<title>City Information Help</title>

<h1><strong>City Information</strong></h1>

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<strong>City Information</strong> shows statistics about a selected urban area (village, town or city) and can be used to change the name of the urban area.
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Each urban area has its own Town Hall around which it grows. Transportation of passengers and mail helps growth, which involves: roads built and taken over by the <a href="players.txt">public service player</a>; new city buildings and <a href="industry_info.txt">industries</a> appear; and city limits extend.
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Click on a Town Hall in game-view with the <a href="inspection_tool.txt">Inspection Tool</a> or an urban area listed in <a href="citylist_filter.txt">City List</a> to open <strong>?City Information</strong>, which contains: a name-box; statistics; two mini-maps; and a graph for the urban area.
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<em>name:</em> assigned name of urban area appears in a name-box at top of <strong>?City Information</strong>. <br>
Names of urban areas are used in the default names of Stops.<br>
To change name: click on name-box and type new name.<br>
{Tips: Use <a href="keys.txt">[!]</a> to toggle view of name of urban area, above a Town Hall, in game-view. See readme_citylist.txt (in ...simutrans/text/) for help on name generation of urban areas}.
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Under the name-box statistics are provided on urban area:<br>
<em>City size:</em> is number of citizens (population of urban area). The recent increase in population is shown in brackets.<br>
<em>buildings:</em> number of buildings in urban area.<br>
<em>map co-ordinates:</em> indicate boundary of city limits (changes as urban area grows).
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Counters increase with growth of urban area and decrease with construction of new city buildings:<br>
<em>unemployed:</em> counter determines which type of city building (residential/commerical/industrial) may be constructed.<br>
<em>homeless:</em> counter determines which type of city building (residential/commerical/industrial) may be constructed.
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<em>mini-maps</em> of the game world in <strong>?City Information</strong> indicate destinations of passengers and mail.<br>
Destinations are shown by coloured dots for the current game-calendar-month (right mini-map) and last game-calendar-month (left mini-map). Colour of destination dots indicate details about passengers and mail:<br>
- yellow: found a route and an uncrowded <a href="station.txt">Stop</a> to start journey (happy face shown in Stop Information).<br>
- orange: did not find a route to this destination.<br>
- red: found a route but Stop at start of journey was overcrowded (unhappy face in Stop Information).
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<em>Graph</em> shows statistics for the urban area. <br>
The y-axis is quantity, the x-axis is time.<br>
Click on graph index-tab to change scale of x-axis:<br>
<em>Years:</em> shows annual values for last ten game calendar years.<br>
<em>Months:</em> shows monthly values for last 12 game months
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Click on graph-option-button to see information on graph (button is indented when option selected).<br>
Colours of lines on graph correspond to colours of graph-option-buttons:<br>
<em>Citizens:</em> population.<br>
<em>Town growth:</em> change in population (dependent on city size and transport service provided for passengers and mail).<br>
<em>Travel?ed:</em> passengers and mail that entered transport network (shown as a <a href="station.txt">happy face</a> in Stop Information) <br>
<em>Passengers:</em> Total number of passengers and mail generated in urban area.
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{Tips: Settings related to urban areas can be changed in simuconf.tab and cityrules.tab}.
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