thread: 2011-09-15 : PAX Dev: You Should Play Bad Games
On 2011-09-19, Marshall Burns wrote:
I like Monopoly because it's all about leveraging what your opponents need against them. It's always a gamble, but if you can get in your opponents' heads well enough, then you can do some serious damage. Some people try to hang on to every piece of property they get; those people are playing it wrong, and I know that because I always beat them. You have to sell things that you don't need now in order to get the things you're going to need soon, and to do that successfully you have to leverage the other players' needs against them. It's all in the bargaining. If you don't bargain well, then you'll never survive the hurricane of random hurt that comprises traveling around the board.
I also like that, if you're broke, you don't want to land on an unowned property, because then you've quite possibly allowed someone else to buy it for hardly anything thanks to the auctions. (I also play with a time limit for deciding whether or not to purchase a property you land on.)
I also like that if you land on an owned property, and the player next in line rolls his dice before the property owner notices and requests his rent, you don't owe any rent. I'm really good at not owing rent.
