Hi,
I wanted to comment on the game a little and add suggestions, and also ask some questions. (I sent this as an email as well)
1- custom rules.- How does one apply the option to take off auction? If not, this should be implemented, at least in a custom game with friends. Also, how do you take off when a player loses, his properties go to the player who took him out? We play those properties go back up for sale. Also, the option to buy a mortgaged property should be implemented. Makes the game much more competitive and strategic when you can lose properties when mortgaged.
2. On multiple occasions, chance and cc cards duplicate. (Very bad) advance to st. Charles place should not come out 2 out of
3 cards. Kills the game completely. This happens almost every game.
3.losing wifi for a minute. The other day we were playing a game and my friend went offline for a minute. Couldn’t get back on so 2 hours of our lives wasted. He should be able to get back in the game.
I have been playing monopoly competitively for over 25 years. I love the game. It’s hard these days to get my friends all in the same house to play. Your game is a great option but if minor changes were made. If anyone reads this and can look into it, it would be greatly appreciated!
I love playing this game, BUT the AI is so badly designed it’s impossible to enjoy the game. For example; the AI wins the roll to be first 98% of the time. The AI can in 2 trips around the board buy a property on every color at the start of the game, so it is impossible to get 3 of a kind. When the AI is loosing, 80% of the time when landing on chance it gets $100, $200, or $300 in 1 trip around the board. When I land on chance the same % I’m paying. Also, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve landed of both tax spot’s loosing $300. When I have 3 properties with houses on them, the AI will miss them or any other high dollar property I may own over and over, and over. While I will land on its high $ properties every time. The last thing the AI gets is when it get 3 properties, and the AI has no money it will land on chance spots over and over till it gets all hotels. This can happen in as little as 2 to 3 trips around the board. DEVELOPER PLEASE FIX THE CHEATING OF THE AI. IF YOU DO NOT HAVE THE SKILLS OR THE KNOWLEDGE TO PROGRAM THEM SO THE GAME IS FAIR TO PLAY, PLEASE TELL US. IM READY TO START LEGAL ACTION AGAINST YOUR COMPANY FOR MENTAL AGGRAVATION. MAYBE ENOUGH OTHER PEOPLE ARE ANGRY ENOUGH TO MAKE IT A CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT.
I play easy mode against an ai opponent. The game is pre-programmed way too much eliminating any skill involved. They claim they don’t do that, but that is a lie or rather a half truth. They don’t pre-program you land on a specific space, such as Park Place, but they program it so that 8 out of every 10 games you won’t land on all the properties in a set (such all 3 of the blue set). The odds are better for landing in both utilities, but not by much. All of this means you have to purchase your final property to set from the ai at exorbitant rates. One wins by depleting the ai’s resources, while keeping ai from getting a complete set on which housing/hotels can be added to increase rent. If you manage to deplete ai’s resources too early in the game, it is pre-programmed so that your progress will be stifled by rolling lower numbers on the dice and by repeated being sent back to jail, while the ai is programmed to roll high numbered doubles allowing it to repeatedly pass go and collect $200. It makes for a very frustrating game. But, hey if that is your idea of fun, go for it!
Almost every time I play against alleged “real” (not AI) opponents, the game crashes in between turns. We all sit there using the speech bubbles to “Hurry up!” or “Grr” or “Hmmm” each other… you can tell some people try to exit and return, but it just stays in limbo. It’s frustrating bc it always seems to happen once the game is getting good and people actually have color sets, property, etc. it’s very annoying.
Also, the rolling is rigged when you play against AI. I will be way in the lead and then several, and I mean 7+, rounds will happen where NO ONE lands on my properties, they get all of the good Chance cards and, conveniently, I land on Boardwalk or whatever each time. I’m not a sore sport, either. I have a good strategy for game play yet lost the past 7 games in a row to unlucky rolls.
And again… everyone seems to tip toe past my Boardwalk/Mediterranean Ave sets (with houses and hotels), yet I bleed out money to the one AI who owns yellow every round AND I just got hit back to back with the property repair cards. You have to make the rolls and cards more fair.
Everyone knows classic monopoly takes a while to finish. With that being said it would be nice if that was taken into consideration when you’ve been playing a match for an hour then one person leaves and the game is just at a standstill. There should need a time limit for being idle and they should be kicked out of the match and the others should be able to continue. It’s very annoying to build everything and the game just pauses on someone’s turn and you have to leave because they left. I’d even prefer the whole game to end with a ranking or something opposed to that. It’s happened a few times. I would give it a 5 but this is just too annoying.
Update: Came back to lower the rating. It gets worse and worse every time I play. Rigged dice and online multiplayer is 90% bots who of course will have the advantage and win. They can’t even hide it. The bot names are all in the same format. Don’t waste your money.
Overall this is a very well rounded Monopoly App. A couple (quality of life) updates could be implemented in my opinion.
1: Add a reward system for winning online games with random players. (no invited friends so this can’t be abused) this would award in game currency to be able to purchase packs and tokens to reward players for their playtime and dedication.
2: Add a leaderboard for net worth. All of your games negative or positive net worth contribute to your stats. (Invite games do not count negatively or positively towards this leaderboard) this would include all of your game stats viewable under your profile as well as your win/loss amount.
2.5: Add a weekly net worth board that’s global and resets. Top 3 win a random token unlock to be able to use for playing with.
3. Add a team game mode of 2v2. Players would share properties and money, teams start with 3,000 dollars.
Purchased this game around a week ago and have noticed extreme obstacles when it comes to enjoying the game. Playing against AI is simply too easy. Playing online with no timer is extremely frustrating as some players take a whole lot to end their turn and some just stop playing without quitting and then we are stuck in a game. Then there is people who do not respect the game and trade all the assets to someone for $1 or trade a property for a ridiculous amount of money when it makes no sense.
There should be timers for turns at the very least. Rating players or coming up with a way to protect the integrity of the game (preventing people from just trading everything to someone instead of losing) will be great as well but hard to do.
The game itself is wonderful, I even paid for the entire expansion for all of the boards. Love the graphics and the new character choices. That being said, something needs to be done about the upset players that will not end their turn because they aren’t getting their way. I’ve literally waited up to 15min and still nothing happens! It’s not the game messing up, no lag, just butt hurt players throwing tantrums. I feel like their should be a time out on the turn length or a report button or something! I shouldn’t have to repeatedly exit and start up a new game 20 minutes in over someone having a meltdown.
The game is rigged and doesn’t give a fair opportunity to play. I bought the app a few days ago and wish I hadn’t wasted my money. For example in the game I just played the ‘app’ player in the first few rotations rolled 2 doubles twice and happened to land on and bought all the railroads along with other properties. Yesterday when I was playing every time I landed on Chance it was pay this or pay that but every time the app landed on it , it was collect 200 or collect 150 and never to pay anything for the whole game. Etc, etc… It’s so obvious that it’s programmed for app players to be at an advantage.
Ive actually never paid for a game app; but I wanted this one bad enough to pay. I’ve had it for about 36hrs and about 30% of the games I’ve played just freeze. I’ve tried various methods of re-joining. Sometimes it even says re-joining at the start of the next turn. Then I sit there for 20 min and never rejoin. It’s so frustrating, especially when you are in a good position to win.I’ve never had this many issues with any free game apps. Kind of baffled an app I paid $5 for is this glitchy. Sad to say I regret purchasing.