FAQ

How to play?

Open the map. Select a territory. Buy real world businesses in this territory to make it your monopoly. You are the boss when you invest more than others. Color monopolies to show who owns cities and countries. Grow your influence to be famous and rich in Monopolist.io world.
What is the game objective?

Monopolist.io is a monopoly game on a real world map. The whole world is a grid of territorial monopolies. The monopoly is controlled by a player who invested more than others in real world businesses located the monopoly.

The objective of the game is to control the most monopolies and build the richest corporation in your city, country or the whole world. Monopolists of continents, countries and cities have territories they control colored in their corporate color.

Rewarding. You can earn coins ($C) and spend them to buy cryptocurrencies (Bitcoins & Ethereum), tangible gifts or game boosters in our shop. There are several methods to earn coins: trade monopoly advertising licenses, host or participate in tournaments, build your dealer network.
What is a corporation?

Your account is a Corporation. The value of a Corporation is the total price of shares of real world businesses you bought in the game.
What is a monopoly?

The world map in Monopolist.io is a grid of territories. Such a territory is a Monopoly.

A monopoly is controlled by a player who owns the largest value of shares in businesses within the territory. If a territory is controlled by a player it is colored in player’s color. So this way you can see who controls districts, cities, countries and even continents.
What is a cluster?

Monopolies are grouped in a grid of clusters. Clusters are visible on a larger scale on map. A cluster is controlled by the player who controls the most number of monopolies with that cluster.

So the most powerful monopolist is the one who controls continent level clusters. There are only few so powerful players and you can see them on the whole world map view.
What is a monopoly value?

The monopoly value is the total of investments made in all businesses located in that monopoly.

Monopolies with higher value earn more incomes for businesses, taxes for monopolists and higher welcome bonuses for new monopolists.

When a monopoly become popular your shares price becomes higher. So you can invest in new monopolies and then sell your shares when the price is higher.
Who are monopolists and investors?

Investors are players who compete on their corporation value (who is richest).

Monopolists are players who compete on number of monopolies they control (who controls the largest territory).

Top investors and monopolists are listed by their city, country or in the world’s best player list.
How to take a monopoly under my control?
Own the largest value of shares in real world businesses located within the monopoly territory.

There are two strategies to get control over a monopoly:
1. Buy shares in businesses. It is slow but guarantees your grow.
2. Attack and seize current monopolist assets. It is fast but you risk to loose attack fees that may be high.
How to buy shares in a business?

Find a location on map and click on the monopoly you want to fight for. Select a business, set a share and click Buy.
How to attack a monopolist and seize assets?

Check monopoly investors list. Click on current monopolist and attack. You will pay non refundable fee to cover investigation expenses. Wait investigation completion. If the investor does not block your attack you may win the case. After investigation is completed click deal preparation and wait for assets to be yours. When you own the shares you become current monopolist.

You can attack any investor this way but make attention on player activity to avoid loosing of too many fees. It is your decision what strategy to use: invest and grow or attack and risk.
Why do I need to grow my staff?

There are limits in the game that depend on your staff a lot.

You get the following staff after registration: 10 managers, 1 accountant, 1 cashier and 1 lawer.

A manager can control just one monopoly. So if you want to control more you have hire more managers.

An accountant lets you collect the income for last 24 hours. So if you need to collect the income for larger period you have to hire more accountants.

A cashier lets you collect income from 10 businesses in one go. If you have more businesses and do not want to spend your day clicking a button you have to hire more cashiers.

A lawyer can handle just one deal at a time. The time a deal completion depends on value of shares you buy, sell or attack. A deal may take from 10 minutes up to several days. So if you want to grow really fast you have to hire more lawyers.
How to boost my game?
1. 1. Hire more staff.
2. 2. Buy boosters.
24 hours booster:

It costs 100 $C coins and can boost your game for 24 hours. So cashing time and deals time will take only 5 seconds. The period of income collection becomes 24 minutes instead of 24 hours.

Business boosters:
1. 5 coins to collect income from all your business in one click
2. 5 coins to complete any deal in 5 seconds
3. 5 coins to collect income in a business for last 7 days
4. 10 coins to collect the income in a business for last 30 days
What are game currencies?
There are 2 currencies in the game:
1. 1. Cash ($M) - to buy business shares (you get 100 000 $M on registration)
2. 2. Coins ($C) - to hire staff or buy boosters, tangible gifts and cryptocurrency (bitcoin and ethereum) in our shop.
How can I earn cash ($M)?
Here are the ways to earn cash ($M):
1. 1. Collect the daily income from businesses you own
2. 2. Collect taxes from monopolies you control
3. 3. Topup cash with coins
4. 4. Monopolist welcome bonus. When you become a monopolist of a territory first time you get a welcome bonus. That bonus depends on the value of the monopoly. So invest in popular monopolies
5. 5. Affiliate program (invite your friends to get more $M when they register)
How to use cash ($M)?

You can spend it only when you buy shares in businesses.
How to earn coins ($C)?

Монеты можно купить за деньги, получить за постоянное посещение игры, пригласить друга, торговать лицензией за рекламу, просматривать рекламу, получать прибыль от использования коинов на вашей территории, в том числе от бонусов фонда инвесторов в зоне.
How can I spend my coins ($C)?
1. 1. To top up your cash wallet when you need urgent money - 5000 $M for 1 coins .
2. 2. To hire staff
3. 3. To buy boosters
4. 4. To buy advertising licenses
5. 5. To buy tangible gifts
6. 6. To buy cryptocurrencies (bitcoin and ethereum)
7. 7. To do PawerAttacks on other investors
How to collect the income?

The income in businesses is accumulated every 24 hours. Click Collect to get the income from your businesses. Hire more staff to collect the income for larger periods and from more businesses in one go.
What is a monopoly advertising license?

Advertising license lets you publish an image and a description on monopoly territory on the real world map. The license is not limited by time. So when you buy a license you can have your ad published forever. But if the territory is popular anyone can buy your license for 3 times higher price. So you can earn on trading licenses or buy it for a higher price to secure it for your business.
How to earn on advertising license trading?
1. 1. Select a monopoly and buy advertising license for a price you set yourself but higher than current license price. If you are the first license owner you may buy it for as low as 3 coins.
2. 2. When you buy a license the price increases 3 times automatically. So if anyone wants to buy it again it will have to pay 3 times more. If you want to secure the monopoly just buy it for a higher price.
3. 3. If someone buy the license you get the 66% of the price and the system gets 33%. This way you double your profit is 2 times higher than the price you paid for license. It is a guaranteed profit. The price of a monopoly never goes down. It increases 3 times each time someone buys it.
How to advertise in game?

Just buy advertising licenses and have your business on the map forever. Start from as slow as 3 coins (0.03$) and set the price yourself to secure your advertising forever.

FAQ mining

How mining works?

You can mine gold for coins in the territories with a mining license. The gold can be spent to buy mining license and rent your license to other players. The whole profit in coins from gold mining goes to license owner. The price of a license and mining depends on the local market competition.

So mining is a way to earn coins by learning how the market process works.
How to earn coins with mining?

You have to hold a license and rent it to others to mine gold. The price of mining is in coins and you set it yourself. The whole profit from gold mining goes to you as license holder.

The only way to buy a license is to spend your gold. The only way to earn gold is to mine it.There is no way to send gold to other players. You can not mine gold in territories with your license. So you have to pay other players to mine it.

There is a time limited possibility to buy licenses for $M. But you can buy only once and only 3 licenses for $M. This airdrop of licenses will finish when there are 1000 licenses sold for M$.

You can buy Bitcoins, Ethereum and gift cards with the coins you earn in the game.
What is gold mining license?

A license is needed to mine gold in a territory. The license has to be renewed once a year for a half price of a new license. The only way to buy and renew a license is to spend gold.

You can only rent your license for mining to other players but you can not mine in territories where you hold the license. This way you have to pay coins to other players to mine and others have to pay you.

This way you yearn coins holding licenses but you have to pay a part of your profit to other players to renew your license or buy new.
How to find the best price to mine gold?
The mining price is set by the license holder but it can not be less than the minimum local price.

The minimum local price depends on following factors:
1. The number of licenses around the place you want to mine. More licenses increase the mining volume and decrease the price of gold per Oz.
2. Number of pits in the territory you want to mine. Each pit multiplies the mined volume and decreases the gold price per unit.
3. The distance to the territory where you hold a license. The gold is more expensive if you mine it too far from your territory.
So mine in less popular locations to mine less but more expensive and mine in popular locations to more but a cheaper gold.
How to find profitable licenses?

The profit of your license depends on mining price.

Mining price is higher in locations with more licensed territories. But the price can be too high for new players.

Stand alone territories give a small profit but can be more interested for new players so you can rent your license often and have a good profit too.

Watch the market and find your own strategy to yearn more. Start with small and play to learn.