:12 AM
Kajl said...: Halooo!
I cannot login into my account!
I have logged out, and then when I wanted to login again it said that the password is incorrect, but it IS correct...
Help ;(; September 20, 2009 8:14 AM
mark said...: Thanks for the email address, please get rid of the cheating. People are complaining on our forum; September 20, 2009 8:15 AM
Wally said...: @my-memories. You are buying the wrong streets! Find yourself a $2million street and put up green houses. They'll each pay you over $100k in rent- for some streets, much more. So, your spare $1million turns into 20 green houses and $2million overnight.

Tomorrow, use that $2million and put up another 40 green houses. You then have 60, your rent overnight on day2 is $6million. Take your $6million and put up green houses. You now have 100. Your rent overnight on day 3 is $10,000,000

Take your $10,000,000 and buy green houses. you now have 200. Your rent overngight on day 4 is $20,000,000.

No trading, no cheating, no nothing, just playing the game, buying one property and building.

You also do what HW said- trade up your streets. By the time you get a $40million street, you will have $500,000,000 or more coming in overnight, then the next day, you are a billionaire.

It doesn't take much time. It takes a good street to start, and the sense not to screw people with demo and hazard cards and make yourself a target.; September 20, 2009 8:18 AM
Wally said...: lol.. my math is pretty shabby. on day 3, you'd have 120 houses, not 100, and your rent would be $12million, not 10.

On day 4, you'd take your $12million and buy 240 green houses, giving you 360, and $36million in rent. Or, more likely, you'd have traded to to a more expensive street, bought fewer additional green houses but would be receiving far more than $100k for them.

See what I mean re exponential?; September 20, 2009 8:32 AM
Enigma said...: Well, once you're actually making some progress you hit the leaderboards and then you're screwed. Kind of sucks to have a game that is so easy to cheat in and also so easy to screw over other people in. I really don't understand the reasoning here. It only takes like five people messing with you daily for the game to be impossible to play. Great idea, very bad implementation.; September 20, 2009 8:32 AM
Patrickometry said...: Isn't it possible, given the rules, to calculate how much a single user can legitimately make in each 24 hour round of game play? If yes, then why can't the administrators of Monopoly City Streets simply delete all accounts which exceed the money ceiling based on the number of days they've been playing. Perhaps this won't work after the game has been live past a certain number of days but at the beginning it should be obvious who is cheating based upon their bank accounts, yes?

Example: after just 2 rounds of play, no player should legitimately be able to exceed a certain dollar amount but if they have then their account is found through a simple search and immediately deleted. Won't this work? If not deleted, then perhaps the excess money could be automatically returned to the bank?

Since the game has only been live for 2-3 days now, why haven't the accounts with 100's of millions and billions of dollars not been immediately deleted?

It's disheartening to see them honored and featured on the leaderboards.; September 20, 2009 8:37 AM
Wally said...: @enigma- no arguement there, though I will say that if you go with the long street, green houses strategy to start, you end up getting lots of chance cards because you are building so much. Yes, some will be crappy tax cards, some will be demo cards and hazards (which I suggest you don't use without a reason), but some will be $500k for you, and some will be bonus buildings.

So, you can protect yourself to some degree, by putting up as many bonuses as you can, by not attracting attention to yourself and by being aware of where you stand relative to the leader board.; September 20, 2009 8:38 AM
HW Builder said...: @wally
I agree re hazard and demo. I havent used any that have given to me. I still get hit because am at the top of local leader borad but I now have my main street protected by 6 bonus buildings (got given 15 hazard cards on the way including a fine of +$10m). I expct that to be down to only 1 or 2 by tonight.; September 20, 2009 8:40 AM
Wally said...: @patrickometry- no, absolutely not possible. The math really is exponential and what you could earn is dependent on too many variables- whether you sold a property for a profit or not, how much that profit was, what kind of streets you own, what kind of buildings you put up, how many lucky chance cards you got, what you did with the money.; September 20, 2009 8:42 AM
celestino said...: the big problem in the game is the "Hazzard", because the cheaters use them to atack other people and sometimes it's a massive atack. everybody can fight against multiple acounts and unfair trading. but its imposible fight against a cheater with multiple acounts that atack with hazards and demolish another player.
I discard every hazard and use the demolition card if someone else put in my street an prison for example. if everybody disscard the hazrds the game will be better and more friendly, like the real one.; September 20, 2009 8:44 AM
anne said...: Anyone else get the feeling like we're still beta-testing this darn thing?
I received that same error telling me that I had made ten trades already when i had only made one.
The one trade that I did make-I negotiated back and forth a little, so maybe the machine counted that as trades, but in reality it was only one street traded and then I was blocked with the message.
As far as complaints to ban those with unusual amounts of money, like the person with 777 streets, why not let time play them off?
Either they get rid of most of the streets, or tax will get them.
Hopefully we will have an answer about multi-accounts soon.
I tried playing with the search-engine to look for Halloween-theme streets, "Spooky Lane", and others and there still are many many many streets that are purple.
"Murder Street" brings up an entire list of towns with great streets available.; September 20, 2009 8:46 AM
Reality said...: @wally

You have hit the nail on the head. The real problem here is the rents. I was able to get a $10 million street without cheating (a little luck with the $500k cards and sale of cheaper properties). now, for each little green house I get $500,000!!! I dont have many yet, but when I load up I'll really be raking it in. This is not right! It causes exponential growth in rents. In a few days I'll probably have 38 $10million+ streets loaded with high priced buildings and the game will be over for me. It would be better is the rents increased at a decreasing rate with size (in calculus... rent'>0 and rent''<0). This would make the strategy more interesting and the outcome less prone to luck. Also, it would make some of the smaller streets interesting to own (if the tax were removed... or based on street value rather than number of streets).; September 20, 2009 8:57 AM
Reality said...: Ideally, street price would be linear wrt the length of the street while value of properties would be concave wrt the length of the street. This would incorporate the value of a monopoly (ownership of all property along a long street) without leading to the exponential income growth that will soon make this game less fun for many.; September 20, 2009 9:05 AM
tina catz said...: i have a few suggestions
well i think that you guys should have like a watch a street thing because i wanted to buy a street from i think it was Montana then i went to my streets which is in a different state then i tried to find it again to buy it but i didn't know where it was.
can you give out more of a chance to get chance cards though because i barely get any; September 20, 2009 9:10 AM
HW Builder said...: Re exponential rents

Here is the paste of my main street.

Value M 32,430,000
RESIDENTIAL 189
BONUS 5
HAZARD 0
RENT VALUE: M 249,276,000

The cost of the street was $19m and for those of you follwing the posts I have sold a spare street to the bank to build more and have lost a bonus building already! lol; September 20, 2009 9:10 AM
Mike said...: Can you also send mail to this address to report suspected cheaters?

I'm getting repeatedly attacked by new accounts "from New Zealand" but it's obviously a multi of one of the people in my local leaderboard (in the UK). All they do is make an account, buy a street, buy/sell green houses, attack me with chance cards, sell the street, and then repeat with a new account.

I guess at best I could do would be to report these account names and hope the admins can trace IP to ban all accounts involved including the original?; September 20, 2009 9:15 AM
AQF said...: If the problem is one of multi-account "inhouse" trading, perhaps another addition is in order.

Like the adding of the tax structure, all "trades" could be required to go through a brokerage to insure full disclosure and proper accounting, collection, and filing. The "brokerage" (an added game engine module) could run the transaction through a series of "fairness" checks, then add on a fee for the service. (Like real life....) This would still allow the strategy, but inhibit the cheating.

A 24 hr Escrow period would help tame the situation also, while still allowing for long term
development strategies. (they'd have to wait until the next "payday" to get the funds)

If the players with multiple personality disorders want to present themselves as "one player" to the rest of the "world", make them jump through the equivalent hoops that they would encounter in real life... hehehe; September 20, 2009 9:23 AM
Reality said...: @HW Builder

Thanks for the illustration. This must be why we havent heard how they are going to deal with cheaters. They dont know! They needed someone who actually understood finance or economics working on this project in the beginning. If they had that person they would not have used such a silly and simplistic rent algorithm.; September 20, 2009 9:24 AM
tema said...: Русский форум игры:
Monopoly-Streets.ru; September 20, 2009 9:27 AM
Reality said...: Now that I think of it, the guy that heads Tribal DBB has a picture of himself with a picture of Che Guevara on the Tribal homepage... I guess we shouldnt have expected someone like that to know anything about economics!!!; September 20, 2009 9:28 AM
HW Builder said...: @AQF

I like the idea of the 24hr Escrow wait, it would be good. The only exception should be when selling back to the bank which is covered by a 50% fee.; September 20, 2009 9:28 AM
Reality said...: @AQF

Ditto!; September 20, 2009 9:29 AM
adhome said...: @My-Memories: You send a mail to gmail?
Perhaps you can find it again here ^^
I found my too...

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/7783/screenshot010.jpg; September 20, 2009 9:46 AM
Dakky [gg] said...: Definite strategy against cheating - both seller and buyer must be Rank 5 to trade streets. That would discourage most of the cheaters :); September 20, 2009 9:57 AM
Prior_Analytics said...: @HW Builder, @HW Reality

I ran the math on the first day, and posted in the other thread. People should be able to get to Trillion in the first week. The exponential rates make it pretty easy if you find the right streets even without chance cards.

This is why the limited the cap to so few streets, and why they put the huge tax in. The problem does seem that they didn't do the math. I'm not sure what happens when we get to numbers that don't fit on the screen any more.; September 20, 2009 9:57 AM
Donovan said...: Discuss your strategies at: Monopo.ly; September 20, 2009 10:01 AM
google.20.katzkit said...: > The problem does seem that they didn't do the math. I'm not sure what happens when we get to numbers that don't fit on the screen any more.

That will be fun. The best streets I've seen so far have a value of some 14M. A single monopoly tower roughly has a rent of ~70M and the street is loooooong.; September 20, 2009 10:03 AM
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Wir freuen uns auf Euch!!!; September 20, 2009 10:06 AM
HW Builder said...: @ The Policeman

I will let you know !! lol; September 20, 2009 10:23 AM
Wally said...: @HW lol... I'll race you to the roll over :)

The thing about the cheaters is, all they've really done is given themselves a couple of days head start. Sure, you could buy and sell properties to yourself for 150% each time and make $50million quickly, but you can do it legitimately in very little time.

And once you are at $50million, you will be at $500million then billions in no time, so I just don't see the point in going to all the trouble of multi accounts and flipping properties to yourself! The way the game is set up, that's a lot of wasted effort for no real gain, imho.; September 20, 2009 10:33 AM
HW Builder said...: @Wally

Your on! :)

will post here this time tomorrow with update !; September 20, 2009 10:37 AM
Alberto said...: Positive Points:
- The idea of trying to dump the Monopoly in this way.
- Map the world.
- The quality of the maps.

Negative points:
- That demand for registered mails. Allows multiple accounts with just having a generator of IP's.
- The sums are astronomical rents in the long avenues or highways. It is extremely ridiculous. And to top it off, is not explained in any side that mistake.
- The inability to communicate with other players.
- The shortage of options and resources to build buildings that give more than just money. Bone, by relying excclusivamente of a single resource, will eventually tire that game soon.

Conclusion:
- Players entering honest fun, they will soon by the number of multiple accounts. Larguenlo reset the game or to another server but the mail asking for the registration and reducing the rental value of buildings on the avenues longer.

Alberto L.

PD: With a generator of IP's I opened the 3rd day more than 20 accounts. It's ridiculous that this can be done.; September 20, 2009 10:39 AM
google.20.katzkit said...: > so I just don't see the point in going to all the trouble of multi accounts and flipping properties to yourself!

Being a bit ahead can mean you are the first to buy one of the rare (?) 30M+ roads.; September 20, 2009 10:40 AM
HW Builder said...: @google.20.katzkit

Done the $19m road will now be looking for the $250m street. If you have seen any then please let me know. :) lol; September 20, 2009 10:47 AM
paolino said...: @ Wally
TO STOP CHEATING (buy and sell from yourself):

If UserA want to trade with UserB, he can do it *ONLY IF BOTH USERS are ONLINE*.
If UserB isn't online at that moment, UserA could send him a message (but now it is impossible) and arrange an appointment with him.
If UserB don't respond in 7 days, negotations are deemed not accepted.
UserA and UserB can never be online simultaneaously!!!

Simple and effective, didn't it? :-)
In this manner NOBODY can trade with yourself (multiple accounts).; September 20, 2009 10:50 AM
paolino said...: Sorry, I'm mistake :-)

I mean: "UserA and UserB must be online simultaneaously!!!"; September 20, 2009 10:52 AM
HW Builder said...: @ paolino

We have 4 computers in my household of which 2 are laptops, so I could have 3 seperate accounts open with 3 dif IP addresses at the same time without having to even move chairs. If I then traded between these computers it would be fine ?; September 20, 2009 10:55 AM
JJ said...: You know what's really frustrating?

You keep telling us you're doing something against cheating and you did not do anything so far!

FAIL!; September 20, 2009 10:55 AM
Wally said...: I agree (once again) with HW builder. I have a desktop and a laptop in my house. My laptop can not only have a different IP address, it can have a different country ip address thanks to some software I have on it for an entirely unrelated reason.

Long story short, I just don't see an advantage to cheating, other than possibly having been able to shave a day or two off what is going to be a silly multiplying of my rent.

As for the scarcity of $30-$40 million streets, they aren't that scarce lol. And if they are by the time you want one, buy a couple of $20million streets instead. Though granted their multiplier is only stupidly high, not insanely high :); September 20, 2009 11:02 AM
Dakky [gg] said...: Don't even bother - they're NOT reading this comment!; September 20, 2009 11:03 AM
HW Builder said...: @ Wally

Just bow !!! :) lol

and if you see any $250m streets then please let me know. :); September 20, 2009 11:15 AM
Íñigo said...: Cheaters are getting a real problem... today one player called "Pasta4" has bulldozed one of my parks and a few minutes after that, other player called "Pasta" has built a hazards building on the same street... and one hour later, other player called "Pasta8" has built other hazards building on other of my streets...
Other problem is i think some streets are too expensive... for example, one player has a 16.555.000$ street and is giving him 66.374.000$ per day, and i think that is excessive.; September 20, 2009 11:17 AM
paolino said...: @ HW Builder
If you share your boradband internet connection between your computers, you can not have different IP.
I mean: the IP that assign you your Internet Provider is only one. I don't speak the IP assign you to your S.O.
Unless you have two different ADSL lines (ie, you pay two contracts with your provider).; September 20, 2009 11:19 AM
HW Builder said...: @Inigo

Please read other posts before writing.

Here is 1 i posted earlier:

Here is the paste of my main street.

Value M 32,430,000
RESIDENTIAL 189
BONUS 5
HAZARD 0
RENT VALUE: M 249,276,000

All got with 1 account. If you want to know how then pls read ALL POSTS; September 20, 2009 11:23 AM
clement said...: hoi; September 20, 2009 11:26 AM
HW Builder said...: @ paolino

Both laptops have full roaming gprs connections as well as wifi, so I can have 3 dif ip adresses if I wanted to connect that way. lol; September 20, 2009 11:27 AM
Prior_Analytics said...: Basic Starting Stratagy
(or how to make your first billion)

---------------------

Street multiplier is based on street value
So, if you buy a 1.8M street, its multiplier is 1.8x
And, if you buy a 10M street, its multiplier is 10x

---------------------

Day 1
start with 3M
Buy a street for 60%, or 1.8M
Use remaining cash to buy 16 Cottages
Rent value: (1.8M*10%) + (16*75k*1.8) = 2.34M

Day 2
Get rent: 2.34M
Buy 31 more Cottages
Rent value: (1.8M*10%)+(47*75k*1.8) = 6.345M

Day 3
Get rent: 6.345M
Sell 47 cottages: 1.76M
Sell street: .9M
Total Cash: 9M

Buy street for 50%, or 4.5M
Use remaining cash to buy 60 cottages
Rent value: (4.5M*10%) + (60*75k*4.5) = 20.7M

Day 4
Get rent: 20.7M
Sell 60 cottages: 2.25M
Sell street: 2.25M
Total Cash: 25.2M

Buy street for 50%, or 12.6M
Use remaining cash to buy cottages (or whatever fits)
Rent value: (12.6M*10%) + (12.6*12.6M) = 140-160M ish (depending on street/buildings used)

Day 5
Get rent: 140M
Sell buildings: 6.3M
Sell street: 6.3M
Total Cash: 150M+

Buy street for 50%, or 75M (or highest you can find)
Use remaining cash to buy cottages (or whatever fits)
Rent value: (75M*10%) + (75*75M) = approx 2-5 Billion (depending on street and buildings used)

Day 6 plus Stratagy
Find most expensive street you can find
Buy it, max it out with buildings (I need to work out math here for which buildings)
Anytime you need cash, sell street with lowest multipler
Should be able to get a pretty good score in a week or so.

And, on the 7th day, you rest :-); September 20, 2009 11:35 AM
paolino said...: @HW Builder

Lol, your situation can not considered the "normality".

The vast majority of world users connected to the Internet using a single connection.

I didn't say that my idea will eliminate 100% cheating, but would reduce the phenonmenon a lot!; September 20, 2009 11:37 AM
J. said...: This post has been removed by the author.; September 20, 2009 11:41 AM
Wally said...: @hw builder- no sign of a $250million road yet, though I have stumbled across a couple of $50million's

The search continues:); September 20, 2009 11:46 AM
HW Builder said...: @ Prior_Analytics

you are ignoring chance cards. The best i have had is +$500k many times. The worst was a fine of $10,606,000. (dont you just love them :))
At the end of day 3 I am looking at getting £250,000,00 in rent with 1 account.

Your excample fall dome because if you buy a street for 2m and build 1m of green houses you get a rent of 3.2m at the end of day 1 with a value of 6.2m without any offers because your street wanted by others. If it s then you can increase your value to 7.7m (3m x 1.5 +rent)
Then buy street for 6m, build 1.7m of houses then day 2 rent = 10.2m +1m logon etc.....; September 20, 2009 11:50 AM
HW Builder said...: @ paolino

Thats true and i agree.

The thing is we have 5 in the house, 2 adults and three teenagers (oh the cost !).
All want to play and would be barred under 1 IP rule of any type. What if my daughter wants to help her mother because her nasty brother has built a hazard on her street?; September 20, 2009 11:57 AM
mark said...: Check out the monopoly city streets forum for the latest gaming info! Down with cheaters!; September 20, 2009 12:01 PM
Prior_Analytics said...: @HW Builder

Yep, it doesn't take into account, trades, or cards.

That said, after you get to 10M+ in value, your best option is to sell everything, spend pretty close to 50% on a single street, 50% on housing.

If you can trade for more money, yes, always take it. Also, if you get bonus cards while building, buy more houses, and then sell them the next day, and go back to the 50/50 strategy. And, yes, if you get a penalty card, it may screw that day up, but the next day, the strategy is basically the same 50/50.

As far as 2 days vs 3 days for your first street, it really depends on how close to 1.8M you found, and how close to 4.5M you can find on day 3.

But, by Day 4 you are well over the 10M mark, and should be going 50/50.; September 20, 2009 12:03 PM
i am a sheep said...: I received 1.4 million rent today. Purchased four green houses before receiving a fine card for 200,000. Bought 2 more houses before receiving another fine card for 200,000. Purchased another two green houses and then ANOTHER fine card, again for 200,000!

This is so unfair and totally ruined the plans I had today, which was to build many green houses and sell the street. Why so many fines all at once?! Pathetic.; September 20, 2009 12:04 PM
John Doe said...: *****

Please update the blog and tell us WHEN exactly you are going to delete all the cheaters accounts.

Its hard to be enthusiastic about the game when you seem to do NOTHING about the problem.

*****; September 20, 2009 12:11 PM
david said...: blocking IP addresses wont work. you can clone whatever you want.

email verification wont work. I got my own mail server and can setup like a ton of mail accounts if i want.

best Idea I heard so far is needing both account to be active online for a trade and then making sure they dont have the same IP.; September 20, 2009 12:12 PM
HW Builder said...: @Prior_Analytics

you have 10m and buy 5m street and build 5m houses you get 25m rent for houses and 0.5m for street and 1m logon = Total 26.5m
if you buy a 7m street ad build only 3m houses you get 21m rent for houses and 3.5m for street and 1m logon = Total 26.5m the difference is have you tried building 100 green houses! I have and dont bother! Buy the most expensive street you can with a spare m or 2. look at my earlier posts for details. lol; September 20, 2009 12:13 PM
Alpha said...: I see they're still at it. The leaderboard says there's a guy with $15 trillion dollars, yet when you go his profile, it says his score is only $288,000; September 20, 2009 12:17 PM
Prior_Analytics said...: @HW Builder

"if you buy a 7m street ad build only 3m houses you get 21m rent for houses and 3.5m for street and 1m logon = Total 26.5m the difference is have you tried building 100 green houses!"

you'd only get .7M for the street rent, not 3.5M. Street rent is always 10% of street value.

so the 50/50 strategy on a 5M street will give you 26.5M vs the 23.8M you'd get with a 7M street. its over 10% more.

And, yes, as for the time it takes, its very long, which is why I don't ever see having the time for more than a dozen streets or so. And, certainly no time for additional accounts.; September 20, 2009 12:39 PM
HW Builder said...: @Prior_Analytics
Yep, sorry you are right but the time spent building the extra 70 odd buildings will still make me buy a street for 7m

lol; September 20, 2009 12:45 PM
K said...: This is unrelated, but would placing 2 bonus buildings on a street completely protect the street from bulldozers? I don't know if bonus buildings protect other bonus buildings or not.; September 20, 2009 1:01 PM
HW Builder said...: N
@ K

No

Why do you thibk I have put 6 on mine but that is now down to 5; September 20, 2009 1:04 PM
Jim said...: What time has rent been paid to you guys? It's meant to be 00:00 GMT but this morning 2am and still nothing...; September 20, 2009 1:34 PM
HW Builder said...: @jim
I live in London and at this moment it is 21:38 so either you have a time machine or you dont know what GMT means; September 20, 2009 1:38 PM
Jim said...: @ HW Builder... I meant earlier this morning ie 2am GMT 20 Sep.; September 20, 2009 1:56 PM
HW Builder said...: @ Jim
Dont know as at 02:00 I was asleep. Logged on at 06:51 and all ok.; September 20, 2009 2:02 PM
Wally said...: @Jim- got mine at 00:00:01; September 20, 2009 2:06 PM
marzio said...: I had received the chanche card only the first day, after days i had received nothing else.
And you???

Sorry for my English; September 20, 2009 2:19 PM
HW Builder said...: @marzio
I built 180 houses today and got 23 chance cards. You only get them for building and buying. Dont get gready though as my worst card was a fine of $10,600,000.
yes $10.6m.
The best was for $500,000 :)
Got to love them!!!!!!; September 20, 2009 2:44 PM
marzio said...: Thanks HW; September 20, 2009 2:47 PM
HW Builder said...: ps. 16 of the chance card were Hazards or Demo cards, I discarded all of them.

Why make enemies ?; September 20, 2009 2:56 PM
Íñigo said...: Hello, you must do something with cheaters because this is getting nearly imposible to play with them... today in 5 hours I have been bulldozed by "Pasta4" and "Pasta14", hazarced by "Pasta" and "Pasta8", and by the nick (Pasta is cash in spanish) is obvious is the same player who has lots of acounts to make free money.
But also I have been hazarced 5 times today by the player "ROCKYCANGAS", so it will be important to put some max number of times you can attack the same player in one day. So, are "Pasta" ilegal counts of the player "ROCKYCANGAS"? I really think so.; September 20, 2009 2:57 PM
i am a sheep said...: Same thing has been happening to me. One of my buildings was demolished by DONTMESSWITHME (really inventive name!), then I had several hazards placed down on my street from DONTMESSWITHME1, DONTMESSWITHME2, DONTMESSWITHME3, DONTMESSWITHME4 etc. You can obviously tell it's the same person using numerous accounts. When I look at their profiles, they ALL have streets filled with nothing but green houses and all in random locations.

I find it impossible to play when this continues to occur every day. How am I supposed to accumulate rent when my streets are constantly plagued with hazards and my buildings demolished as soon as they're built? Even if I sell the streets and buy new ones in someplace elsewhere, they can find them by looking at my profile.

Please, do something about this. Anything.; September 20, 2009 3:12 PM
Stuart said...: @ sheep: I hate to blame the victim, but did you do something to encourage this kind of destruction? Like attack someone with a hazard card for no reason or demolish something just because you got a demolish card? I find it hard to believe that someone would arbitrarily seek to destroy you, for no reason.

If you did, lesson learned, hopefully. Start a new ID and start a new game. They won't find you if you don't attack them from the new account.

If you didn't, same advice.; September 20, 2009 3:28 PM
DeuxHirondelles said...: Well, I was late off the mark, 'cause I was out of internet reach, but I still managed to get several streets in my neighbourhood.

Available street listings are coming up almost immediately, the building option happens quick, seems like a LOT of the bugs have been worked out. Good on you, Mr. Monopoly. Loads of fun!; September 20, 2009 3:38 PM
i am a sheep said...: Nope, never used a hazard/demolish card on anyone else as I really don't want to make enemies out of anyone. I've had quite a lot of these cards but always discarded them.

I have a feeling it could be someone who seems to have purchased my entire town and has been making offers on my streets (which are the only streets in the entire town that he doesn't own) so many times the past few days. I have declined them all because he was offering garbage amounts and because I am happy with the ones I have. He could have gotten annoyed with me and decided to ruin my experience by harassing me with these accounts.

Either way, there is no need to play dirty like this. It's Monopoly, goddamnit! Almost every game has opponents for you to compete with. This game is the same. If you can't play the game properly, and instead choose to play dirty like this, then you don't belong in the game at all. Ban them. All of them, including the original account. This behavior is in-excusable. I like the idea that someone above made - to have a maximum amount of hazards that you can place on streets and a maximum amount of times you can demolish buildings in a day.; September 20, 2009 3:39 PM
Tim Ruddell said...: This post has been removed by the author.; September 20, 2009 3:54 PM
Jim said...: Anyone been paid yet?; September 20, 2009 4:18 PM
Book, Bookie said...: You have taken the Monopoly out of this game by the taxes. Stick to the real game. Tax by chance cards. How can someone have a monopoly over a town or city if you impose such strict taxes. It is not worth playing now. All you can do is buy a few streets and keep upgrading the buildings for more rent, but keep the street number low or you will be taxed to death. That is not a monopoly. Get real guys the cheaters are your problem. I am not cheating, but just want to have a monopoly on my town that has more than the number of streets that causes 100% tax on rent.; September 20, 2009 4:30 PM
Aliana said...: I want to change my starting location and set up my locals to another place. Is there any way I can do this? Please fix this...; September 20, 2009 4:41 PM
Stuart said...: @jim- it's still not midnight gmt. 13 more minutes; September 20, 2009 4:47 PM
Stuart said...: @ Aliana unfortunately not. It's set based on the first property you bought. Kind of a pain in the ass, isn't it. Starting somewhere you may have no interest in any more, and having to navigate away.

I feel your pain, same boat here.; September 20, 2009 4:49 PM
B said...: No server issues, eh? Odd because for the last 20 minutes all I have had on my screen is a spinning hour glass . . . can't build on my property, search for news streets, etc. You don't have server issues between 0100 GMT and 2359 GMT, but the hour after rent is dispersed is horrible.; September 20, 2009 5:20 PM
Stuart said...: Anyone else having a problem with the Buy Streets functionality? Doesn't seem to be working for me at the moment, hangs at the 'having a look for streets in this area"; September 20, 2009 5:20 PM
Stuart said...: lol.. jinx B. Same problem here.; September 20, 2009 5:21 PM
i am a sheep said...: I've been hit by the same goddamn bug I had before the reset! I bought a street for 600k, but nothing happened. The hour glass just kept spinning so I refreshed the page. The money is gone from my account but I don't own the street!

I swear, this annoys me so much.; September 20, 2009 5:24 PM
Bill said...: Site is reallyyyyy slowwwwwww ..... so much for server fixes; September 20, 2009 5:26 PM
i am a sheep said...: Nah, a lot of speed problems right now. Buying/selling stuff takes forever. So much for new hardware.; September 20, 2009 5:26 PM
i am a sheep said...: I agree about the 'build multiple buildings' feature. It takes forever to build a few green houses as you have to click loads of different things just to get there. We should have an option to set the amount of buildings to build and that's it - no excess clicking.; September 20, 2009 5:34 PM
Greg said...: For those crying about cheaters, not everyone is one, if you haven't noticed, the longer the street is, the more the different buildings produce. For example, on a street I own, it produces $999,999 but for another guy that I saw, for him it produces $7,000,000+ (the street is really long)...finding the long streets is the key.; September 20, 2009 5:34 PM
Stuart said...: @policeman then you'd miss out on all those chances to get Chance cards; September 20, 2009 5:35 PM
i am a sheep said...: Jesus, I've spent the past 10 minutes just placing five green houses down. What is with the sudden drop in speed? It was fine earlier; September 20, 2009 5:43 PM
Bill said...: Slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww; September 20, 2009 5:47 PM
Steve Lockhart said...: For cryin' out loud people! Stop trying to build right after pay hour. You're going to break the internet.; September 20, 2009 5:51 PM
Andrej said...: It seems that our worldly problems are copying themselves unto this game. As soon as you get a lot of money all other players start building hazard buildings on your land, even if they are not even from the same district.
Jealousy, I guess.
And for all of you who think that all of us big shots (almost a billion by now) are cheating, guess again. It`s called trading and making a good profit, that`s what Monopoly is all about.
I get pissed when I see those losers with no rent streets and no money and they still don`t want to sell the street for good money. At least sell it to the bank and move on if you can`t afford it, don`t just stick to it like some god damn leech.; September 20, 2009 5:54 PM
Steve Lockhart said...: When you are spamming Green Houses (or anything else for that matter) you do not have to click on the cone and then move your mouse to click "ok". Just double click on the cone and it it will confirm. It's gotta be a fast double click though.

Your welcome.; September 20, 2009 5:56 PM
Stuart said...: Lol @ Steve. No need to thank you for something anyone with more than a few seconds experience already knows; September 20, 2009 6:01 PM
celtiberian said...: The game is buggy, slow and the rules aren't good enought (multi-account is allowed).

I guess we'll see another restart soon. And then I'm out of this thing.; September 20, 2009 6:05 PM
George said...: VERY VERY SLOW!!!!; September 20, 2009 6:07 PM
Steve Lockhart said...: Quite a few people obviously don't know because there are people talking about how many button presses it takes to build a house. No need to be a jerk. Ah forget it Stuart let's not argue. Gimme your user name and I'll add it to my list of friends.; September 20, 2009 6:07 PM
Stuart said...: Thanks for the offer Steve, but I'll pass. I've got all the friends I need.

And it still takes 4 clicks to buy a hose. One on the build button, one on the building type and a double tap on the cone.

And if you are building them on a long road and it keeps moving you back to the center or anchor point every time you get a chance card, it's a big pain in the ass and a waste of time.; September 20, 2009 6:19 PM
Stuart said...: hose = house lol; September 20, 2009 6:19 PM
Saman Skjellerup said...: @Policeman
In case you haven't noticed, one of the biggest differences I can see between Cities XL and Monopoly City Streets, is that MCS is played in any Flash-capable browser, whereas CXL needs to be installed onto your computer (Windows-only)

Then there's the price: MCS is free, CXL is 40$

The two games are about as comparable as Monopoly and Ludo.

And Hasbro isn't pushing this game to get an edge against CXL. MSC is an advertisement for Hasbro's board game Monopoly City.

You might as well be claiming that Ford is pushing their new Ford Focus to get an edge on a new kind of yacht.; September 20, 2009 6:19 PM
Raymond Chan said...: I think there is a very easy way to find out cheaters.
That is:

Any account buying the first street that costs over 3 million dollars(without any properties on the street).; September 20, 2009 6:21 PM
scratchin said...: Its going really bloody slow.; September 20, 2009 6:23 PM
Stuart said...: They seem to be taking some action on the leader board.; September 20, 2009 6:41 PM
bonjour said...: what's my conclusion:
whitout hazard and transaction, here is what money you can get in the first days
(supposing you can build the little house infinitly on the street)
-if you buy a 1 million street:
1st day: 1m by day + rent 0.1
+ 2m*1 for building = 3.1m the next day
(*1 cause 1m street rent is 50k for 50k hous)
2nd day: 3.1m as the first day
+ 3.1m*1 for building = 6.2m next day
3rd day: 6.2 + 6.2*1 = 12.4m next
4th day: 12.4 + 12.4*1 = 24.8m...
-if you buy a 2 million street:
1st day: 1m by day + rent 0.2
+ 1m*2 for building = 3.2m the next day
2nd day: 3.2m as the first day
+ 3.2m*2 for building = 9.6m next day
3rd day: 9.6 + 9.6*2 = 9.6*3 = 28.8m
4th day: 28.8*3 = 86.4m...
-if you build a 2.5 million street:
1st day: 1m by day + rent 0.25
+ 0.5m*2.5 building = 2.5m the next day
2nd day: 2.5*3.5 = 8.75m
3rd day: 8.75*3.5 = 30.625m
4th day: 30.625*3.5 = 107.2m
5th day: 107.2*3.5 = 375m...
-if you build a 2.9 million street:
1st day: 1m by day + rent 0.29
+ 0.1m*2.9 building = 1.58m the next day
2nd day: 1.58*3.9 = 6.162m
3rd day: 6.162*3.9 = 24.031m
4th day: 24*3.9 = 93m
5th day: 93*3.9 = 365m...

So, next tonight, someone with more than 150m is, or very lucky (good cards, nice exchange), or very good with computers ;)))

Of course, the best way is to start with a 2m street, and asap buy a 5 or 6m street the 3rd day, and so on...
But you'll have to wait 10/15 days before to be in the charts...; September 20, 2009 6:43 PM
Tiberious Neruda said...: You know what I find funny? 7 of the 10 Global leader spots are taken by folks from Pocahontas, Iowa with names like

CHEATER NO 3
CHEATER NO 8
CHEATER NO 10
BEST CHEATER

all with over $500Billion, and making an absolute mockery of the supposed anti-cheating measures put in place.

Way to go. You've proven that not only are you powerless to stop shady dealings, you're getting it thrown into your faces that any claims that you'd crack down are nothing more than words with as much force behind them as a fly.

The complacency sends a very clear message. Cheat to win. May the best take it all.; September 20, 2009 6:46 PM
Stuart said...: bonjour- read some of the earlier posts today. In your example, if I have 107 million after day 4, I don't have 375 million after day 5.

I take my 107 million, buy a 50 million street and use the other 50 million to buy buildings. On a 50 million street a $600k building pays $28 million in rent, so my $107 million turns in to a $50million street plus 95 $600k buildings, and those buildings will then pay me 95*28 million, = $2.6 billion in one night.

Doesn't take any computer skills at all.; September 20, 2009 6:48 PM
Stuart said...: @ bonjour again- the funny thing is, a $15,000,000 Brouette Tower only pays $142,000,000 overnight on the same street. So if I take my $107 million, buy a $50,000,000 street and spend $57 million on those, I only can buy 3 and only earn $426 million.

So the moral is, buy looooong streets and spend the time to put up a lot of the cheaper buildings, and this game multiplies your money completely idiotically.

But still, no cheating and no trading needed to become a multi billionaire in next to no time, just a good strategy and starting with a $2million + street and as many green houses as you can afford.; September 20, 2009 7:00 PM
scratchin said...: Really really really bloody slow, and it's nothing to do with my internet connection.; September 20, 2009 7:03 PM
Stephan said...: Too many cheating going on and the multipliers are indeed pretty sick. That doesn't make the game more fun..

Off topic, for info on the environment, have a look at this Green News.; September 20, 2009 7:06 PM
cruisermeister said...: http://i36.tinypic.com/w89vts.jpg

http://i38.tinypic.com/ao0w1z.jpg

lol; September 20, 2009 7:18 PM
Super Rei said...: Wow! Take a look at the global leaderboard today. Isn't it a taunt?

Game master, are you really doing something about it? They are starting to damage your credibility.; September 20, 2009 7:21 PM
B said...: Make that 2 hours and 20 minutes . . . I think you have server problems. I don't think this is a one time thing, probably going to happen every night (minus Friday and Saturday when people are out on the town). Love the game though.

On another note, the Leader board is great Cheater (#1-10) is in the lead! I;m not sure if that is sarcasm (in which case that is hilarious) or boasting (in which case booooooo!).; September 20, 2009 7:25 PM
Joselito al kien le chupas el pito said...: ypu r liers...you only must look 4 RETURN...; September 20, 2009 7:31 PM
Joselito al kien le chupas el pito said...: el obejtivo es RENTABILIDAD "return" el resto es manejo "management"; September 20, 2009 7:32 PM
Elder of Ziyon said...: Why are there no streets in Israel?; September 20, 2009 7:47 PM
Greg said...: For those crying about cheaters, not everyone is one, if you haven't noticed, the longer the street is, the more the different buildings produce when it comes to $$$. For example, on a street I own, the building produces $999,999 but for another guy that I saw, for him it produces $7,000,000+ (the street is really long)...finding the long streets is the key

Also, the cheaters don't seem to be too hard to spot now since you have Cheater 1 - 10 and BEST CHEATER on the leaderboards, lololol!; September 20, 2009 7:50 PM
Joshua said...: This game needs a rest again, the cheaters are out of control. People are actually naming their accounts "cheater NO 1-10" hello, if that isn't enough then I don't know what is. There should really be an email verification or something, this is out of hand, it's not even fun anymore for the people that want to play without cheating. Please seriously look into fixing this problem, and perferably soon than later. Please, all us honest people are begging you to do something; September 20, 2009 7:52 PM
Enigma said...: OK, it's official, this game can't go to hell, because it's already there. Oh well, it was a fun couple of days while the facade lasted. Bye bye.; September 20, 2009 7:53 PM
Max Power said...: Forget the 'cheaters,' because with the new rules there are many, but not all are cheating. I am legitimately on my local leaderboard.

However, the performance is really off tonight. Seems there is going to be a surge between midnight and 5-6am GMT every day?; September 20, 2009 7:56 PM
throke said...: Ohhhh WOW, A 10% off at the Hasbro online store chance card.......that blows.; September 20, 2009 8:04 PM
Reality said...: I'm legitimately at the top of my local leaderboard too... in a city of 1 million... but it's not fun. So I get 100 million tomorrow. Too easy.. .not fun. This is what happens when a marketing firm runs things. The people working for these firms are idiots. I was a TA for a marketing class at a top five MBA school and the students were idiots. Tribal DDB confirms my biases about the profession. Anyway, I've sold off all of my properties. Maybe someone else can enjoy this, but not me.

Good luck to the rest of you. Most of you will be over a trillion in the next week... then what?

Doesnt make me want to buy the new monopoly game.

Bye.; September 20, 2009 8:06 PM
throke said...: @Elder of Ziyon
The Palestinians blew them all up?; September 20, 2009 8:06 PM
CodyOdiOdi said...: You need to make it so when we get a hazard on us we can actually get a bulldozer. I have 3 hazards on me I have yet to see any bulldozer in the last day... It's incredibly annoying and you NEED to address this.; September 20, 2009 8:14 PM
mikenondoom said...: The game is still way too slow. It takes minutes to do ANYTHING. I won't be playing.; September 20, 2009 8:22 PM
Richard said...: You just need to buy longer streets to become rich. Then you are harassed by neighbours and people from nowhere. That's all about this game. Oh, another thing you can enjoy is building hundrads of houses one by one. It's a good thing to kill the time.; September 20, 2009 8:36 PM
Super Rei said...: Why don't they change the name of leaderboard to "Cheaterboard"?? Make prefect sense.; September 20, 2009 8:46 PM
monopolystreets said...: You can found List of the Longest Monopoly City Streets
is here
http://aroundus.info/monopolycitystreets.php; September 20, 2009 8:49 PM
uccoffee said...: the server is extremely slow today....
and the global top 8 are with name with CHEATER :D
interesting

also, i just wonder HOW can a level 1 account " MR MONOPOLY" own 191 streets? I just really want to know how.... Cos I really want to get a 1 billion street ... I can only found 66 million which is still available.; September 20, 2009 9:25 PM
2screwed said...: @ the policeman
Don't hold back, tell them what you really think. lol; September 20, 2009 9:39 PM
robert said...: On you Monopoly city Streets--Israel does not exist--it's just blank. What's going on?; September 20, 2009 9:41 PM
2screwed said...: @ robert
Its my understanding that for security reasons Israel doesn't want their streets shown.; September 20, 2009 9:53 PM

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