Monopoly, an early 20th century board game, has been passed down to millions of people since its inception with variations as early as in 1903 with Lizzie Maggie's The Landlord's Game.

It became a cult favorite, with some auction monopoly games created by university students (e.g. a 1909 game in the University of Pennsylvannia's Wharton School of Finance), families and neighbors (Ruth Hoskins, 1929, teaching the game to her Quaker friends, rearranged by Jesse Raiford, passed down to Charles Todd, then to Charles Darrow), imitation games (Finance in 1932 by Dan Layman, Easy Money in 1935 by Milton Bradley, Big Business in 1936 by Transogram, Inflation in 1936 by Rudy Copeland), & even briefly by Parker Brothers (Fortune in 1935). The game's original intent on teaching how unequal distribution of wealth bankrupts your opponent has been played for pleasure, & has become one of the world's most recognizable board games in history, published in several languages, & countries.

Ladies and gentlemen, NCI presents to you one of The Sims 2's finest board game inspired neighborhoods. We introduce to you...Monopoly Game Town! And now a word from the master of the board, Mr. Monopoly himself, "Rich Uncle" Pennybags.



Mr. Pennybags isn't available in this download, but he may appear in later uploads by NCI. In the mean time, here's some info about the neighborhood that you can download. First and foremost, the layout is completely inspired by the board game itself. Each coloured group has two to three houses with similar themes. You can read about each house from the comments section that follow.



The neighborhood has a poor district leading up to a wealthy district, just like you would imagine from the prices of the property cards in the game. The neighborhood is heavily residential based, with only a couple of lots prepared for converting into shops. If you wish to add to the number of shops available, place them around the Chance or Community Chest card areas.

Much of the community lots are parks, with grills & swings. Other community lots serve as decoration (although are still able to be visited by your Sims). The board is surrounded by aquaducs, trees & ancient head stones that watch over the activities of the people living in the neighborhood.



To maximize compatibility, everything from this neighborhood is base-game created, thanks to Numenor's AnyGameStarter. Absolutely nothing in the neighborhood created has custom content by downloaders, including myself. So go crazy unfurnishing those homes with your own furniture, lol. Or if you absolutely despise the homes made by me, deletes those lots and make your own!

Just make sure to replace those homes with 3 x 5 medium lots, unless you want to divide the areas into smaller bits. If you want apartment towers, place them in the middle of the board (the "Administrative Area") to make the neighborhood look like a metropolis.
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Cool! So I can play this board game in multiplayer with other Simmers?
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What files are included with this download?
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Can I download only a house or two (or three or ten)?
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How do you install this Neighborhood?
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The welcome screen says to visit Pennybags in the center of town. Why isn't he in his house?
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The following is a list of lots from the comments section. That way, you don't have to sift through Pages 1 and 2 of picture intensive comments section.
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**PERSONAL USAGE POLICY (for this thread as of March 19, 2012)**
Use the neighborhood world for your personal use whichever way you'd like!

**PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION POLICY (for this thread as of March 19, 2012)**
Do not upload this neighborhood onto other websites. Instead, provide a link to this thread from your website. If you would like to discuss another sort of public distribution or special permissions, please contact me first.

**PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION POLICY (for this thread as of March 19, 2012)**
Do not take credit on purpose or make money off this download, and we'll be fine. Now if you did that by accident...ehh, lol. Cheers.
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Additional Credits
Credit goes to Mootilda for "Lot Adjuster" in adjusting the coloured lots into 3x1 sizes, and dice apartments/small parking lots into 2x2 sizes.

Credit also goes to Numenor's "AnyGameStarter" for making it possible to work on base-game only files (along for base-game/Apartment Life expansion pack files for the apartment files).

Credit also goes to Phaenoh for providing recommendations on improving the neighborhood. Thanks for reminding me, slipped my mind, lol.

Credit also goes to Maxis' SimCity 4 game for making road layout and compatibility possible for importing into The Sims 2.

AND a thank you to Mootilda and her HoodReplace program. It was useful in getting rid of a Sim user error that HoodChecker reported. Could be removed for those of you who already have the neighborhood, but the updated file (June 14, 2012) removed the error from start-up. DO NOT OVERWRITE your old neighborhood, as the new one has the same file names. EDIT: Apparently it can't be removed using HoodChecker. Luckily, the sim user data leftover isn't a critical error type thing. No one was related to the Sim person in question. So there can't possibly be gossip or memories about it.
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Basic Download and Install Instructions:

1. Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.

2. Extract: Use WinRAR (Windows) or Stuffit (Mac) to extract the .package file(s) from the .rar or .zip file(s).

3. Follow these or the front post's easy to read instructions for NCI-N044.rar & NCI-N045.rar only:

1. Download the neighborhood rar file of your choice.
2. Save it in your "EA Games/The Sims 2/Neighborhoods" folder
3. Extract the rar file inside that folder.
4. That's it, charge up the game.

IF you download the FULL VERSION neighborhood (NCI-N046, parts 1 to 5), follow these instructions:

1. Download all 5 neighborhood rar files.
2. Save it in your "EA Games/The Sims 2/Neighborhoods" folder
3. Extract the rar files inside that folder.
4. That's it, charge up the game.

AS for the Storytelling pictures, simply copy the files into the EA Games/The Sims 2/Storytelling folder. You may notice that the N04# folders have Storytelling folders too. Please keep those in, as the game won't recognize the Neighborhood screen without both folders in their respective places.

Need more information?

• For a full, complete guide to downloading complete with pictures and more information, see: Game Help: Downloading for Fracking Idiots.
  
  
• Custom content not showing up in the game? See: Game Help: Getting Custom Content to Show Up.
  
• Anyone can use both .rar and .zip files easily! On Windows, use WinRAR. On Mac, use Stuffit.