Tycoon Zone

How New Map Sections Open Up In Your City

As a business simulation game, Tycoon Online allows players to purchase property in order to build factories and other buildings.  Land is divided up into squares called zones, and each 20 x 20 square of zones is called a section.

If you already play TO you know that the most desirable zones are those adjacent to a road. This is because your building gets a 30% production bonus when it is connected to a road. That’s a significant bonus that most players don’t want to pass up.  But roadside zones are bought quickly, and there may be times when the only zones available are those that do not have a road connection.

As a city grows, new sections of the map will open up, making new zones, including roadside zones, available for purchase.  Each type of section has its own rules for when new sections open up:

• Offshore sections:  These have no roads and are only used by fishing fleets. All offshore zones are already active at the beginning of the round.
• Rural sections:  These contain countryside zones.  Three rural sections are active at the beginning of the round. A new section opens up whenever all existing rural sections drop below 50% available zones.
• City sections: These contain downtown zones. One city section is active at the beginning of the round. A new section opens up whenever all existing city sections drop below 30% available zones.

The key is to understand that all sections of a particular type must drop below the threshold, not just one. If you are in a larger city, new sections will open more often, but when they do, players will come in and buy up zones quickly.

Remember, your buildings do not have to be connected to a road.  If no appropriate roadside zones are available, you will need to decide whether it is better for you to wait for new sections to open up, or to go ahead and buy zones without a road connection.