When does a growing city stop growing, and for how long?

Players enjoy watching their numbers climb. A long stretch where nothing moves is where they lose interest, but a collapse is something else and should not be mixed in. This entry shows how to find the longest flat stretch in a growth curve.

Why this works

Players feel growth in proportion to what they already have. Adding ten to fifty is a leap, ten to five thousand is nothing. Judging change as a share, and letting any big move break the run, finds stretches that feel stuck at any size.

When not to use it

Don't treat a flat stretch as a flaw when it is a planned breather, or in games where the number is not what the player cares about. Check what they do during it: if they are busy, the stretch is fine.

In the full entry

• What to build, step by step
• Starting values and the reason for each
• 3 common mistakes and the fix
• 22 lines of example code with 4 checks that pass
• How your AI shows you that it works

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Use the Spielerando entry "When does a growing city stop growing, and for how long?" (read_entry strat-growth-plateau-run) in my game. Build it step by step, and show me how you checked that it works.

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