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Hey, it’s not RMN that drives people away, it is they who drive themselves away…or - I dunno - maybe RMN just smells real bad and we’re just all really bad people with really bad ideas.

Anyways, it’s a shame to see another prominent member just leave like this and take down all of his stuff without saying much of a word, but if history has proven me anything around here is that people can come back over time and bring back all of their stuff with them too. So maybe lonestarluigi will come back after some time has passed...or maybe he finally just got sick of game making and this place altogether and is going to do something else now with his free time - who knows? But I wish him the best of luck whatever he decides to do in the future and he will certainly be missed.

I think that the basic idea that these guys are trying to go for does sound like it has some promise and certain intrigue to it, but until I see the game in action and see how it works and fully functions, the way that they’re portraying it here just sounds like a bit of an overwhelming mess and it seriously breaks the board game’s classic traditions on a grand scale just for the sake of trying to capture a more younger audience that may or may not care about such things in the first place.

The whole appeal of playing Monopoly with your friends is to become the richest son-of-a-bitch in town by scooping up all the properties, building houses and hotels, and crushing your friends with your high priced rents. It’s the ultimate dream of being a big shot and maybe striking it rich someday. By taking away most of the game’s familiar, but core concepts that have been in there for the last eighty or something years and focusing on a more different approach to it just for the sake of a certain, selective demographic, it basically alienates what the original board game stands for any more; it’s basically like an entirely different entity now with own set of rules. I know that people like to make up their own ridiculous set of house rules and stuff that prolong the game longer than it should be, or make it something that it really shouldn’t, but what they’re trying to do here is pretty god damn crazy: No more property ownership, nor being able to buy houses or hotels at all? Now going into jail is the only safe space on the board that you don’t actually lose money but every other space does? And now instead of just one player trying to win and survive against the system - the whole goal is for everybody to win together as a group instead??? Jesus, f**k.

There’s change….and then there’s too much change. You wanna pass this game off to the younger audience and get more people playing it than before? Then changing pretty much the entirely of the game’s main structure that’s been there for the longest time isn’t the best way to do things. If you really wanna make Monopoly cool and hip again – why not include some of everybody’s favorite house rules and strike a nice balance between prolonging the game too much but also giving players plenty of surprises and possible comebacks when they’re down and possibly out... Or, you know, you could always just keep things the same way they've been for, for years and just make subtle changes here or there...like replacing the iron token a few years back with a cat one. That was a good idea (...if you didn't like the iron, that is, lol).

author=GreatRedSpirit
Should've added a rule where the price of everything goes up each time you go around the board too. The money from passing Go would of course remain the same.

Oh, you mean like increasing property values, right? I actually like this rule…especially if you’re playing with the Free Parking bonus or anything else that gives you a ton of money very quickly (like Lucky Roller or Double GO Salary). But considering that Parker Jerks and Hasboros won’t bother to put in something cool like this in their games anytime soon, I guess the next best thing you can do is to get a piece of paper and just right down how many times a person passes go and increase the value of their properties with every passing, I guess.

(It’s because I haven’t been posting as much, hasn’t it?)

But it’s good that you’re starting to come around more often here, WIP. We could use a lot more insight from the man who basically created RMN with his two, seemingly bare hands.

Hey, what about the Stanley Cup Playoffs and all those guys sporting all of those rockin’ beards? Does that not count?