Every city starts with a name and a mayor. Make them count.
GOAL: Found your city and grow it big — paint roads and zones, keep the lights on and the budget alive.
Paint roads. Paint zones. The city builds. Keep the lights on.
👆 TAP — pick a tool, tap a lot to inspect it.
✋ MOVE — the hand tool. Grab the map and drag to look around the whole city. It never builds. Tap a lot to inspect it.
🖌️ DRAG-PAINT — roads paint as lines, zones paint as rectangles. The status line shows the running cost. Release to build.
🤏 PINCH / + − — zoom the map. With the Inspect or Move tool, drag pans.
🛣️ PAINT ROADS. 🟩🟦🟨 PAINT ZONES. THE CITY BUILDS.
⚡ DROP A COAL PLANT touching the roads — power travels along roads and lots. No plant, no growth.
📊 WATCH THE RCI BARS — they are the city telling you what it wants.
🔍 WHEN IT STALLS, TAP THE LOT. THE CITY TELLS YOU WHY.
There is no wire tool. Roads ARE the wires. If a lot says "no power", it is not connected to a plant by road or lots, or the grid is at capacity.
Projection: —
The budget screen never jokes about your treasury. These numbers are the same numbers Stats shows — one source of truth.
The mayor may call a disaster on his own city. House tradition. Cooldowns apply — even to mayors.