Summer into AI Week 2
Engines of Independence
Every solution is an engine. Every engine creates pressure.
Build a town by choosing the engines underneath independence: power, freight, money, public works, press, policy, and civic trust. Coal can industrialize you. Banks can finance you. Newspapers can legitimize you. Saloons can fund a shadow economy. Taxes can build the public good or light the fuse. Every lever helps. Every lever bites.
First moves
Connect roads, add homes and jobs, build a power engine, then watch the Pressure Ledger before running a year.