Meta World: My City Board Game Beginner’s Guide - Everything You Need to Know To Win All Your Matches

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Meta World: My City is a new mobile game developed by Netmarble that offers players a unique and immersive board game experience. This game mode, much like its “Meta World” real estate aspect, is set in a metaverse where players can buy and develop virtual lots and buildings, and engage in Monopoly-style gameplay. Moreover The game’s mechanics allow players to compete with each other in a 1v1 format to control the most valuable locations on the board. To do so, they must not only rely on buying and upgrading lots, but also on using their character cards at the right moments in order to seize the advantage and outsmart their opponent.

The board game aspect of Meta World: My City is one of the game’s standout features. Its mechanics are easy to learn but difficult to master, making it a game that is accessible to players of all skill levels. As mentioned above, this game mode also revolves around a real estate mechanic where you must build and upgrade lots, in order to try and bankrupt your enemy if they land on your structures. As such, players must decide how best to allocate their resources in order to maximize their profits. 

In this guide, we’ll be explaining everything you need to know about the board game aspect in Meta World: My City, in order to help you win all your matches and earn tons of currency in the process.

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Board Game Basics

The board game aspect in Meta World is available right from the very start, as it’s the first mechanic introduced to the player right after they finish setting up their avatar. In a nutshell, this game plays like a quick version of Monopoly, where players must take turns moving across a board, and purchasing properties as they land on them, in order to make their opponents pay fees if they’re unlucky enough to land on your lots. The idea is to win matches by either making your opponent go bankrupt, such as in the case when they can’t pay the tolls if they land on your lots, or by reaching the construction goal of  the current difficulty, which anyone can achieve by building enough structures on the board.

Players each start the game with a set amount of cash, which can vary depending on the cards they are carrying in their decks—more on that later—, and they can earn more money by circling around the board and going through the starting tile; by making their opponents pay fees if they land on any of the player’s properties, or through the effects of any special character cards.

Though the majority of the tiles on the board consist of purchasable lots, there are a few special tiles that can create a variety of unique effects if the players land on them.

Winning Conditions

The number of points required to earn a construction victory varies according to the channel in which you’re playing, with Rookie requiring 10 points while the Champion difficulty requires 20 points. Additionally, from Pro I difficulty and onwards, it’s also possible to win a game by achieving a Line Monopoly, which is when a single player purchases all four properties on a single side of the board. 

It’s important to mention here that, instead of rolling actual dice to move in this game, players have dice cards that they can play at any moment. As such, it’s possible to pick and choose how many tiles you want to move on each turn, represented by the numbers of each card. Players start with 3 dice cards, and these are replaced every time one of them is used. However, players can have up to 5 dice cards at any given moment, as it’s possible to receive more dice cards through the effects of character skills, or through meeting other conditions while playing.

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Special Tiles on the Board

The board consists of a much smaller version of Monopoly’s, consisting mostly of lots that players can purchase, but with a few special tiles that can produce special effects if players land on them. Four of these tiles are located in each of the corners of the board, while there are also two additional Card tiles located on opposite sides of the board. Their effects are the following:

• Starting Tile: This is where players start the game, and is also where players can claim their salary whenever they run a full lap across the board and circle back to the starting tile. The salary of the players is determined by the current channel in which the players are playing, with higher-level channels granting higher salaries per cycle. Additionally, if players land exactly on the starting tile, they gain the ability to perform Remote Construction on that turn, allowing them to build or upgrade a structure on any lot on the board.
• Uninhabited Island Tile: Located across from the starting tile, players who land on this space will be sent to the Uninhabited Isle, where they can only get out on the next turn if they pay a fine, or by rolling doubles.
• Shop Tile: Players who land on this tile are presented with a menu where they can spend money to purchase unique bonuses, some of which can even turn the tide of the game if used in a timely manner.
• Train Station Tile: Players can pay a fee to move across the board if they land on this tile. Alternatively, they can choose to skip the trip and continue playing normally by rolling the dice on their next turn.

Aside from these four corner tiles, there are also two green “CARD” tiles on opposite corners of the board. If players land on these, they will automatically draw cards that can grant a variety of effects, some of which can be beneficial, while others can be used to disrupt the enemy or change elements on the board.

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Buildings, Upgrades, and Tolls

One of the key aspects of the board game is the building feature, in which you can pay to construct structures on the lots that you land in. This will effectively flag the lot and put it under your control. As such, if your opponent ever lands on a tile owned by you, they will have to pay the toll indicated on the tile, which will go straight to your account. However, depending on how upgraded the tile is, they can also choose to buy it from you, giving you more money, but passing the corresponding tile to their ownership.

Whenever you land on any given space that isn’t a special tile, you can choose to build three different structures—villas, buildings, and hotels. Each of these buildings have a different cost, and will raise the value of the lot accordingly, with the most expensive buildings incurring a larger toll on the enemy if they land on it. Furthermore, if you land on a tile that you already own, you can choose to reinvest more money into it to turn your property into a Landmark, which not only bumps up its value and toll even further, but also blocks your opponent from buying it from you.

It goes without saying that, while having lots of properties is always a good idea in the Meta World board game, upgrading them to Landmarks is even better still.

Character Cards

From what we’ve explained so far, this board game inevitably looks like a much smaller version of Monopoly. However, Meta World breaks out of this similarity through the character card mechanic, through which players can unlock and upgrade a variety of character cards, and build decks that they can equip when playing the board. These cards allow you to use special skills in-game that can produce a variety of different effects.

Each character card has one active skill along with up to four passive effects. The latter effects are always active as long as the card is equipped to the current deck. However, the active skills must be used manually when the Active Skill Gauge is fully charged. Players can charge up this gauge both by using dice cards, as well as by passing through the starting tile, with both actions granting +1 to the skill gauge.

The proper usage of these cards can turn a match from a sure loss, to an easy win. However, to get the most from these cards, players must mix and match them in their decks and come up with powerful combinations. Additionally, by upgrading these cards, players can not only enhance their active and passive skills, but also unlock additional passive effects. As such, it’s always worth investing resources into your favorite cards, as this will let you get a leg up in the game.

Setting Up Your Deck

Before you can use your cards in the board game, you’ll first need to set up your deck. There are two main elements to consider when building your decks in Meta World: My City:

• Deck Slots: The total number of cards that a player can carry in their deck. This number starts at 2 cards in Rookie difficulty, and increases up to 4 cards in Pro I and onward.
• Deck Capacity: Each card has a specific cost when equipping it to a deck, represented by the number on the upper left corner of the card itself. While your deck slots define how many cards you can equip, their combined costs can’t exceed your current deck capacity which, just like with slots, is defined by the difficulty. Rookie decks start off with a capacity of 3 points, and this number increases to up to 40 points in Champion III.

You can set up your decks in the “My Characters” menu at any moment. We suggest spending some time on this screen when you have a larger roster of cards, in order to figure out the best combos and synergies.

Obtaining New Cards

At the moment of launch, there are 29 different character cards in Meta World: My City, each with their own set of active skills and passive traits. Though you can get a few cards for free as welcoming gifts, the main method for obtaining new cards is from the Character Summon menu, which is essentially a gacha system. By paying Crystals, a premium currency, players can perform pulls from the gacha with a chance to receive new and powerful character cards.

As we mentioned in our currency guide for Meta World: My City, there are different types of currencies that players can earn by playing this game, both in the board game and in the real estate aspects. When it comes to summoning new character cards, the main type of currency used for these transactions is Crystals. Meanwhile, in order to upgrade your cards, you’ll need a combination of gold and character memories. The former is a common currency earned by engaging in most game modes, while the latter is earned exclusively by summoning duplicates of the character you wish to upgrade, which are automatically converted into these memories. 

Both upgrading and promoting character cards can take a lot of time and patience, especially given the RNG nature of the gacha system. Nevertheless, it’s worth keeping an eye out for not only strong character cards, but also for keeping them as upgraded as possible, in order to maximize your odds of winning.

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