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intrepidcoder / monopoly

A fully functional Monopoly game in JavaScript and HTML/CSS. Play online: https://www.intrepidcoder.com/projects/monopoly/
MIT License
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Anti-monopolist ruleset #38

Closed eight-molecules closed 2 years ago

eight-molecules commented 2 years ago

I got an email from Tom Fotheringham and he requested I add an issue here to bring it to your attention. I did mention 99% of the credit goes to you @intrepidcoder. It's an interesting concept and the guy is pretty cool.

Hello,

I just discovered the Monipoly game which you and Daniel Moyer wrote.  I have some ideas on how this could be made into a significant contribution to the field of political economics, specifically to the ideas of Henry George.  As you probably know Monopoly is based on the Landlord's Game patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Magie to educate users about Georgism.  There were two sets of rules, one monopolist which results in only one winner, the other anti- monopolist which results in all players winning (not losing).

With slight changes to the game you have written I believe you could achieve Magie's goal by allowing users to adjust the rules and have it played by all AI players letting the game run automatically for thousands of moves in seconds. The object would be to find the smallest changes to the standard rules that would result in the highest number of iterations without anyone losing. The point of this would be to illustrate how our economic system could be adjusted to basically eliminate poverty. If you're interested I'd love to share more. I'm a retired programmer 75 years old. I could maybe do it myself but I'd rather share the project with others. Let me know if you or anyone you know might be interested.

Tom Fotheringham Ottawa, Canada

intrepidcoder commented 2 years ago

Seems like an idea for a mini research project. I don't know anyone who would be interested, but of course you or anyone else is welcome to fork the repo and try it. Although even with the existing rules, my experience is that when all the properties have been bought, no one player owns a single color group, and all players refuse trades that would give another player a full color group, is it very difficult to force a bankruptcy, so I could see the game lasting indefinitely in that scenario. I'm going to close since this isn't actually a bug in the project.