Your phone and friends
The phone in your pocket
Out in the city you carry a phone. Your tower, your jobs, your car, your friends, the chat and the map are all on it, without leaving the street.
- Press V
- On a computer
- Wherever you walk or drive
Where it shows
When you're in the world
The phone comes out wherever you're moving a character or a vehicle in 3D, on a screen of at least 1024 × 640.
| Question | The phone | No phone |
|---|---|---|
| The street: on foot, driving, flying | ✓Yes | |
| Inside the Exchange's hall, the 3D casino and club | ✓Yes | |
| At the wheel on the Speedway | ✓Yes | |
| The map, the tower pages, the 2D casino, the Cashier | ✕The top bar has everything | |
| Phones and small windows | ✕The top bar, and Jobs as a page |
Put away, the phone waits as a tab in the top bar; V or the tab brings it back. The button under the screen goes back to the home screen. Some places tuck the phone away on their own when their own controls need the corner.
While you type on the phone, your keys stay on the phone: you won't walk off.
The phone's keys
- Up, or put awayV
- The newest notificationAlt + T
- Straight to your garageG
Every app
What's on it
In home-screen order, then the four on the dock that are always one tap away. A tag says where a part of the game stands today.
- JobsToday's board: the dailies, a tower job, the weekly and gigs. Pick one and the GPS shows the way; claim your XP and Hustle here, and see today's wages so far and last night's.
- My towerYour tower from anywhere: lit or dark, what it earns now, what is waiting, and Collect.
- Stonk ExchangeHappening now first: the IPOs taking requests and the city votes taking ballots, with the time left. Then every company's share price and its day, a chart, the Stonk Index and your shares. Trades happen at the terminal or on the floor.
- CashierGet chips, cash out to $TOWER (and cancel a cash-out that is still waiting), and your chips and Bonus chips.
- Stonk CasinoWho is on the floor, the live tables' rooms, the machines and the club, behind the casino's own door.
- Stonk SpeedwayToday's best laps and drifts, your bests, tournaments to join, and one press to the track.
- Street racesStreet races open now, your own, setting one up, the lobby and the results.
- Cops & RobbersCops & Robbers: find a match, or set one up.
- Stonk RinkStonk Rink: the way there, the games on the ice, lobbies and invites.
- GarageYour cars, your free starter car among them. Get one out and it's parked beside you; put it away again. The showroom is a tap away.
- FriendsRequests, your friends and where they are (Message, Find, Join), who is online now, adding by wallet or @handle, and Bring someone in: your invite link.
- City RewardsCity Rewards: the day's prizes and what wins them, how long is left, the event on now, and the way to every board.
- City newsTwo tabs. For you: yield ready, dividends paid, races, friends, IPOs. The city: mega wins, the towers' feed and the city wire (price moves, dividends, IPOs and votes, big races and chases, contracts, paydays, records).
- ProfileYour name, your X, your wallet, your character (Edit character), and whether you play or watch. Sign in and out here.
- Bull OutfittersYour character first (Edit character), then your City Rank: the XP to the next rank, what's next, the whole ladder, the title you show and the aura. Then Bull Outfitters anywhere: what you wear, this week's drops, the earned items, the shop.
- Dev LineText the developers: a bug, an idea or anything else. Where you are and your device come along by themselves, and each message shows where the devs have got to with it (seen, a good find, fixed).
- Stonk AirStonk Air: the aircraft, to buy or to rent by the pass.
- BurnerThe underworld's phone: go dark, the runs (for Rep and XP), the hunt, your Rep and Most Wanted, and the fixer's jobs, which pay chips.
- MapDockEvery landmark, your tower and your friends'. Guide me sets the GPS; on the map, Walk there drops you at the door.
- MessagesDockYour messages and the city's chat: the same conversations as the panel on screen.
- CameraDockPhoto mode, and a picture of the street with whoever is in it.
- SettingsDockGraphics, sound, the phone, who you muted or blocked, help, and every key.
Tell your phone…
Just say what you want
The field at the top of the home screen. Type a few words and the phone does it: the right app on the right screen, the GPS to a place, your car or a friend found.
- take me to the casinoGuiding you to the casinoUndoThe GPS route is set.
- where's my carGuiding you to your carUndoOr, if it's put away, the Garage opens.
- any races on?Opened RacesUndo
- find adaFinding AdaUndoThe tracker goes on your friend.
- which server am I onShowing the server listUndo
- cash outOpened the Cashier · Cash outUndoYou confirm it there yourself.
- muteMuted the gameUndo
01Sure of it
It does it at once and says so in a line at the bottom, with Undo.02Not quite sure
It offers the two or three things it thinks you meant, as buttons.03No idea
It says nothing matches, and suggests a few things to try.
Notifications
News lands on the phone
What happens while you're busy elsewhere (a dividend paid, an IPO or a city vote opening, a race opening, a job done, a big win across the city) goes to its app with a badge.
- With the phone up, news shows on its screen; with it away, as a card on the side. At most three cards at once, newest on top.
- Alt + T jumps to the newest card; Esc closes it.
- The results of your own presses (a collect, a trade) and any errors stay where you're looking, never in the inbox.
- Chips a friend sends you are always a card, with who and how much, whether the phone is up or away; ChipSend keeps a badge until you open it.
- News keeps the lot: what happened to you, and what is happening in the city.
Settings
Make it yours
| Question | What's there |
|---|---|
| Graphics | Auto, Low or High: the same quality switch the whole game uses, with what it is running on now. Under it, Copy graphics info: a short block about your graphics chip, screen and browser (nothing about you or your wallet) to paste to the team when the city runs badly |
| Sound | Master, music, effects and ambience, and one Mute |
| Phone | Keep it up, and clear your notifications |
| Muted and blocked | Everyone you muted or blocked, from any chat, with Undo |
| Help | How to play, and this guide |
| Keys | The keys for every place in the city |