I like how the location-based theme was implemented.

Yo Ariel! FWLIW the game concept started around properties in cities, set in the late 1940s. Ariel picked that ball up very nicely.

However, I find the text on the background map to be distracting.

Printed here it almost vanishes in the general blur of the background.

I also became attached to the candy colors which have now been muted, but maybe just because that was the first version I saw.

Yeah, I liked them too, but this presents more easily and has a lower digestion factor. The overt styling also gets a fair bit of praise.

Have you considered scaling down the theme to areas within a city?

Briefly. I didn’t find neighbourhoods as resonant as cities and few cities outside of London and New York have more than a couple easily regions that are easily recognised by a global audience.

Have you considered scaling down the theme to areas within a city? San Francisco or New York for example? The theme works better for me at this level. I never understood Manhattan’s theme implemented in a similar way to the current version of Corner Lot.

A small typo: the advanced rules talk about empy lots.

Thanks. Fixed.

JC, could you please resend the link to me. I’m interested in seeing how the changes turned out.

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