Monopoly Tycoon

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If you've played Monopoly, you'll have a fair idea of how this works. Of course, Monopoly Tycoon isn't completely true to the board game. If it were, the game would probably be uninteresting or too hard to play! Instead of buying property, houses, and hotels, you're concerned mostly with building and managing retail shops in Monopoly City (which is sort of like Atlantic City, but not). However, obtaining property, building apartments and hotels, and even chance cards still have a heavy influence on the game, and it is even possible to win (against CPU opponents, at least) without even building a single retail store in specific circumstances! How, you ask? Read on!

Table of Contents

Gameplay

• Controls
• Strategies

Walkthrough

Appendices

Hints and tips

• Remember, don't keep spare cash around. In fact, you can be in the red most of the game and yet be the most successful player, though it isn't always the best policy. Just make sure you're not in the red at midnight two days in a row unless you like being ejected from the game.
• Poll often, but when polling the area, poll all of the blocks around that area. While the block your potential store is on carries more weight as far as demand goes, surrounding blocks can carry a potent influence. If you don't know whether to build a cafe or a toy store, see if one of the surrounding blocks wants one more than the other.
• Know when to use the chance cards. If you're in the red and are on a 24-hour warning, the wrong chance card can smash your chances of remaining in the game! However, if you're so deep in the red at this point that you're almost beyond hope, take the chance card because the chance that it will help you outweighs any potential danger. Most of the time, take the card, unless you're in some financially unstable situation.
• Don't ever succumb to bankruptcy unless you're hopelessly behind. If you're on a 24 hour warning and you just can't pull out of debt, but you can get close, try to sell a business or two, preferably ones that aren't very profitable anyway, or perhaps a leased block that isn't doing you any good.
• Remember that the bidding order can play an important role in auctions.