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New Game HQ Selection
After clicking continue from the Main Menu, the game presents you with a world map. This is the Head Quarters (HQ) selection phase of starting a new game.
Your Head Quarters is the base of your company, and it will aid you in your growth or present many different challenges. See Selecting Good Locations for tips on selecting an HQ.
The World
There are two types of maps in GearCity: city-based and territory-based.
They both work effectively the same, except how you interact with them is slightly different.
With a city-based map, the game represents the world with many individual cities. And those cities appear as dots on the map. Clicking a dot will open the City Information window.
On territory-based maps, we break down the world into territories. Clicking a territory will open its Information window.
Map Data Menu
At the bottom left, you'll find the Map Data Menu. This system uses the world map to give you data about every city at once. Clicking any one of these buttons will change the colors of the cities or territories. The game also supplies a legend on the bottom right-hand side explaining what each color value means.
See *LINK* for information on the map data choices.
Map Data Legend
The Map Legend appears any time you selected a Map Data point other than Normal. The Legend is here to let you know what the color values on the map mean.
The header of the Legend (#1) lets you know what data you have selected. The colors of the cities or territories are under the header (#2). And the color's values, represented as a single value or range of values, are next to the colors.