Monopoly City Streets

[Peikko 1,575]

Your 'home town' is where you bought your first street.

Whatever you buy after that doesn't matter from that pont of view. First street is very important

[mawilson 2,133]

If your home region is in ND though, I guess you will have a lot fewer people after you. Do you know if that's determined by where the majority of your streets are or the first place you bought a street?

Your home is the place where you bought your first street.

[Jenn! 918]

Ok. I had thought I bought my first street in Boston, but most of my streets were in Italy and my home was listed as Italy. I must be mistaken about where I bought my first street.

[Peikko 1,575]

Changes...

Since we are restarting MONOPOLY City Streets game play, we have decided to make a few changes to the game at the same time. Why? We want to make it more competitive and fun…and also to prevent any sneaky cheating (which a few of you were up to…you know who you are). A short summary of some key changes:

Streets can only change hands ONCE per day

In other words, no street can be bought or sold more than once per day. So, be wise about your street selection.

Bidding Cap Removed

For level 3 players and above, we have removed the bidding cap of M1.5 million on streets. Have fun.

Addition of "For Sale" signs

Having a hard time finding a street to purchase? Now when viewing the zoomed out map, you will see red “for sale” signs that will indicate where streets are available. Click on the sign to visit the neighborhood and buy, buy, buy.

Tax

There is only one certainty in MONOPOLY City Streets. Tax. Just like in real life, tax now plays an integral part of the game. The first 5 streets that you own are tax-free. The current tax rate is 3% per street. 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%, etc.

Street Protection

Many of you noticed that if there is an offer made on a street, it was protected from hazards and the bulldozer while the street is under negotiation. No longer. Streets will no longer be protected when they are included in negotiations.

Forced Repossession of Streets

It pays to play regularly. If, after 2 weeks, there has not been any activity on your account, the bank will automatically repossess ALL your streets. Ouch. So, keep buying, building and negotiating - you never know what chance has in store for you…

[Peikko 1,575]

The new 'tax' rules seem insane.

[Jenn! 918]

The new 'tax' rules seem insane.

Seriously. Are you going to have to pay more taxes than rent collected if you own more than 38 streets?

[Peikko 1,575]

That's what I thought...that would seriously change things.

[mawilson 2,133]

The new 'tax' rules seem insane.

Ah... now you get to experience Obama's "tax the rich" policy first hand.

Edited September 18, 2009 by mawilson

[Peikko 1,575]

I don't think even Obama is that insane.

[Jenn! 918]

I wonder if Obama will give everyone $3M .

I just know that as soon as I go to bed the game is gonna go up and all my streets will be gone by morning.

[mawilson 2,133]

What happens if you sell the first 5 streets? The next 5 become first 5?

[Jenn! 918]

What happens if you sell the first 5 streets? The next 5 become first 5?

Does it matter? If you own 6 streets, you're going to pay 3% on the total rent collected from all 6 streets, not just the 6th street.

[Amby 490]

OI MARK! You never told me what the winner gets?

[Ban Hammer 13,398]

I wonder if Obama will give everyone $3M .

I just know that as soon as I go to bed the game is gonna go up and all my streets will be gone by morning.

no problem, you can blame obama.

[mawilson 2,133]

What happens if you sell the first 5 streets? The next 5 become first 5?

Does it matter? If you own 6 streets, you're going to pay 3% on the total rent collected from all 6 streets, not just the 6th street.

Ah, I see. I saw "the first 5 streets are tax-free" and assumed the rent collected from the first 5 was tax-free.

The new 'tax' rules seem insane.

Seriously. Are you going to have to pay more taxes than rent collected if you own more than 38 streets?

Well that would be idiotic. What kind of "global real estate domination" are we talking about here if you can't own more than 38 streets?