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Mayor powers, the ministerial roles, renaming, and reading city info.
The mayor can toggle city visibility and assign city roles to trusted members. Roles unlock as the city builds certain buildings and share specific responsibilities with the mayor:
/build and choosing the crest it flies from /city → 🛡 City Crest. Can also buy luxury goods at the Trading Post — but only until the city builds a Customs House, after which specialty buildings produce luxuries and that vendor section closes./craftworks./export, so the city's surplus keeps earning Treasury every hour. See the Export Market./city → 🔬 Research./city. See Minister of Zoning.That is every role a mayor can hand out. A role only appears in the /roles panel once the building that unlocks it is standing, so a young city sees a short list that grows as it builds. A player can hold more than one role at a time, and the mayor keeps every one of these powers regardless of who else holds them.
/city → 👥 Citizens → 🎖 Assign roles. Tap a member to see their current role, then tap a role button to assign it — no typing required. Assigning a role to a new member automatically transfers it from whoever held it before. Tap 🚫 Remove Role to clear a member's role. Mayor only.
The mayor can change the city's display name (the friendly name with emojis) for 500💸 treasury. Open /city and tap ✏️ Rename City, then send the new name (up to 32 characters). The city's handle and web links stay the same, so nothing breaks.
Three rules on custom names. They can't contain a slash (/) or an at-sign (@). Chat turns those into links — an @ name becomes a tap-through to someone's account, and a name starting with / reads as a command — so names that would mislead people aren't accepted. A single letter can carry at most four accent marks: pile on more and they spill out of their line and smear over the text above and below. Four is more than any real writing needs, so this won't get in the way of a name in any language. And a name has to be one line — no line breaks or tabs, which stretch a name down the screen and shove everything below it out of view.
Everything else is fair game: letters, numbers, spaces, punctuation, apostrophes and emojis all work. All three rules apply to every name you type yourself — your city, your buildings, your districts and your pets — and names you already have are untouched.
From the 🏛 City panel, tap 📊 Building Stats to inspect any building your city has — available to every member.
🌐 Every city also has a public web page. Visit the rankings page and click any city to see its full profile — stockpile, buildings, a public summary of building stats (visits, prestige, and production totals), active project progress, city bonuses, and the full citizen roster. No login required.
Once your city's Library reaches Level 6, it stops being a building that pays a bonus and becomes a research institute. This is the spine of the Age of Technology: almost everything the tier adds is something your city chose to study, and no two cities will end up having studied the same things in the same order.
Open it from /city → 🔬 Research.
Research Pages are the currency, and the city earns them by the hour. Your Library's researchers add 10 Research Pages to the city's bank every hour, and the city pays them a flat wage of 500💸 treasury an hour for it. That wage is the only thing research ever costs in treasury — individual pieces of research are paid for in Research Pages and nothing else.
If the treasury can't cover the wage bill one hour, the researchers simply stop work for that hour. Nothing is lost and nothing is clawed back — your banked Research Pages and every part-funded piece of research stay exactly as they were, and the researchers start again the hour the treasury can pay them. The Research panel tells you plainly when this has happened.
Anyone in the city can lend a hand. A 🔬 Contribute Research action in your queue spends one of your hours in the Library and adds 5 more Research Pages to whatever your city is working on. There's no picker and nothing to choose — the hour is the contribution; where it lands is the city's decision, not yours.
A city can appoint a Minister of Research. The mayor can hand the seat to any citizen from /roles once the Library is at Level 6. The Minister's job is exactly one thing — deciding what the city studies next — and their powers there are identical to the mayor's; neither can do anything in the Research panel the other can't. Nothing in the tree ever requires the seat to exist, so a solo mayor is never locked out of anything, and a city with citizens to delegate to gets to delegate. Everyone else can still open the tree and read all of it, and anyone at all can contribute to it.
There are many branches and no single right order. The tree runs across nine subjects hosted by five different buildings — your Library, your Hunter's Lodge, your Bank, your Market and your Chamber of Commerce — and a subject's research only opens once that building is at Level 6 too. Within a subject, the first piece of research opens the rest of it, and each level of a branch needs the level below. Beyond that the order is yours. Nothing in one subject is ever a prerequisite for another. A locked line always names what is holding it — "Needs your Market at level 6." — so you never have to work out which building a subject belongs to. Each line is marked so you can read a subject at a glance: ✅ finished, 🚧 started, ▶️ ready to start, and 🔒 waiting on something. A locked line shows its price too, so you can save up before it opens — and the Research page lists every price in the tree.
What's in there, in broad strokes: denser neighborhoods and the tools to manage them in bulk; legibility — panels that tell you how long your goods will last and what each one earns and burns; automation, including queue slots that are yours permanently and a queue item that decides for itself what to do when its hour comes; naturalism, which puts new animals into the old hunting grounds; finance at the Bank; wages and demand at the Market; logistics at the Chamber of Commerce; patronage, which is what lets you commission a new generation of landmarks; and fortune, which reaches into scratch tickets and bingo prizes.
It is meant to take a long time. The cheapest piece of research in the tree costs 200 Research Pages and the dearest runs into the thousands, against 10 an hour from your own researchers. A city's tree is a project measured in weeks, not in an evening — this is the tier's pacing, not a wall to grind through. Every branch pays something on its own the moment it finishes, so the walk is worth taking one step at a time.
⚠ Committing Research Pages is permanent. Once they go into a piece of research they stay there, whether or not the city ever finishes it, and whatever the city decides later. There is no refund and no moving them somewhere better — unlike a district, which can be taken down for half its materials back, research buys knowledge, and knowledge can't be un-learned. That's why the panel asks you to confirm before every commitment, however small, telling you exactly how many Research Pages you are about to spend, whether it finishes the job, how much more it would still need afterwards, and what the city keeps in the bank. Read that screen; it is the only undo there is.
When something finishes, the whole city hears about it — a line in every citizen's next hourly report, naming what the researchers completed. It is a city's achievement, not a minister's.
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