Well here goes another twenty hours wasted. Google introduced their Monopoly Streets game about two weeks ago and it has been a craze on the Internet. Like monopoly, the object of the game is to be richer than the next person. Buy streets, place houses, collect rent - these are still concepts in the game, but the big seller of the game is that these are REAL streets and you're competing with people from the entire globe!
I won't go in depth about how the game works, but the hardest part about the game is finding LONG streets so you can place as many buildings on them as the eyes and see (or the screen can stretch). You make money by collecting rent from the buildings and you can only collect rent once a day, so it's a strategy of how you use your money from day to day. Since the new rule is that every street after your first five, you will get taxed 3% of your net worth, it's advantageous to keep five or less streets. I tend to keep about eight streets, so I'm taxed about 9% every day, but I do like to know I have more streets available if people attack me. Attack, meaning people putting prisons and waste treatment plants on your street, which stops you from collecting rent.
But in any case, I started with my first street: Jackson Street in Oakland, California and started buying streets in Canada, Ohio, and even Chico, Ca. I wanted to buy some streets in Japan, but they were all taken. That's the fun of the game, you can be an absentee land-owner to real streets of the world. I never knew how many little mountain roads there are in California until I started playing the game.
Well with a little bit of math, a little know-how in geography, and a lot of effort in playing competitive games, I am finally in the TOP 10 of my local area, Alameda, California. Of course, I'm #10, but I still am proud. I'm level 5 (or 7), meaning I am worth $1,000,000,000 billion dollars. My goal is to reach level 7, then I'll call it quits. Until then, let the money bags roll in!
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