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53 lines
2.3 KiB
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# Monopoly Ledger
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A Javascript tool to support more diverse rules for Monopoly not easy to implement with cash.
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This project is in keeping with the original purpose of Monopoly's predecessor, The Landlord's Game, which was to demonstrate the effects of different economic rules. The use of a digital ledger also enables a far wider variety of rule-sets than would be possible with cash.
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Created with the assistance of ChatGPT based on an original Python prototype.
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## Possible rules
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The following are example rule changes that can be tried up against the standard rules.
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### Goals
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* All players win when each player has built a hotel
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* Pay more taxes than anyone else
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* Bankrupt the bank
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### Rules
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* Rents are paid to pot
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* Rents are paid to all other players
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* Pot distributed to a player who rolls doubles
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* Land tax paid to all other players on passing go (percentage of total property values)
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* Ban gifts and trades
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* co-ownership of properties
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* no money. You get what you land on and trade
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* positive interest rates on cash
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* negative interest rates on cash
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* appreciation of property with time
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* venture capital investments from bank or other players
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* extractive or ballooning payments demanding growth
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* rule change vote
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* quadratic, 1p1v
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## Citations
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* [Coopoly](https://store.tesacollective.com/products/co-opoly-the-game-of-co-operatives) - "All players are on the same team and work together to start a cooperative business or organization and compete against the Point Bank"
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* [Monopoly Ultimate Banking Edition](https://instructions.hasbro.com/en-us/instruction/Monopoly-Game--Ultimate-Banking-Edition) - Official Hasbro game with credit cards, electronic ledgers, variable rents, and boom and bust cycles
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* [The Landlord's Game](https://landlordsgame.info/games/lg-1906/lg-1906_egc-rules.html) - The original version of Monopoly intended to teach Georgist idea, with several rule variants
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## To do
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* Do a game jam on alternative Monopoly rules, designing and testing them.
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* Use movable boxes dashboard js thing to allow moving
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* Rules tool
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* Enable initial and dynamic additions of rules atop standard rules
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* Enable voting on rule changes: 1p1v, quadratic
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* Levies tool
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* % of cash
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* % of property values
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* % of total wealth
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* % of transactions |