Beginner Guide

## Off to a good start

Each new game has randomised starting setup. Your HQ is behind a random legal business, there are random businesses and troublemakers nearby etc etc.

For your initial start you want a legal business that produces a good amount of some ingredient to make alcohol, and ideally someone nearby who will buy that alcohol from you.

For example, a fruit stand legal business might generate Grape Concentrate on a regular basis, it is fairly easy to build a Backroom Brick Wine Operation (Business) that will use the spare Grape Concentrate to make Brick Wine (Alcohol) which you can then sell to nearby businesses. If you get a legal business that produces nothing, or nothing useful, you might want to give up and generate a new game.

See the analysis on Alcohol (Resource) to choose which alcohol to pursue (Only Tier 1 Alcohols are available initially)

## Always be exploring

The map is huge, the more you explore the more opportunities you will find. At the start of the game you will have a bunch of spare time (waiting for alcohol to be produced, for example). Use this time wisely and explore your local surroundings.

## Growing your empire

### Crew Size

Your crew size is limited by your territory size and controlled buildings.

* Every 5 corners you control adds a new crew member
* Every controlled building adds a new crew member

#### Territory

You can only expand on one corner at a time (which is a really annoying artificial limit IMO). So you should constantly be taking over new corners. Keep an eye out for good locations for fronts. They are pretty easy to setup, you just need someone who owes you a favour and a bit of cash. An ideal location for a front should have 3 businesses (One to be the front, two to extort to start the cash flowing in) and be surrounded by 4 corners with businesses. It costs money for a front to expand into, and keep control of, a corner, so you really want enough extorted businesses nearby maintain and provide a surplus.

#### Controlled Buildings

Sometime opportunities come up to take control of a building. The buildings are always inside you territory, so the larger your territory the more potential buildings there might be. When someone owes you a favour the control building icon will show.

You can spend some cash and a favour to take control of the storage and backroom of a building. You don't control the legal business or get benefit from it (lack of benefit to be confirmed)

Controlling building where possible is a great way to expand your crew size and Backroom Businesses.

#### Passenger Vehicle Limit

Car capacity it based on crew size and available parking. Don't worry about car limit, you can always have enough for one per crew member. Only crews 'on the street' (i.e. not managing a business) need a car.

Junkyards, Scrapyards, Car Sales all tend to sell passenger cars.

#### Cargo Vehicle Limit

Limited by Skills and Parking. Overtime you will get skills like Truck Driving (Skill) which increases the number of Trucks you can own. As you start to produce more Alcohol the cargo size of cars will start to get annoying, you will start to setup delivery routes and will need trucks.