The city is the board
Corners are the whole game
Every district has marked spots scored by foot traffic. Better spots cost more, pay more, draw more customers and heat up faster. Select a dealer, click a spot, done. A rival enforcer standing on your corner unopposed for ten seconds takes it.
Mixing is a puzzle, not a menu
Ten additives, each with a handful of transformation rules. Sugar turns Calming into Euphoric and adds Munchies. Stack them and chains open up to the rare effects that pay ×1.5. The rules are the same on every server, so chart them, trade them, argue about them.
Your people have names, and vices
Hire from three named candidates. Everyone has two traits that change numbers and one vice that makes stories. Gamblers drift to the card room. Loose tongues name your stash in a bar. Pay short and it works, for a while. You will see the betrayal coming for three shifts before it lands. Whether you act is the game.
Roster · Fourth Suburbs crew
Take the district, then keep it
Hold more than half of a district's corners for twenty seconds and the streets turn your colour. Two posts open on its edges for enforcers. Prices go up fifteen percent. And the precinct takes bribes: three, six or twelve shifts with no patrols and no raids, for a price scaled to how good the corners are.
Heat · patrols above the first tick, raids above the second
Small talk with teeth
Customers ask for the effect they want. Dealers pitch the product they hold, by name and price. Matches pay a premium and the buyer hops. Mismatches walk away half the time. Busts come with a line from the cop. The city talks; the feed writes it down.
One shared city
Downtown core, suburbs, industrial edges and parks laid out from a seed, with traffic, delivery vans and police cruisers. Up to thirty-two crews on the same server. Your crew is saved on the server and reclaimed by name when you come back.