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rbx-genre-tycoon

The loop

Earn (droppers spawn value parts every 1–2s; conveyor carries them to the collector) → step on button (cost check + deduct, server-side Touched) → building appears on the plot (the genre's core reward: visible geometry, not a number) → income rises → bigger buttons → plot section unlocks → rebirth when button costs flatten.

First button within 30 seconds of claiming a plot. Time-to-next-button: 15–45s for the first ten buttons, stretching to 3–6 min late-game, never past 10 min without a rebirth option on screen. The physical plot is the progress bar — a returning player must see at a glance what grew since yesterday, and neighbors must see it too (adjacent plots are the genre's status display, rbx-psych-social).

The numbers

• Button cost curve: per-tier cost = base * 4^(tier-1) (100 → 500 → 2.5k → 12.5k →

62.5k…); inside a tier, buttons step ×1.5–2.5. Tiers of 6–10 buttons each; 40–80 buttons total at launch.

• Income: each tier's dropper earns 4–6× the previous (5/drop → 25 → 150 → 1k); drop

interval tightens 2.0s → 1.5s → 1.0s. Time-to-earn per tier: tier 1 inside 10 min, tier 2 by 45 min, tier 3 at 1–3h, tier 4 at 3–8h across sessions.

• Part budget: hard cap 50 live dropper parts per plot, 15s Debris lifetime, plain Parts

only (never unions/meshes for drops). 8 plots × 3 droppers at 1s intervals is 24 parts/second server-wide without the cap — the genre's classic perf death.

• Rebirth: unlocks at total earnings ≈ 500k (just past tier 3); +25% permanent income

per rebirth, requirement ×3 each time. Resets buildings + cash; never gamepasses, cosmetics, or rebirth count. First rebirth should land in session 2–3, not session 1.

• Plots: count ≥ MaxPlayers, spaced ~100 studs, StreamingEnabled on so a client loads

its own plot plus neighbors, not all eight (rbx-platform-streaming).

• Passive income buildings: 10–20% of total income at most — the dropper spectacle is

the game; a tycoon that runs itself is rbx-genre-idle wearing a costume.

Build order

1. rbx-wf-newgame shell: one plot greyboxed with the full button chain stubbed

(rbx-build-greybox); claim pad + owner billboard first — ownership is the hook.

1. Dropper → conveyor → collector spine with the part cap and Debris lifetime from day one;

all currency math server-side, buttons validated on server Touched (rbx-net-remotes, rbx-security-anticheat — client Touched is not authority).

1. Button chain with prerequisite reveal (buy A, pad B fades in) — the fade-in IS the

tutorial; juice every purchase: pad sink, building pop-in scale tween, cash sound (rbx-juice-celebrations, rbx-anim-tween, rbx-audio-sfx).

1. Data: cash, owned buildings, rebirths (rbx-data-schema, rbx-data-profilestore);

restore rebuilds the plot on rejoin — test this before adding tier 2.

1. Tiers 2–4 buildings (rbx-build-props for dropper/machine models — silhouettes must

change per tier, not just colors).

1. Rebirth (rbx-economy-rebirth): stop dropper threads, clear plot, apply multiplier —

thread leaks here are the genre's classic memory bug (rbx-perf-memory).

1. Shop + monetization map (rbx-ui-shop, rbx-mtx-receipts).
2. Analytics on button/tier/rebirth timing (rbx-analytics-events) — the funnel tells you

exactly which button stalls players — then the publish gauntlet.

Monetization map

Dashboard creation → rbx-mtx-gamepasses / rbx-mtx-devproducts handoffs; ids land in CONFIG as = 0 -- TODO.

Critical sheet, pre-filled

(Diff against critical-thinking-sheet.md.)

1. Monetizable — yes: 2x cash + auto-collect + cash packs day one; skip-button at walls.
2. Easy to understand — the genre's superpower: stand on pad, thing appears. Zero reading.
3. Addictive loop — yes if button pacing holds; the variable reward is weak (fixed costs),

so borrow variance: rare golden drops worth 10–50× at 1/100 (rbx-psych-hooks).

1. SFX-friendly — very: drop clink, collector ring, purchase thunk, tier fanfare.
2. Easy to create — the spine is days; the building models are the real cost. 40+ distinct

buildings is the actual estimate driver.

1. 2-Robux item — the tip item, or a single golden-drop trigger.
2. Green metrics — D1 strong (instant ownership), D7 from tiers + rebirth, D30 needs new

tiers/sections on a cadence (rbx-liveops-cadence). Plan two of three.

1. Audience — under-13 core; theme decides skew. U13 rails on all prompts (rbx-psych-u13).
2. Saturation — high but theme-forgiving: a strong theme ("prison", "brainrot factory") IS

the differentiation; the spine barely changes (rbx-marketing-thumbnails first).

1. Trend-based — theme-skinning a trend onto the spine is proven (rbx-genre-trend).
2. Launch spend — moderate; tycoons get more organic discovery than simulators but ads

still decide week one.

1. Would I play all day — only if the plot keeps visibly changing. If three buttons in a

row buy invisible upgrades, cut them or make them geometry.

Genre tells (why clones fail)

• Buttons that buy stat upgrades instead of visible buildings — the plot stops growing and

the loop dies; every purchase must add or change geometry.

• No part cap on droppers — the server chokes at 6+ players and mobile reviews say "laggy",

which in this genre means dead.

• Same dropper model recolored across all tiers — tier 3 must LOOK 25× richer than tier 1

or income gains don't register.

• Plot not restored on rejoin — the one bug players never forgive in a genre about

ownership; test restore before content.

• Dropper/passive threads not cancelled on leave or rebirth — income ghosts, currency

corruption, and a memory leak per player.

• Dead time over 10 minutes between buttons with no rebirth prompt — the exact wall where

the D1 curve cliffs; the funnel event on each button catches it pre-launch.