Roofcast · Market Map · Internal
Roofcast markets. 350 on the board.
Every market is a radius drawn from a city center and capped at 750,000 people. Circles run a mile or two across in the densest metros and out past a hundred miles on the plains, and no two ever touch. Cities too large to fit the cap carry more than one market, shown as a number in the circle.
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How markets work
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Every market is capped at 750,000 people, so the radius is set by density rather than by a fixed distance. A metro market can be two miles across and a plains market a hundred. Circles are grown until they meet the next one and stop, so no two contractors ever overlap.
- One contractor per market. Nothing overlaps.
- Big cities carry several. The number in a circle is how many markets that city holds, and each sells on its own.
- The circle is your protected radius. Population counts everyone closer to your center than to the next market, which reaches a little past the circle in open country.
- Search finds your town. Towns resolve to the market nearest them.
- Building counts are modelled, not surveyed. They scale with population off the rate card above.
- RoofCast is set by building count, not by population or by how much land the circle covers.
Every one of the 2,540 continental US incorporated cities above 15,000 people is assigned to its nearest market center. Neighborhoods and census districts are excluded so that no population is counted twice. Centers are added until no market holds more than 750,000 people, then merged back wherever a market can be absorbed without breaching the cap, which leaves 281 centers. Each center is then grown into a circle until it meets its nearest neighbour, which puts the radius between one and 120 miles depending on density and leaves no overlap anywhere. Ground between circles is unassigned and available for a new market. Centers holding more than 750,000 people carry more than one market, shown as a number in the circle. Market population sums the assigned cities, so rural population between towns is not counted. Boundaries are drawn to the nearest center and are indicative rather than contractual. Shading shows population density. Alaska, Hawaii, and the US territories are not included.