One massive improvement is the simple creation of email accounts. For a regular computer user such as myself it has never been difficult setting up new emails but for more novice users it has been more challenging as they are not expected to know what their STMP settings are. Well now Thunderbird will look them up for you. All you need to know now is your email address and password and Thunderbird does the rest. It also asks for your password on initial setup of the account which is something i’ve always thought it lacked.

Another new feature is the improved search. Again, it is not something that I use much and when I do I usually do a basic search of subject titles or message content of recent emails. But if you’re looking for a certain email from a certain someone that contains a certain phrase then you can easily find the exact email you are looking for. Thunderbird lists the senders of the emails down the left hand pane and also displays a graph showing the months the emails were sent in. All this information of course, is stored in it’s own tab.

A more detailed list of the new features can be found here.

I think Thunderbird has taken a step backwards graphically. All the graphics and even the logo itself look more outdated than in the previous version. To me they give the whole program a feel of Windows 2000 and considering the program itself doesn’t use very many graphics anyway, I would have expected more effort to have been put into the few it does contain, or at least keeping the same would have been enough. Of course this doesn’t alter the performance of the program in any way and for me Thunderbird still remains the number 1 free email client in the world.

 

You can gain more income from streets by buying buildings for them. There are quite a few buildings available ranging from small houses for $50,000 to Monopoly Towers which costs a hefty $100m to buy. There are also bonus buildings and hazards that you can only build if you get a chance card. Chance cards are recieved randomlly after buying buildings. There are 5 types of chance cards from what I can see. They are: Fines, Cash increases, bonus building, hazard building and demolish a building. Hazards and buildings such as power plants and prisons that can be placed on other peoples roads. By placing one of these down you stop that road from recieving any income until the other player demolishes your building or place a bonus building down. If a road already has a bonus building on it you cannot place a hazard on it. You can also demolish buildings, such as hazards on your roads or other peoples bonus buildings.

There are local and world wide leaderboards. Overall I don’t see a great deal of point to the game. It’s wise not to purchase many roads as you get taxed on every street you own after the first 5 so it’s far better to buy 5 long roads and place lots of buildings on them. I have just found myself gradually adding buildings to my few roads each day. What I do after this I don’t know. There will never be one ultimate winner to this, nor is there any prizes or gains if there were. It’s a little bit of fun to kill a few minutes each day but nothing more.