Monopoly City Streets
 

I've been meaning to mention this game on the radio show for the past several weeks, but since it just got reopened yesterday, now is the perfect time to give it a shot. Monopoly City Streets is sort of like the original game, but played with Google Maps around the world. You can't play in teams, but there are friend leaderboards, so it could be fun if a bunch of GFF folks signed up.

Website

How it works:
-Each player starts with $3 million. When you first visit the site, you'll be asked to pick a street. Pick carefully, because the first street you pick is considered your home base. Once you pick a street, you'll be able to register an account.
-You can use your money to purchase additional streets, or build monuments on the streets you own. Occasionally you will receive Chance cards which will let you demolish other people's buildings, place hazards (which prevent rent collection) or build protection on your own streets. You can make offers to other players if they own a street you want.
-Every day you log in, you receive $1 million plus rent for your properties. Rent does not accumulate, you must log in. If you fail to log in for 2 weeks, you forfeit all your property.

The interface is a bit clunky, but it could be fun if we had a group playing. I think Hasbro is still working out the kinks, as the game first launched last week, but they wiped everyone's accounts and started over yesterday because of cheating and glitches.

To add a friend, go into the leaderboards under friends.

Players:
Nutty Turnip (because it thought nuttyturnip was naughty somehow)
Yggdrasilly (Sousuke)
Dullenplain
MrShinra (Dark Nation)
Lithium O2 (Yeldarb)
The Dopefish
Quasinova (Supernova)
Slash5150 (Slash)
Tritoch
Radez29
Rockgamer

Yggdrasilly over there, too. Haven't really played much yet, but working on it!

I signed in as Dullenplain, gonna see if I can take over my neighborhood.

For some reason I can't quite takeover the exact street I live on, but I'm working the area around it. I'm on there as MrShinra.

I'm on as Lithium O2 because the name box thought I was being too revealing. I will own Morganton even though it's the worst place ever!

I'm trying to figure out how Dark Nation is the only one on my list with less than 3 million points. The score seems to be total money earned (not counting any spent), so I'm not sure why you're 17,000 shy of that.

Keep in mind that if you own any more than 5 streets, the game starts assessing you a progressively larger tax. At a certain point (I think the faq says 38) it's no longer possible to turn a profit.

I'm in as "The Dopefish". Bought the street I lived on in New Hampshire. :D

Just signed up as Quasinova and bought the main street in my town. Fucker was worth 2.1 million though to buy.

I'm down. Slash5150 and in Oregon lol.

I'm signed up as Tritoch.

Apparently I've got other people in my area playing. When I went to buy the second half of the main road around here it was already owned, as well as most of the roads around the university. My favorite one was still free though, and it gave me a bonus park too.

Well I owned exactly 5 streets earlier, and when I logged on right now, I got some income in, making my score a little over 4.4 million now, so I dunno

I signed up as Radez29. Bought my street and the next one over.

I'M COMING FOR YOU TURNIP!!!

Signed up a few days ago as Rockgamer, but forgot to post (well, I tried to, but my internet started to get a little screwy and I forgot to come back and post after it was fixed).

Damn you Radez, building a sewer treatment plant on the block where I live. No wonder my asthma has been acting up. Nothing a wrecking ball won't fix.

Maybe so, but I destroyed your pretty little Nori Building first.

OH HELL NAW! That shit don't fly with me!

--Edit--

Oops, My finger slipped heh

It would seem a certain person wants to sabotage me without posting here.

It's on.

I just had to, you know, I had to put it SOMEWHERE. I thought Shinra Corp would have been the best place to sabotage but the bastard has gone and filled his streets will little cottages.

There's a discard button, you know. I would have retaliated against you, but your pitiful score just made me feel sad for you.

I didn't realize filling up a street with cheap housing would protect against hazards. Sounds like a worthwhile exploit until it gets patched.

Actually I got that chance card 3 days ago and clicked discard every time and it STILL pops back up

Sure, this looks fun. Hawkeye was already taken, so i'm Hawkeye42

EDIT: apparently you can only have 9 friends. oh well. I have a grand total of 0 dollars left anyway.

Stiff competition so far. I have discovered that if you build a bonus building on a street that has a hazard, it cancels out the effect (or at least my rent amount is no longer crossed out). That's helpful considering I got at least 10 Chance cards yesterday, and none of them were for demolishing buildings.

I keep hoping that I'll get a hazard to place, but so far I've only gotten two bonus buildings and a code for 10% off at Hasbro Toys' website. You'll get what's coming to you one of these days, Dullenplain!

Haha, well, you were one of the few people who didn't fill their streets entirely with houses to prevent anything else from being built on it.

Tritoch, chance cards are only given out if you buy/build/sell something. So, crank out those $50,000 houses!