Goldeneye 64 was the best bang for our buck of any game we ever bought. We did the same thing with Perfect Dark.
Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)#Early_history
But since the rules of the game only allow you to build if you have a monopoly, when a JV is formed, all owners should nominate one person and transfer their properties (within that monopoly) to that person, who then becomes the owner of the monopoly and can do with it as he wishes.
This leads to a lot of fun situations when there is conflict between the JV parties about the usage, or if the owner requires money for financing something else, and decides to 'backstab' the JV partners. Keeps the game entertaining for hours!
And then play for hours towards your inevitable victory.
I would usually forfeit and leave whenever I wasn't first, and generally speaking so did anyone else.
As another comment posted, that is the point of the game. It doesn't always work out that way with house rules people use (knowingly or not).
No, not the other board game
Ultimately, screen cheating is a feature.
Halo worked well as the pistol (starting weapon) is all you really need. So there’s no massive disadvantage on spawn.
I remember playing online 2v2 (halo on xbox, there was no online so it was actually system link, lan, run over the network. Bloody hard work from Australia) in which screen cheating is most definitely a feature.
Nothing more bonding for two brothers to duke it out 1v1, and then discover you’re leagues ahead of everyone online in 2v2.
The PS2 had something similar (only two consoles) but it used Firewire because Sony is the Apple of Japan.
I gave up on PS2 games because the first few I tried would say 2 or 4 or more players and too many times they meant "1 per PS2" without disclosing that ahead of time where xbox and GC reliably had splitscreen on pretty much any multiplayer game.
So it has no real online features but they were grafed on by a bunch of tricks.
We used to connect across the Atlantic to a host in the US, dude had a fat fibre pipe so 16 player Halo 2 with 0 lag and modded features (like spawning a warthog for each player in blood gulch for Cat vs. Mouse games.)
Fun times. Halo 3 iirc made some changes to the netstack to break it though :(
The game has a lot of tricks too as I recall. Grenade launcher grenades only explode when hitting the ground, not other surfaces, so if you know what you're doing you can kill someone half way across The Complex with one. Oh, and some guns can shoot through doors, but the door must be open(ing) for it to actually register the hit, otherwise it is just rendering a tracer. Stuff like that.
Perhaps someday I will have an opportunity to save the world with my license-to-kill, postols-only, Complex skills. Only then will my misspent youth make sense.
Not sure screen cheating would work very well against the sniper that can shoot through walls though.
One of my honest bigger complaints about newer first person shooters is that they round all that corners off the map. There's no good sniper nests.
In Halo Infinite anywhere you could reasonably snipe from is out of bounds. They give you a grappling hook, but don't let you go anywhere interesting with it in the multiplayer.
As luck would have it, those skills were a great advantage when playing games like Halo LAN parties where I was sharing the screen with my allies rather than enemies. A quick glance and I could gauge their location, situation, and how best to help them out.
We had some people who relied on screen cheating so much they refused to play with it.
It was weird how split the community was on screem cheating or not back then.