Talk:Monopoly/Stock Exchange

I have been interested in hearing from people who want to make a vast improvement to the stock exchange component along with serious modification to monopoly as well...

While Parker Brothers put this Stock Exchange c. 1936 add on to MONOPOLY c. 1935 Their basic change does very little to the game ... excpt use for collateral or collect dividends... and the CHESSEX version did allow for more options and minor conditions in the Stock Exchange Market, my ideas are worth quite a few serious changes in the game.

For starts:

You can buy a house or a property at the mortgaged price just like you do today.

Each time you pass go you collect your go salary less 10 % of your morgaged properties because You rent out part of that to a renter and pay part of the interest on the mortgage ... the bank gets that rent as interest only on the mortgaged property. To pay the Mortgage you must pay it off in full plus 10 % interest.

Instead of just buying your property at face value when you land on it you can do 4 things now:

a] Buy the property at its mortgaged value

b] pay the bank the rent it says on the title deed *

* this idea was in the Landlord game copyright 1904 ...

c] buy the property at full value

d] auction it off and if you don't buy the property the you pay the rent to the winner of the auction... if nobody buys the property you must pay double rent to the bank. This is because the bank acted as your agent at the auction to sell the new property and the bank ain't free

If you land on someone's mortgaged property should not exempt the lander from paying the rent like Parker Brothers rules say it should ... Here the Bank collects the rent as "interest on the Amortized mortgage as it would in real life."

Taking Boardwalk as the example you can: a] buy property at $200 [$200 mortgage] b] Pay $50 rent for landing there to the bank c] Pay $ 400 full price to the bank d] hold an auction to buy it at whoever wishes to get it ... if you are the highest bidder just pay the highest bid to the Bank. If you are not, you pay $50 rent to the winner of the auction. If nobody buys it after an auction was declared, you pay $100 rent. [PS who would not jump at buying Boardwalk for $1 but there are properties that people might not buy at all on any auction.

Instead of having just the stock exchange selling stocks and paying dividends .. I propose a few chaanges ..

a] buy a single stock any time on your turn at list value plus a broker's fee of 10 %... or for List price plus $1 broker's fee on stock exchange for all transactions

b] usng your photocopy of the set from Hasbro of the stock exchange parts photocopy the shares and change the values to make the stocks go from $10 to $200 a share in increments of $10 print out a minimum of 15 copies of these shares ...

Make some market change cards that affect the whole market [GO salary, Shares, stock market and real estate market 2 areas in real estate title deeds and house/hotel fluctuations ... ranging from -10 to + 10 range level the 0 level is the original starting point of the entire market

make a scaled market value sheet affecting every one

Make dividend sheet for all 20 different stock certificates ...

Stock levels go from 0 x [hand in stocks and reset the market level to normal] to Double value [Hand in get a split 2 for 1 on every stock you own title deed prices are also fluctuating at different rates ..

You can add a bank foreclosure give up a property or a house to chance /comunity chest

A bankrupt card ... hand all in and start over and even if you own almost all the property. Yes Mary, millionaires do go broke in poor investments.

It cost you low rates or high damage claims on you

...you will be changing stocks frequently when you own these stocks will change so you need to have the incremented stocks .... Bull market ... all prices go up one level Bear Marker .. all prices go down 1 level High inflation market prices jump up three levels Recession cause the market to go down 3 level Each level is calculated at a differnt percentage from normal or starting point ... houses and title deeds are thus fluctuating as well..

What interesting is that some of these cards in chance and community chest affect all the people on the board.... Builders do go ON strike so you can't build until all PLAYERS PASS GO.

AND STOCK EXCHANGE ALLOWS FREE PARKING ONLY IF YOU DO BUSINESS WITH THE MARKET ... IT'S NOW METERED PARKING IF YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING ON THAT SQUARE YOU HAVE SOME THINGS YOU CAN DO ... OR BUY A STOCK FOR $11 DOLLAR [$ 1 BROKER FEE] PAY A $15 PARKING FEE, ROLL THE DICE AND TAKE SOME CHANCES ... INCLUDING A TRIP TO THE CITY JAIL OR PAYING DOUBLE RENT FOR DAMAGING SOMEONE'S HOTEL.