Walls

A **wall** is a point where your progress in the game is significantly slower than usual. There are some walls in the game, so you should be aware of them, so you can handle them better.

The list below shows the walls that you may encounter, the Area that they are in, and the money range that progress is slower than usual at.

Area 1: No significant walls in this Area. The beginning is faster than later in the Area, but it never gets really slow.

Area 2: There is a wall in the beginning when Chinese laundry is the best business. You will eventually reach the point where other businesses are better, and progress will speed up. There is also another wall at bw money. After bx, progress will speed up again.

Area 3: progress is slow in the beginning, but it gets faster afterwards, until you hit a **progressive wall** that begins at ba pioneers. The further you get beyond that point, the slower progress will become. Make sure to keep your pioneers below 1 ba for the first 55 towns and you won't reach the point where it massively slows down.

Area 4: The middle of this Area is slow, and the slowest part is near the end of the wall. Be sure to check the pioneers upgrade section, as there may be all profit upgrades that quick buy didn't purchase, but are still worth it! After this point, you will be able to progress quickly for the rest of the Area if you didn't wait for maximum population for going west on most towns. If you did, the last few towns will be approximately as slow as the middle of the Area. It does NOT get worse and worse unlike Area 3.

Area 5: None!

Area 6: at cq money. Once you reach cr, progress speeds up again.

Area 7: overall noticeably slower than the previous Areas, but there are no parts where progress is much slower than the rest of the Area. (It does become super slow near the end, but it isn't possible to even come close to that point, due to the 8x limit on exceeding target population. Since this wall cannot be reached, I'm not counting it as one. This has been reported on the Steam forum a few times before the population limit was implemented, and it occurred due to there being only 1 cash upgrade after 23 dd, which is at 280 dq.) If you finish most of the towns at maximum population, your progress near the end of the Area will become faster and faster.

Area 8: There is a big wall at the beginning of this Area, but once you get your pioneers into the ad range, progress becomes faster, but not a ton faster.

Area 9: None! It gets faster the further you progress until it starts slowing down slightly near the end.

If you hit any of these walls, you should use the outlaw firing strategy. This is where you hire all outlaws except for the one for your most profitable business. (what it was before last reset or go west) Once you've built everything back up again, hire that outlaw, buy as many OCD levels as possible on that business, and then fire it. This is especially useful later in Area 8 (when progress is slow, but not super slow) and at the end of Area 3 if you hit that wall. You should be doing this after every reset and go west if you have enough pioneers for it to be worthwhile, but it's very helpful to get past these walls.