Re: Monoploy: Luck or Skill?
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Are any there any types of collusion that are disallowed? Can 3 players at the start of a game agree to not trade with the 4th player? Can one player sell all his properties to his buddy for a dollar? Does any of this happen in practice?
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Long term alliances often destroys the game, let's i.e. say there are 4 players left and the 3 weakest make a long term-alliance against the strongest player, then constructs a scenario where one of them wins, then the strongest player would often be chanceless. The game is more fun if alliances are prohibited, since this forces the weakest players to manage to agree on a trade that puts them all in a better spot which requires tough negotiation to find, as opposed to allying which every braindead monkey can do. Then if they find it, the game is open again and everybody can keep on trading with eachother and the strongest player, long term alliances only locks the game in a pattern. Wrt collusion, if you decide upfront that your buddy is going to win and he knows, his chances would be huge, I would say 90%+ in a 4-player game.
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