🏙 UrbanPact

The Game Loop

Once you're in a city, every hour the game runs a tick that processes everything in order:

1. Building production — each city's buildings add resources to the shared stockpile
2. Wages — every player with a city earns 100 gold automatically. A city's Market boosts this wage by a percentage; the Bank pays an additional flat dividend to home-working citizens.
3. Trade routes — active trade routes between cities move resources
4. Your queued action fires — the oldest action in your queue executes and is removed
5. Build project draw — if your city has an active project, required materials are pulled from the stockpile
6. City Score — every unit your members produce that hour (gathers, crafts, building output) is added to your city's running score; visiting other cities' premium buildings adds points too. Score only ever goes up — spending never reduces it
7. Premium visits — queued visits fire: the visitor pays an admission ticket that goes to the host city's citizens, and out-of-stock buildings are stocked by a Tycoon importer (or close their doors, free of charge)
8. Tier promotions — players who hit their thresholds are promoted automatically
9. Tick reports — each player receives a summary of what happened that hour

Hourly tick report

After each tick completes, the bot sends you a summary of everything that happened that hour:

• What your queued action produced — or your background gather contribution if your queue was empty (3–5 units of your last-gathered resource)
• If your action had a 💤 Rested bonus — earned from idle ticks, gives +50% yield to that action
• Wages earned, any Bank dividend, any Estate-track treasury contribution, and reputation gained
• Your city's total building production for the hour
• If your city had premium building visitors: a ✨ Visitors to your city block naming each visitor and which building they came to see
• Longer sections arrive folded. The visitor list, the mayor's hunting ledger, and the Residential Districts section each collapse into a tappable quote — you see the headline at a glance, and tapping the section expands the full detail right in place. Everything else (your action, wages, production, trade, exports, advice) stays fully visible.
• If your city has an active build project: a progress snapshot showing the name, percent complete, and which resources still have a shortfall
• A 💡 personalized advice line — if your queue fired, an AI-generated one-sentence tip based on your current state. If idle, a nudge to queue actions plus your current rested charge count.

You'll receive this message whether you were online or not — check in at any time to see what changed while you were away.

💡 AI Tips — full strategic review

Beyond the one-line tick tip, you can request a full strategic review anytime: open /help (or tap 📜 Help) and hit the 💡 Get AI Tips button. The AI advisor looks at your complete current state — queue, tools and levels, city stockpile, active project shortfalls, buildings, consumables, rested charges — and returns 3–5 numbered tips tailored to your numbers.

Tips are cached for 1 hour; the button shows ✓ cached when your last review is still fresh and refreshes automatically once the hour is up.