Thread:Ampelphase/@comment-38846826-20201028161153/@comment-38846826-20201127054650

Ampelphase wrote: Jacob Gerhart wrote: Ampelphase wrote: Yeah, my list is as complete as it gets if you get as many pioneers per town as possible in every town of the area. Ok. I did see more unlocks than you listed in Areas 1 and 2, and significantly more in Area 3. Your list seems more complete in Area 4, as I didn't seem to pass any of your unlocks without using the business glitch, and I'm on Area 4 town 59 with 127.87 bh pioneers, and I need 2.43 bi for the next town. ... Then I will be missing the maximum progress on quite a few towns because things are getting SLOW at some point if you don't reset without using glitches. Even to the point where I would say it is nowhere balanced in area 7 for example. :-/

Do you actually lose the pioneers if you reset? Resetting before going west reduces the amount of pioneers and settlers that can be earned afterwards on that town by double the amount gained by the reset, and that can add up to a significant amount if done on many towns. Spending pioneers also affects it, but it's negligible. If you just use quick buy on every town and only spend more pioneers than that to buy big all profit multipliers, and only when the town would take too long to earn maximum population without them, you'll still likely finish the Area with at least 90% of maximum possible pioneers/settlers, provided that you didn't reset before going west on any town except the 60th town, and always went west at maximum population. I have created a new page on the wiki explaining how target, earned, and maximum population are calculated.