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If the players involved don't actively trade, then yes. If the players trade often with a reasonable range of decision-making proficiency, the game is very fun.
by exogeny 7y ago
If the players involved don't actively trade, then yes. If the players trade often with a reasonable range of decision-making proficiency, the game is very fun.
For example, just by dice rolling, you could get a lot of properties in the Red, Yellow, Green, or Dark Blue zones. But those properties are very overrated compared to Light Blue and Orange, which offer much higher revenue/investment and much higher landing frequency due to the adjacency of Jail and GO. A game with active trading where one player knows this and others don't is almost completely unrelated to dice rolling.
This is why playing against 3 AI opponents is often more fun than playing against humans.
- goostavos 7y agoTrading and haggling is exactly what makes the game fun. Too many people think it's a buy and hold game. No, no! If you're not making Cockamamie deals where you're demanding rent immunity from their tiles for 10 turns, you're missing out on the best parts of monopoly imo.
- WalterBright 7y agoThe values of the various properties are well known, hence the optimal strategy. You tend to learn that fairly quickly (even without looking it up), and there's nothing more to do. > A game with active trading where one player knows this and others don't Playing against rubes isn't fun, like being an adult playing soccer to win against kids.