The manual
The same guide the game carries behind its ? button, published here so you can read it before you ever install it. Every number in it is read off the rules the game actually runs, and the career charts are built from the same catalog the jobs are.
What to do, in the order to do it.
You are building a life, not clearing a level. A job that becomes a career, money that becomes property, a rented room that becomes a house you built, a name people know - in one world shared with everyone else playing, running whether you are here or not. There is no ending. There is what you make of it, and what all of you make of it together.
Open the City tab. It tells you which city you are in, what is near you, and where you can go. Nothing in this game is a menu item you can use from anywhere — a bank is a building, and you have to be standing in it.
The Career tab lists what is hiring. Take the best entry-level role you qualify for and work shifts. It pays badly, which is the point: the wage is a floor to stand on while you train out of it.
Every industry has five tiers. What separates them is skills, not time served — see the career charts.
Training runs while the app is closed. The single most common mistake a new player makes is leaving the training queue empty overnight, which is hours of progress bought for nothing and spent on nothing.
You pay 45 a day to live, plus rent, whether or not you play. Income that only arrives when you are looking at it will not cover costs that do not care.
Energy limits how much you can do in a day, and rest is how you get it back. A character who never sleeps is a character who spends every morning unable to work.
The ones people actually ask.
A game year is 15 real days. You start at 18 and a character lives to 80, so a whole life is about 2.5 years of real time.
When it ends, whoever comes next inherits the house you lived in, everyone you knew, half of every skill you had, and whatever you put in trust — paid to them weekly rather than handed over. They learn 3x as fast for life. Standing and work are theirs to earn.
To build a life. Start with nothing, get a job, learn a trade, buy a van, then a shop, then a house on a lot you own. Know people. Leave something to whoever comes after you. None of it is a level to clear - it is a world to live in, with everyone else who is playing, and it runs while you are away.
If you want something to aim at: the seats, and the boards. A President for the world and a Mayor for every city, elected by the players, each handed one hard decision a term that the whole world lives under. A rich list with a title on top of it. Cities that compete for a season. Ground a crew holds by walking it, on a map everyone looks at. And a wanted board with a price on every face.
Four things, in order: queue a skill, get a job, work a shift, go somewhere. The card on the home screen walks you through them. After that, the Work tab has quests - the long threads.
The tutorial can be run again from Profile, under Guidance. It walks every tab and says what lives there.
Yes. Training runs, rent falls due, shops sell stock, property earns, deliveries arrive and interest accrues. There is a cap on how much one absence can bank — long enough that a night is fine and short enough that logging in is worth doing.
Almost every refusal names what it wanted: a skill and a level, an amount of money, or a place you are not standing in. If it says you need a bank, it means the building.
Start where you started. Oakridge is the cheapest of 5, and Belvedere costs 112% more to live in. Moving up is a bet that you can keep paying for it: the rent goes up the day you arrive, and the better work and the better returns follow later.
New Avalon sits in the middle of the country with the roads and the railway radiating out of it, which makes it the shortest drive to everywhere else.
Rent until you have a supply chain. A rented flat costs money every week and can be upgraded in an afternoon; a house costs bricks, timber, glass and a fee, and getting those to an empty lot is the whole job. Once you can make them, the house is strictly better — no rent, ever, and you can keep building on it.
The catch is where. A lot in town takes a townhouse and costs what a lot in town costs; a lot out in the country is cheap and will never be more than a cottage.
Because it is a move. The van drives at a van’s speed and you are in it, with a while at each end for loading and unloading. It used to be instant, which made "upgrade my flat" the cheapest way to cross the city.
You cannot carry much and you are not meant to. A vehicle is the answer: what a car boot holds is several times what fits in your hands, and a van several times that again. Where you keep it matters too — stock is pinned to the building it is in, so a warehouse across the river is stock you have to go and get.
You can, but not by piling the whole bill of materials on it first. Mark the lot out for what you want, and materials go into the building as they arrive — bricks in a wall take up no room in the yard. Empty land holds very little on purpose.
Report it, and take the lesson: what you are carrying is what you can lose. Money in a bank cannot be taken off you in the street, and there are safer places still for somebody who knows where to look.
Yes. Some of what a person can do in a city is not advertised, is not on any syllabus, and will not appear in a list until your character has some reason to know it exists. You will find it by being somewhere you have no particular business being, or by knowing somebody who is.
That is all anybody is going to tell you.
Short, and worth more than they look.
It is the only thing that runs at full rate while you are gone. An empty queue overnight is the most expensive habit in the game.
Cash in your pocket can be taken; a balance cannot. It also earns, which cash does not.
Storage without transport is a pile you cannot move. The first van pays for itself faster than almost anything else.
The quickest way is not the only way, and it is the one the police are on. When it matters, take the long way.
Prices vary by venue and by city, and the spread on a load is the whole trading game. A market two towns over really can be worth the drive.
An empty building earns nothing and still costs tax and maintenance. Tenants first, upgrades second.
Half the game needs somebody else in the room. Bars, cafes, gyms and parks are the only places that list who else is there, and a contact is worth more than most purchases.
There is a weekly limit on what goes into it, so a large one cannot be built in a hurry at the end — only by starting early and keeping at it. It is the best rate in the game and nothing taxes it.
A building decays, and what your estate gets for it is half of what it is worth on the day rather than what it cost. Sixty years of neglect comes off whatever you leave behind.
Everything large has a standing cost — rent, upkeep, hangarage, tax. Work out what it costs you on a day you do not play before you sign for it.
Where it comes from and where it goes.
Upkeep is 45 a day, and rent starts at 200 a week for the cheapest room in the cheapest city. Both scale with where you live. Both are charged whether or not you open the app.
Wages, which are steady and small. Trade, which is buying goods somewhere they are cheap and selling them somewhere they are not. Property, which pays weekly once it is tenanted. And a business, which is a building you own with stock on its shelves selling itself while you are elsewhere.
They stack. Most characters who get anywhere are running three of the four.
You can borrow, and the interest does not care what you spent it on. Borrow against something that will earn — a van, a shop, a building — and never against a thing that only costs.
Cash can be taken off you. A bank balance cannot, but it can be seen, taxed, and in the worst case frozen. A pension is the safest thing there is — no tax touches it and nothing can spend it — and the price of that is you cannot touch it either until 50.
There is a fourth kind of account for people whose affairs need to be nobody else’s business, and no bank will open one for you.
Every company on the exchange has a range of its own and walks round it on its own clock. A utility creeps a tenth either side and takes over a week to come back. A crypto holding company halves and doubles inside two days.
Which means buying one and waiting is not a plan. Held for a month, almost anything on that board hands you back roughly what you paid. The money is in buying one near the bottom of its own range and selling it near the top, and the screen tells you which end you are at: every listing says where it sits in its range, what that range is, and how long it takes to get round it. The riskier the company, the wider the swing and the faster it comes round - which is another way of saying the more often you have to be right.
A shop or a works you own can be floated on the exchange once it has taken real money. It values at the building plus what it has proved it can sell, issues 10000 shares, and you keep 70% of them - the rest are sold to the market and the money goes to your bank.
This is the one listing on that board with no range and no ceiling. The twenty the world came with are pinned to what they listed at forever. A company somebody built is priced off what the business actually takes, so a shop that sells more every week is a share price that climbs every week, as far as it goes. The price of that: while it is listed you cannot sell the building, and taking it back off the exchange means buying every public share at whatever it is worth by then - which for a company that has done well is a great deal more than the flotation ever raised.
A savings account pays least and is always there. An offshore account pays more and can be audited. A pension pays most of all, is never taxed, and is locked until 50 with a limit on what goes in each week — so the only way to have a large one is to have started young.
How you get from the bottom to the top of a field.
Every job tier lists the skills and levels it wants. Nothing is unlocked by time served or by asking nicely: you either have the levels or you do not.
A shift pays today. A level pays every shift for the rest of the character’s life. Early on, the right amount of work is the least that covers the bills.
Sitting down at a desk or a bookshelf makes the thing currently in the training queue finish sooner. A better desk makes it sooner still.
The five attributes come up by doing — running, lifting, reading, talking, building. Skills come from the queue. Both gate things, and neither substitutes for the other.
The university teaches most of what there is. Most is not all, and the rest is learned from people rather than from courses.
The map, the roads, and everything on them.
It is one country, not five separate maps. New Avalon is in the middle with the highways and the railway radiating out of it, the other cities sit around it, and there are small towns strung along the roads between.
Every journey offers the fastest way, the main roads and the back streets, and shows you all three on the map before you set off. The main roads are quick and the most watched; the back streets are slower and quieter.
It does not matter how you started the journey. Whether you came from the travel list, from the map, or from something that told you to be somewhere else, you get the same map and the same choice — including the drive to another city, which is the longest one you will make.
Every town is joined to the network twice over: the trunk road from the city it answers to, and an older, slower road that takes a different line — usually to a neighbor rather than back the way you came. Between the cities the motorway has an old road shadowing it the whole way.
Which is what makes the back streets a real choice rather than a word on a button. Anything sitting on the main road — a patrol, somebody waiting for you — is a reason to take the long way, and there is always a long way.
The country roads have farmsteads on them, miles from anywhere. They are addresses like any other: a deed to buy, a lot to build on, and nobody within ten minutes of your front door.
Cheap, quiet, and a long way from the market. Whether that is the point or the problem is up to you.
A bicycle is free and slow. A car is the fastest thing on the road. Everything above a car trades speed for load, up to a truck, which is the slowest thing that is not walking and the only thing that empties a warehouse in one trip.
Nothing flies across town, and nothing flies from where you are standing. Travel out to the airfield first. Once you are on it you either take an airplane of your own, or buy a seat on a scheduled one.
Every city has an airport and every town has a strip — grass, a windsock, and room to put a light airplane down. A strip is half an airport: you can land on one and leave an airplane on one, and there is nobody there to sell you either.
You do not need to own anything. Every city airport sells seats to every other city, priced on how far it is, and you are on the ground for 6 minutes of it — three before it leaves and three before you get off.
It is the quick way to cross the country and the dear one — a coach is about two thirds the price and more than twice as long. In the air a scheduled airplane is as fast as the fastest thing anybody can buy, so if you are ever going to beat it, what you are beating is the six minutes. What a ticket cannot do is take you to a town: an airline flies between the cities because that is where it can fill an airplane.
Three of them, seating 2, 4, 6, flying at two, four and six times a car. They live at the field you left them at — pick the one you are flying, then pick where.
What stops them being a cheat is everything around them: a pilot’s license takes real study, they are sold only at a city airport because there is nowhere on a forecourt to put one, they cost as much as a house, and the hangar invoices every fortnight by the size of the airplane, flown or not. Past that they pay for themselves in fuel — every one of them crosses the country for less than a seat costs. They do not all cost the same to fly: the two-seater is the cheap one and the only airplane a scheduled flight will beat to the gate, and the six-seater is the fastest thing in the country and the dearest to run.
A ticket goes to four places. Your own airplane goes to every city and every town on the map, because all three of them are light enough for a grass strip.
It is the whole argument for the price. Half the map has no airline, no railway station and a long drive from anywhere, and the only fast way into a town is to fly yourself there. Cities and towns are two lists on the field for that reason; the strips are folded away until you ask for them.
The railway between the cities is freight. The yards are real places and the trains really run, and none of it will carry you: crossing the country is a road or an airplane. The airplanes overhead are real too, and on a schedule you can buy a seat on.
A pilot with a spare seat can offer it to anybody standing on the same apron. Take it and you leave when they leave — and if you wander off before they go, the airplane goes without you. Nobody can hold one.
Stock sits in the building it is in. You cannot summon it, and moving it is a journey with a vehicle. That is what makes a warehouse on the right side of town worth more than one on the wrong side.
A President for the world and a Mayor for every city, elected by the players, each with one hard decision a term.
Ten agents in four rings around him, at 15, 25, 50 and 100 parcels, and they go where he goes. The ground is marked on everybody’s map: red inside 25 parcels and yellow out to 75.
Cross into 50 parcels and somebody comes over and asks you three questions. Agree to turn around and you walk back the way you came, free. Refuse and they hold you 5 minutes and let you go at the station - no charge, and nothing on your record. They cannot prosecute anybody; what they can do is take you away from him. Stealth training buys ground: a little makes you uninteresting out at forty parcels, and nothing anybody can train gets you inside the last fifteen. There is no detail at all while he is offline, which is also why a seat is vacated after 5 days away.
A term is 7 real days. On its last day anybody with the standing can stand for a seat, and everybody votes. Most votes wins; a tie goes to whoever filed first. Nobody standing means nobody holds it, and the term runs on nothing.
Standing costs a filing fee - 25000 for President, 8000 for a Mayor - and it is not refunded. You need the standing to match: where you live, how you live and what you have made of it.
You can only stand for the Mayor of the city you live in, and only the people who live there vote for it. Move house to another city and you are a voter there instead.
On the first day of the term the holder is dealt three decrees and must pick one. Every decree gives everybody something and takes something from everybody - and the give and the take land on different people, so there is no free choice. A rent freeze is wonderful for renters and costs every landlord a third of their income. Free transit doubles fuel for anyone with a car.
Not decided by the end of the day, and the term runs on nothing. That goes on the record too.
The President's decree reaches every player in the world. A Mayor's reaches everyone who lives in the city, on top of the President's. The home screen shows both, with what they give and what they take, and the name of whoever chose.
Every term is kept: who held the seat, what they decreed, how many voted. A candidate says which decree they would make when they stand. It is not binding - they are dealt three and it may not be among them - but the record remembers what they promised.
The rich list, the cities, the turf and the wanted posters: what everybody can see and anybody can go for.
The ten best-off players in the world and in each city, as a band rather than a figure. First in the world is a title, and so is first in a city, until somebody passes you.
Every 4 terms the cities are scored: how many live there, how well off they are, how much trouble they are in, and whether the Mayor made a decree. The city on top when the season ends is the city of the season, and everyone who lives there pays less rent and learns faster until the next one.
Moving house to the winning city gets you the perks. Moving house is also how a city loses population, which is the first thing scored.
A crew holds a district by being in it. On the turn of every term, each district goes to the crew that walked it most that week - and a crew that never comes back loses it. Everyone doing business or paying rent on held ground pays the crew 3%. Held ground is drawn on the map in the crew's color, with the crew's name on it.
The hottest faces in each city, above 30 heat, and what the city pays for each. A poster is a description until somebody has put a name to the face: a victim who saw the robbery coming, a police officer or a bounty hunter who recognized them in the same room, a mark who lived. Heat is what the patrols know; a name is what people know.
Your own face can be on it. The board does not say so to anyone but you until you are named.
The other side of the badge, under Public Sector on the career chart. Paid per head rather than per shift: put a name to a face, then bring them in, by force, from the same room. They may run and they may fight. Brought in, they go inside, their heat is cleared, and the city pays you the bounty.
Once you know the syndicate you can put a price on somebody - at least 25000, held by the syndicate until it is done - or take a price somebody else put up. Doing the job takes the skill, a weapon, and the mark in the same room; it puts them in hospital and the heat on you is real. Botch it and they know your face.
The rent, the address, and owning the roof.
There are 5 rungs, from a Rented Room at 200 a week to a Penthouse at 6500 a week. What goes up is not only the size of the place: each rung is offered its own addresses, and the dearer the rent the more there is within walking distance of the front door.
You pick it off the map: every address you could take is a pin on the city, and tapping one tells you how many minutes it is to the market, the bank and the works, measured on the same roads you will drive. A cheap room is a long way from everything, and that is most of what makes it cheap.
A Rented Room holds 1 piece of furniture. The top of the ladder holds 7. Furniture is what lets you do anything at home worth doing, so moving up is how a home becomes useful rather than a place to sleep.
Choosing an address loads a van and drives it, and you go with it — your things, your address and you all arrive together. It is the drive plus 8 minutes for loading at one end and unloading at the other.
Everything at the old address comes with you: what was in the cupboard, the furniture, and anything of yours parked outside — with whatever is in its boot. A vehicle you left across town stays across town, because where a vehicle is has always been the point of them.
Moving up wants four weeks of the new rent as a deposit. Moving down is free, immediate, and never refused — the game will not trap you in rent you cannot pay.
You cannot use a move to get across town, and you cannot start one while you are already on the road.
Build a house on a lot you own and you can move into it. Nobody charges you rent for a roof you paid for, and the place is the size you built rather than the size somebody lets you.
There are eight of them, across four rungs, and every one is a different bill: cabin, cottage, farmhouse, house, villa, townhouse, manor, penthouse. Which you can put up depends on the ground. Each rung has a town form and a country form, so the planners will not have a townhouse on farmland and will not have a manor in the middle of a city - but no sort of ground is a dead end.
A house you own can be extended, one rung at a time, up to a Manor. It costs materials and a fee for the labor, and what you get is room for more furniture.
The materials have to be at the house - in its storeroom, in something parked outside, or in your hands - and the whole bill can be ordered in one go. The planners have the same say over an extension that they had over the house, and they answer rung by rung: out in the country a house becomes a villa and then a manor, in a city it becomes a townhouse and then a penthouse. Either way you get to the top.
Buying ground, and putting something on it.
There is no property portal. Travel to it, and the deed is on its screen.
What is for sale is whatever is for sale here - not where you live, and not the rest of the county. Walk into another town and the board is that town’s instead.
Every city and every town has one, down to the smallest, and every one of them has a market to sign at. Which means a quiet town is a real place to start: the same money buys more of it, and nobody else is looking. Out in the country between them there is no board at all, because there is nobody out there to sell you anything.
A shop or a works can employ people: a runner who fetches stock from the nearest supplier at a trade price, a clerk who sells more of what is on the shelf, a hand who works the bench at a works. Each is a wage a day from the bank, whether or not there was anything to do, and hiring is 3 days up front. A stocked shop with a runner and a clerk clears its wages and its overhead; an empty one pays them for nothing.
People are taken on at the door: travel to the building and the payroll is on its own screen, under your building. The list of deeds says what they are costing you and nothing else. You can watch them work - a runner out for stock is a van on the map, on the road between your shop and the supplier, with what they are carrying and when they are back.
An empty plot is tax and upkeep and nothing coming back. It is worth buying only if you are going to build on it or sell it on.
Mark the lot out for what you want, then feed it. Materials can be driven in or ordered for delivery at a quarter over the counter price, and what has gone in takes no room — a site holds only 60 units of anything.
Standing on a site, you can order everything it still needs at once. One truck per material, and each one holds at the gate until the one in front is clear of the yard, so you can watch them come down the road.
It is charged as one bill and it is all or nothing - a convoy that ran out of money halfway would leave you with half a delivery and no way to tell which half. It only orders what is actually short, so anything already in your hands or standing on the ground counts, and ordering twice tops the bill up rather than doubling it. Calling it off refunds every penny, one truck or the lot. Driving it in yourself is still cheaper. The same order works on a house of your own that has another room to go on. An extension wants its whole bill standing at the house on the day, so it is the one that benefits most.
Put stock behind the counter of a building you own and it sells while you are elsewhere, at a better price than dumping the same goods on a trader. That is the difference between trading and owning a business.
Your hands hold 14 units. Home is 70, the room behind a shop is a few hundred, and a rented warehouse is 1600. Every number is in volume, and a heavy good eats it fast.
The clock nobody can opt out of.
About 2.5 years of real time at 15 real days to the year. Age climbs whether you play or not, so what you do early is worth more than what you do late.
Nearly everything costs some. It comes back over time and faster in bed. A character who is always exhausted is a character trying to do a day and a half every day.
Energy is being tired. Health is being hurt, and it comes back slowly or in a hospital bed, which costs money and takes you out of the game while you are in it.
Custody is the same shape as a hospital bed: you are somewhere, you cannot leave, and the clock outside carries on. Rent still falls due while you are in it.
What a life is worth once it ends.
It pays the best interest there is and no wealth tax touches it. The catch is that you cannot draw on it until 50, and there is a limit on how much goes in each week — so a large one is only ever the result of starting young and keeping at it.
Whatever you put in one leaves your hands the day you sign and cannot come back. In exchange it is the only money that outlives you.
The trust is paid to them weekly until it runs out — about a game year of support, at whatever rate the size of it implies. Big estates buy big weekly payments, not a finished game.
They inherit the house you lived in, everyone you knew, and 50% of every skill you had — and they learn 3x as fast for the rest of their life.
And it keeps going: the generation after them learns 4x, and each one after that faster again. Standing does not pass — it is read off where you live and how well you live there, so an heir in your house still starts at the bottom of it.
Everything but the family home goes back on the market, and 50% of what it was worth on the day is added to the trust. The rest goes on winding the estate up.
Which means property is a way to leave money behind, and a trust you funded as you went is a better one. What is in the bank when you die goes with you.
Every industry in the game, and the five rungs of each. What separates the rungs is skills, not time served: you either have the levels or you do not.
| Industry | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finance & Banking | Bank TellerNumeracy 3 | Loan OfficerNumeracy 7 · Accounting Principles 4 · Small Talk 4 | Branch ManagerAccounting Principles 9 · Team Leadership 6 | VP of BankingCorporate Finance 10 · People Management 8 | Central Bank GovernorMacroeconomics 14 · Corporate Finance 14 · Executive Leadership 8 |
| Accounting | BookkeeperNumeracy 4 | Certified AccountantAccounting Principles 7 | Senior AuditorAccounting Principles 11 · Research Methods 6 | Chief Financial OfficerCorporate Finance 12 · People Management 7 | Forensic Accounting ExpertForensic Accounting 12 |
| Corporate Management | Executive AssistantSmall Talk 4 | Operations SupervisorTeam Leadership 6 · Active Listening 5 | Department DirectorPeople Management 8 · Negotiation 6 | VP of OperationsPeople Management 12 · Corporate Negotiation 6 | Chief Executive OfficerExecutive Leadership 10 · Corporate Negotiation 10 |
| Human Resources | HR CoordinatorActive Listening 3 | RecruiterProfessional Networking 6 · Small Talk 6 | HR DirectorHR Practice 8 · People Management 6 | Chief People OfficerHR Practice 12 · Executive Leadership 4 | Labor Relations MediatorMediation 12 · HR Practice 14 |
| Marketing & Advertising | Social Media AssistantSmall Talk 3 | Marketing AnalystMarketing Fundamentals 6 · Statistics 4 | Campaign ManagerMarketing Fundamentals 10 · Team Leadership 6 | VP of MarketingBrand Strategy 9 | Brand MogulBrand Strategy 14 · Mass Psychology 9 |
| Sales & Retail | Sales AssociateSmall Talk 2 | Senior Sales RepSales Technique 6 | Regional Sales DirectorAccount Management 8 · Team Leadership 5 | National Sales VPAccount Management 12 · People Management 8 | Sales Empire TycoonAccount Management 16 · Executive Leadership 6 |
| Management Consulting | Junior ConsultantResearch Methods 5 · Small Talk 4 | Management ConsultantResearch Methods 9 · Microeconomics 6 | Engagement PartnerCorporate Negotiation 7 · People Management 7 | Firm PrincipalExecutive Leadership 7 · Corporate Negotiation 11 | Global Consulting MogulExecutive Leadership 13 · Game Theory 8 |
| Real Estate | Leasing AgentSmall Talk 4 | Property ManagerNegotiation 6 · Accounting Principles 4 | BrokerAdvanced Bargaining 8 · Contract Law 5 | DeveloperContract Law 9 · Corporate Finance 7 · Framing 5 | Land BaronCorporate Finance 13 · Corporate Negotiation 10 |
| Insurance | Claims ProcessorNumeracy 4 | UnderwriterStatistics 6 · Probability Theory 4 | Risk AnalystProbability Theory 9 · Econometrics 4 | Insurance DirectorProbability Theory 12 · People Management 6 | Reinsurance MagnateProbability Theory 16 · Corporate Finance 12 |
| Legal Practice | ParalegalLegal Foundations 4 | Associate AttorneyLegal Foundations 9 · Contract Law 6 | Senior Litigation CounselCriminal Law 10 · Persuasion 7 | Managing PartnerCriminal Law 14 · People Management 8 | Supreme Court JusticeConstitutional Law 14 · Mediation 10 |
| Journalism & Media | Freelance WriterCritical Reading 4 | Staff ReporterJournalism 6 | EditorJournalism 10 · Team Leadership 5 | Editor-in-ChiefJournalism 14 · People Management 7 | Media MogulJournalism 17 · Brand Strategy 10 · Executive Leadership 5 |
| Entrepreneurship | Side HustleSmall Talk 3 · Numeracy 3 | Registered Business OwnerAccounting Principles 5 · Sales Technique 5 | Scaling FounderTeam Leadership 7 · Marketing Fundamentals 7 | Serial EntrepreneurCorporate Finance 9 · People Management 8 | Industry DisruptorExecutive Leadership 11 · Brand Strategy 11 |
| Industry | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automotive Repair | Lube TechnicianAutomotive Basics 2 | General MechanicAutomotive Basics 7 | Master TechnicianEngine Repair 9 | Shop OwnerEngine Repair 12 · Accounting Principles 5 | Performance House FounderPerformance Tuning 13 · People Management 6 |
| Electrical Contracting | Apprentice ElectricianElectrical Fundamentals 2 | Journeyman ElectricianElectrical Fundamentals 8 | Master ElectricianResidential Wiring 10 | Electrical ContractorIndustrial Electrical 8 · Accounting Principles 4 | Grid Infrastructure ConsultantIndustrial Electrical 15 · Classical Mechanics 6 |
| Plumbing | Pipe Fitter HelperPlumbing 2 | PlumberPlumbing 7 | Master PlumberPlumbing 12 | Plumbing Company OwnerPipefitting 8 · Accounting Principles 4 | Municipal Contract HolderPipefitting 14 · Corporate Negotiation 5 |
| Carpentry | Site LaborerHand Tools 2 | CarpenterCarpentry 7 | Master CarpenterFinish Carpentry 8 | General ContractorFraming 10 · Blueprint Reading 8 | Construction MogulFraming 14 · People Management 9 |
| Welding & Fabrication | Welder HelperWorkshop Safety 3 | Certified WelderWelding 7 | Master FabricatorTIG Welding 9 | Fabrication Shop OwnerMetal Fabrication 9 · Blueprint Reading 8 | Aerospace Components SupplierMetal Fabrication 14 · Materials Science 9 |
| HVAC | HVAC HelperWorkshop Safety 3 | HVAC TechnicianHVAC Systems 7 | Master HVAC SpecializtHVAC Systems 12 | HVAC Company OwnerIndustrial Refrigeration 8 · Accounting Principles 4 | Climate Systems DesignerIndustrial Refrigeration 14 · Thermodynamics 8 |
| Masonry | Mason's AidHand Tools 3 | Journeyman MasonMasonry 7 | Master MasonMasonry 12 | Restoration ContractorMasonry 15 · Materials Science 5 | Heritage Monument RestorerMasonry 18 · Visual Composition 8 |
| General Construction | Construction LaborerWorkshop Safety 2 | TradespersonBlueprint Reading 5 · Hand Tools 7 | Site ForemanTeam Leadership 7 · Framing 6 | Project ManagerPeople Management 8 · Blueprint Reading 10 | Infrastructure TycoonPeople Management 13 · Corporate Finance 8 |
| Heavy Equipment Operation | Ground SpotterWorkshop Safety 4 | Equipment OperatorHeavy Equipment 7 | Crane OperatorHeavy Equipment 11 | Site Preparation LeadHeavy Equipment 14 · Team Leadership 6 | Demolition Firm OwnerDemolitions 10 · People Management 7 |
| Landscaping & Design | GroundskeeperPhysical Conditioning 2 | Landscape DesignerVisual Composition 6 · Biology Foundations 4 | Landscape ArchitectVisual Composition 10 · Blueprint Reading 7 | Design Firm OwnerIndustrial Design 8 · Accounting Principles 4 | Urban Park DesignerIndustrial Design 13 · Local Politics 6 |
| Security Systems | Install AssistantElectrical Fundamentals 3 | Systems InstallerElectrical Fundamentals 7 · Networking 3 | Security SpecializtResidential Wiring 8 · Networking 7 | Installation Company OwnerDefensive Security 6 · Accounting Principles 4 | Government Security ContractorDefensive Security 12 · Close Protection 7 |
| Industry | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Software Development | Code ApprenticeComputer Science 3 | Junior DeveloperWeb Development 6 | Senior EngineerSoftware Engineering 9 | Principal ArchitectCloud Architecture 9 · Team Leadership 6 | Founding CTOCloud Architecture 14 · Executive Leadership 6 |
| Data Science | Data Entry ClerkNumeracy 3 | Data AnalystStatistics 7 | Senior Data ScientistMachine Learning 8 · Data Engineering 5 | Chief Data OfficerMachine Learning 12 · People Management 7 | Predictive Analytics MogulMachine Learning 16 · Econometrics 11 |
| Cybersecurity | SOC AnalystNetworking 5 | Penetration TesterDefensive Security 7 | Security DirectorDefensive Security 11 · Cryptography 7 | Chief Information Security OfficerDefensive Security 15 · People Management 7 | National Cyber Defense AdvisorDefensive Security 18 · National Politics 5 |
| AI & Machine Learning | Research AssistantStatistics 6 · Computer Science 6 | ML EngineerMachine Learning 8 | Senior AI ScientistMachine Learning 13 · Algorithms 11 | AI Lab DirectorMachine Learning 16 · People Management 7 | AGI PioneerMachine Learning 19 · Quantum Theory 8 |
| Cloud & Infrastructure | Help DeskNetworking 2 | Systems AdministratorSystems Administration 7 | Cloud ArchitectCloud Architecture 8 | VP of InfrastructureCloud Architecture 12 · People Management 6 | Cloud Empire OwnerCloud Architecture 17 · Corporate Finance 8 |
| Database Engineering | DBA AssistantComputer Science 4 | Database AdministratorDatabase Administration 7 | Senior DBADatabase Administration 11 | Data Platform ArchitectData Engineering 10 · Cloud Architecture 6 | Information Infrastructure ControllerData Engineering 15 · Executive Leadership 4 |
| Web & Product | Template CustomizerWeb Development 2 | Web DesignerWeb Development 6 · Visual Composition 4 | Full-Stack DeveloperSoftware Engineering 8 | Digital Agency OwnerSoftware Engineering 11 · Sales Technique 7 | E-Commerce Empire BuilderSoftware Engineering 14 · Brand Strategy 9 |
| Game Development | QA TesterComputer Science 2 | Game DesignerVisual Composition 6 · Web Development 4 | Lead DeveloperSoftware Engineering 10 | Studio HeadSoftware Engineering 13 · People Management 8 | Gaming Empire TycoonBrand Strategy 12 · Executive Leadership 6 |
| Industry | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual Art | Studio AssistantVisual Composition 2 | Working ArtistVisual Composition 7 | Gallery RepresentedVisual Composition 12 · Professional Networking 6 | Master ArtistVisual Composition 16 · High Society Etiquette 6 | Art World IconVisual Composition 19 · Brand Strategy 8 |
| Music | Session MusicianAudio Engineering 3 | Touring MusicianAudio Engineering 7 · Physical Conditioning 4 | Recording ArtistAudio Engineering 11 · Brand Strategy 4 | ProducerAudio Engineering 15 · Negotiation 7 | Label OwnerAudio Engineering 17 · Corporate Negotiation 7 |
| Film & Video | Production AssistantPhysical Conditioning 2 | Camera OperatorPhotography 7 | DirectorPhotography 12 · Team Leadership 7 | Award-Winning FilmmakerPhotography 16 · Persuasion 8 | Studio ExecutiveExecutive Leadership 8 · Corporate Negotiation 9 |
| Photography | Photo AssistantPhotography 2 | Freelance PhotographerPhotography 7 | Commercial PhotographerPhotography 11 · Sales Technique 5 | Studio OwnerPhotography 14 · Accounting Principles 5 | Photographer to the ElitePhotography 17 · High Society Etiquette 9 |
| Fashion Design | Pattern AssistantVisual Composition 3 | Fashion DesignerIndustrial Design 6 | Senior DesignerIndustrial Design 10 | Fashion House OwnerIndustrial Design 13 · Brand Strategy 8 | Global Fashion EmpireBrand Strategy 14 · Supply Chain Management 9 |
| Architecture | DraftspersonBlueprint Reading 5 | Architectural DesignerBlueprint Reading 9 · Visual Composition 7 | Licensed ArchitectIndustrial Design 10 · Classical Mechanics 6 | Principal ArchitectIndustrial Design 14 · People Management 6 | Skyline ArchitectIndustrial Design 18 · Corporate Negotiation 8 |
| Writing & Publishing | GhostwriterCritical Reading 5 | Published AuthorCritical Reading 10 · Journalism 4 | Bestselling AuthorCritical Reading 14 · Brand Strategy 5 | Publishing House OwnerCritical Reading 17 · Corporate Finance 6 | Cultural InstitutionCritical Reading 19 · Mass Psychology 9 |
| Interior Design | Design AssistantVisual Composition 3 | Interior DesignerVisual Composition 8 | Senior DesignerIndustrial Design 8 · Finish Carpentry 5 | Design Firm OwnerIndustrial Design 12 · Sales Technique 7 | Luxury Interiors EmpireIndustrial Design 16 · High Society Etiquette 10 |
| Industry | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trucking | Yard HostlerCommercial Driving 2 | CDL DriverCommercial Driving 7 | DispatcherLogistics Planning 8 | Fleet ManagerLogistics Planning 12 · People Management 5 | Intermodal DirectorSupply Chain Management 12 · Corporate Negotiation 6 |
| Delivery & Courier | Delivery Rider | CourierDefensive Driving 5 | Route ManagerLogistics Planning 7 | Distribution ManagerLogistics Planning 11 · Team Leadership 6 | National Network OwnerSupply Chain Management 11 · Corporate Finance 6 |
| Warehousing | Picker/Packer | Inventory ControllerWarehouse Operations 6 | Operations SupervisorWarehouse Operations 10 · Team Leadership 5 | Distribution Center ManagerSupply Chain Management 8 · People Management 6 | Global Supply Chain TycoonSupply Chain Management 15 · Executive Leadership 5 |
| Maritime & Shipping | DeckhandSeamanship 2 | Boat CaptainSeamanship 8 | Ship MasterMarine Navigation 10 | Shipping Company OwnerMarine Navigation 13 · Supply Chain Management 8 | Global Shipping MagnateSupply Chain Management 16 · Corporate Negotiation 10 |
| Aviation | Ground CrewWorkshop Safety 3 | Flight InstructorPrivate Pilot 8 | Commercial PilotCommercial Pilot 8 | Airline CaptainCommercial Pilot 14 · Team Leadership 5 | Airline Chief ExecutiveCommercial Pilot 16 · Executive Leadership 8 |
| Rail | Rail WorkerWorkshop Safety 3 | ConductorLogistics Planning 6 | Train EngineerHeavy Equipment 9 | Rail Operations ManagerLogistics Planning 12 · People Management 6 | Rail Empire TycoonSupply Chain Management 14 · Local Politics 8 |
| Industry | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nursing | Care AssistantFirst Aid 3 | Licensed NurseHuman Anatomy 6 · First Aid 6 | Registered NurseClinical Practice 7 | Nurse PractitionerClinical Practice 12 · Pharmacology 7 | Director of NursingClinical Practice 15 · People Management 8 |
| Medicine | Medical StudentHuman Anatomy 6 · Biology Foundations 8 | Resident PhysicianClinical Practice 8 | Attending PhysicianClinical Practice 14 · Pharmacology 9 | SurgeonSurgery 10 | Chief of SurgerySurgery 16 · People Management 8 |
| Pharmacy | Pharmacy TechnicianGeneral Chemistry 4 | Dispensing PharmacistPharmacology 6 | Clinical PharmacistPharmacology 11 | Pharmacy OwnerPharmacology 14 · Accounting Principles 6 | Pharmaceutical ExecutivePharmacology 17 · Corporate Negotiation 8 |
| Mental Health | Support WorkerActive Listening 4 | CounsellorCognitive Psychology 7 · Active Listening 8 | Clinical PsychologistCognitive Psychology 12 · Clinical Practice 5 | Practice DirectorCognitive Psychology 15 · People Management 6 | Behavioral Science AuthorityMass Psychology 12 · Behavioral Economics 10 |
| Emergency Services | EMTFirst Aid 5 · Physical Conditioning 4 | ParamedicTrauma Medicine 6 | Critical Care ParamedicTrauma Medicine 11 · Clinical Practice 5 | Station CommanderTrauma Medicine 14 · Team Leadership 8 | Regional Services DirectorPeople Management 12 · Local Politics 6 |
| Industry | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Law Enforcement | CadetPhysical Conditioning 5 · Legal Foundations 3 | Patrol OfficerSituational Awareness 7 · Pistol Marksmanship 4 | DetectiveResearch Methods 8 · Criminal Law 6 | CaptainCriminal Law 11 · People Management 7 | CommissionerCriminal Law 15 · Local Politics 9 |
| Bounty Hunting | Skip TracerSituational Awareness 4 · Research Methods 3 | Recovery AgentPhysical Conditioning 6 · Criminal Law 4 | Bounty HunterPistol Marksmanship 6 · Situational Awareness 9 | ManhunterCriminal Law 10 · Pistol Marksmanship 10 | LegendSituational Awareness 15 · Pistol Marksmanship 14 |
| Politics | Campaign VolunteerSmall Talk 4 | City CouncillorLocal Politics 7 | State RepresentativeCampaign Management 8 · Public Speaking 9 | SenatorNational Politics 8 · Diplomacy 8 | Head of GovernmentNational Politics 15 · Mass Psychology 10 |
| Education | Teaching AssistantCritical Reading 5 | TeacherCritical Reading 9 · Public Speaking 5 | Department HeadCritical Reading 12 · Team Leadership 6 | PrincipalPeople Management 10 · Local Politics 5 | University ChancellorResearch Methods 15 · Executive Leadership 6 |
| Civil Service | ClerkCritical Reading 4 | Case OfficerLegal Foundations 6 | Program ManagerLegal Foundations 10 · People Management 5 | Department HeadPeople Management 10 · Local Politics 6 | Permanent SecretaryNational Politics 9 · Executive Leadership 6 |
| Military | RecruitPhysical Conditioning 5 | SpecializtRifle Marksmanship 6 · Tactical Movement 4 | SergeantSquad Tactics 7 | Field OfficerSquad Tactics 12 · Team Leadership 8 | Theatre CommanderMilitary Strategy 12 · People Management 9 |
| Industry | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Culinary Arts | Kitchen Porter | Line CookLine Cooking 6 | Sous ChefSauce & Technique 7 | Executive ChefSauce & Technique 12 · Team Leadership 7 | Michelin-Starred OwnerSauce & Technique 17 · Brand Strategy 7 |
| Baking & Pastry | Bakery AssistantCulinary Basics 2 | BakerPastry & Baking 6 | Master BakerPastry & Baking 11 | Bakery OwnerPastry & Baking 14 · Accounting Principles 5 | Artisan Food EmpirePastry & Baking 17 · Supply Chain Management 8 |
| Hotel & Resort | Front Desk AgentSmall Talk 4 | Guest Relations ManagerAccount Management 5 | Operations ManagerPeople Management 7 · Accounting Principles 5 | General ManagerPeople Management 11 · High Society Etiquette 6 | Resort Group OwnerCorporate Finance 11 · High Society Etiquette 11 |
| Events & Nightlife | Bar StaffSmall Talk 3 | Event CoordinatorProfessional Networking 6 | Venue ManagerProfessional Networking 10 · People Management 5 | Club OwnerProfessional Networking 13 · Accounting Principles 6 | Nightlife EmpireProfessional Networking 16 · Brand Strategy 8 |
| Industry | Tier 1 | Tier 2 | Tier 3 | Tier 4 | Tier 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Physics Research | Lab TechnicianPhysics Fundamentals 4 | Research AssociateClassical Mechanics 7 | Principal InvestigatorThermodynamics 10 · Research Methods 8 | Department ChairQuantum Theory 8 · People Management 6 | LaureateQuantum Theory 15 · Research Methods 14 |
| Chemical Research | Lab AssistantGeneral Chemistry 4 | Analytical ChemistOrganic Chemistry 6 | Senior Research ChemistOrganic Chemistry 11 · Materials Science 7 | R&D DirectorMaterials Science 12 · People Management 6 | Chief Scientific OfficerPharmacology 14 · Executive Leadership 5 |
| Biotechnology | Lab TechBiology Foundations 5 | Research ScientistGenetics 7 | Senior ScientistGenetics 12 · Pharmacology 6 | Head of ResearchGenetics 15 · People Management 6 | Biotech FounderGenetics 18 · Corporate Finance 10 |
| Economic Analysis | Research AssistantMicroeconomics 5 | EconomistMacroeconomics 8 | Senior EconomistEconometrics 9 | Chief EconomistEconometrics 13 · Game Theory 7 | Institutional AuthorityEconometrics 17 · Game Theory 12 |
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