Reaching 100% achievements should take about two weeks of IRL time and about 10-20h active ingame time. (Someone please confirm this or adjust it to recent conditions as I completed them a long time ago pre game adjustment for season 2).

Switching map =
You keep your collected gold & income rate as you go over to next area.
And you keep your heat and total heat.
And you keep all skill levels of your "maffiosos" (workers)

Same type
1x1 building needs 2 squares apart for no penalty
2x1 building needs 2 squares apart for no penalty
2x2 building needs 3 squares apart for no penalty
2x4 building needs 4 squares apart for no penalty
4x4 building needs 5 squares apart for no penalty

Important knowledge; Squares apart are only counted up/down/sideways; NOT diagonally.
=2 corners touching = 1 square apart....

All achivements are (basicly) unmissable. Just play the game and you will get them.

Begin with focusing on getting quick cash after unlocking everything step by step.

You can hardly do anything "wrong" (read; ineffective)

Use
as often as possible to gain quick cash as the build time is so short compared to all the other.

make sure to have enough

"Total heat"

using


Use the rest of "free" spaces as you see fit, just keep an eye on Total heat costs.


And make sure to have fun & totally ignore that there is a leaderboard in the game.....

Under

Sidenote;
A few hours of playtime will have you surprisingly high up on the leaderboard.


Skipable tip; but very useful
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And and lastly there is a trick when you are about to finish the first area/map that everyone should know.
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If you have unlocked all slots in the "work" "GUILD section.
You can access something called "Foreign Cooperations"

That for +50% Heat (that is added to your "Heat")
Gives you 1 skill point per crew memeber.

(THATS ALOT)

The trick is that you save up some gold. say a million or so.

and then

"BURN" everything you have built, down....

Except your
Thus having 0 in heat....

And 0 + 50% more heat.....= 0 heat....= You can "Skim" the game of free skill points for your crew.... for as long you want.

(This option was not available for me when I passed that part of the game)

But it is there now.

And get like 3-5 extra skill points on the crew members you use the most.
This will aid you tons later in the game. Do not bother with more as it is not needed.

Or you can just bypass this tip as it is not needed but its very very useful for clearing certain tasks later in the game.

This is where you learn to mine to unlock locked land and "harvest" / "use" water tiles.

This is where the game really begins to shine.

Where you have completly free reins right from the start of the map.

Map selection tip;
When choosing; pick maps that have as much water or mining in the corners.
(those) are the most expensive areas on maps to unlock with "gold".

Also keep an eye out for how many "research" unlockable areas there are on a map; it differs alot.
Some only have only 2 while others have as many as 13: (that I have been able to spot atleast.)

The game score (on the leaderboard)
is logarithmic.

= The more "gold" you earn (while online) the less points for the score you are awarded for the same amount of income.

= You earn a TON of easy points in start but less and less down the line.

NOTE!
This makes it look like you are not getting any score when you are offline.
(you arent getting points when off line)

BUT!

As it is counted per gold you earn while online thru "non boost means"....

The offline time (not getting any points) are only an illusion as the more you build your areas the more gold you earn while online.

AND!
That in practice means being offline does not affect your score (seen over time) as long one keep building.

There will be an gold income increase with each new area that nullifies the offline non score.

(As you come come closer to end of each area your score will go down in speed.)

And you will have a burst score increase as you start a new area.

13 hours to clear an entire map. (have done a few around 15 hours) but if I do not spend all day infront of computer it takes a couple of days.

This game suits my playstyle so perfectly.

Plenty of math.
X times Y times Z + unknown variables to take into account and figure out.

This game have so much more then just the obvious to enjoy.

Well worth 3000 hours.