Area 9

IMPORTANT WARNING

There is a problem with area 9 which can really ruin the game for you!

The problem is that the increase in pioneer requirements per town (about 500x the starting pioneers) leads to you easily breaking the number system of the game because the data type used for the money cannot handle numbers big enough to be able to finish the area without tricks. This leads to an error that can only be fixed by resetting your entire progress.

You can circumvent this by using the following trick:

Click the reset button some time before reaching your target population. Once you hit the target population while having the reset window open, you can still reset.

After you reset, you spend as many pioneers as you can on upgrades, leaving you with less pioneers than you started the town with, if done correctly.

Afterwards, you can directly go west to the next town without playing the town again.

The next town's pioneers requirement is based on the number you ended the last town with when going west, so you don't need to worry about the game becoming harder by doing this workaround.

You should start with this trick right from the beginning and not just in the end because it can be hard reducing your pioneers if the upgrades' costs do not fit your pioneers.

A good formula to calculate the number of pioneers you should end each town with is pioneers=135^town number.

179.77 dt is the maximum the data type used for money in the game can handle.

If you exceed this number, the game breaks and only shows you an error!

The maximum of pioneers you should not exceed is about 1 bn.

This video shows the full list of unlocks and upgrades for this Area with the maximum possible population (anything higher is impossible due to the 179.77 dt money limit), and the end of the video shows the highest unlocks for each business.

Area 9 has similar pioneer upgrades to area 8, with the exception being that area 9 has significantly more all profit ones than area 8 does. The cash upgrades are somewhat similar, but not super similar to area 8's. After the beginning, business unlocks very rarely give a bonus better than x2 profit to that business or x1.5 all profits.

This article contains a complete list of all business upgrade bonuses as well as milestones for upgrading all businesses of a town to a certain level.

This list is up-to-date for the current version of the game (v1.15.5) and was written by Ampelphase. Videos for each town