Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capitalism (2017)

Re:Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capital... by pessimizer on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:16PM (#22425622)

There's a lot of strategy in Monopoly. People who don't think there's strategy in Monopoly in my experience are people who don't understand the value of trading, and have largely played games of it where little to no trading was done.

If you can't imagine trading with another player in a way that would give that player a Monopoly, you haven't exhausted the strategy space of Monopoly, a seminal game in the history of board games that all 3M/German/Euro-style strategy games of today owe a debt to.

I'm going to stop because I feel like I'm falling into a bizarre habit of only commenting on HN when Monopoly is brought up negatively:)

edit: if there's an obvious, unstoppable winner at any point in any game, you are allowed to stop playing.

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Re:Monopoly was invented to demonstrate the evils of capital... by andrepd on Thursday February 27, 2020 @08:59AM (#22433247)

>If you can't imagine trading with another player in a way that would give that player a Monopoly

No, I wouldn't, except if it gives a (more valuable) monopoly to me.

You talk a lot about strategy, but what strategy is that? Afaict any strategy in Monopoly is "static", i.e. prefer orange properties, then the second set in each street, etc. That is, the boring sort x)

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