Monopoly City Streets is back

Well, Monopoly City Streets is back after the reboot. Can't say it worked out very well for me, they seemed to start again in the middle of the night, so when I logged in at 8:30am all the good streets had gone.

Add to that, a weird issue I had choosing my username and I'm beginning to think the reset is a sign I shouldn't bother at all.

They've also added a really weird tax system which doesn't work in the way of any tax I've heard of before, it basically forces you to limit the number of streets you have. Your first 5 streets are tax free and then for every street you have above that you get charged 3% tax on your total income. So if you have 38 streets you get taxed 100% of your income and won't get any cash. Seems a bit crap to me.

Monopoly City Streets

If you've been under a rock for the past couple of days, you'll have missed out on the launch of Monopoly City Streets. It's basically a giant worldwide game of Monopoly using Google Maps, so you can buy real streets around the world and build houses etc. You start with £3,000,000 and get more each day from rent on your streets and properties.

It was dog slow when it launched, but they've been adding more processing power and it actually runs quite well now and it looked promising. But ... lots of people weren't happy about not being able to get the streets they wanted at launch due to the performance issues, so they're now talking about resetting everything next week.

Hopefully, they'll think about this and give something back to users who have been playing for the past couple of days, otherwise it's completely pointless. If I don't get the streets I want when they relaunch will they reset the system again? Madness.