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Monetisation

Free-To-Play

The game is designed to work as a free-to-play with the option to pay to access upgrades in advance. These upgrades can all be accessed by playing the game, the only thing the player is buying in real currency is a head start on the upgrades.

Proxy Currencies

Reputation Rating

Reputation Rating is one of the two currency systems in game. It cannot be bought through micro-transactions and is earnt solely through play. This ensures that it is not and cannot be a pay to win game. Each level has the potential for the Player to earn 3 Stars. These stars are used to unlock the different zones. Each zone has the potential to earn 15 stars. The Reputation Rating Stars needed to unlock each level are listed below:

Zone 1: Outer Suburbs – First Zone, already unlocked
Zone 2: Retail Park – 3 stars / potential 6
Zone 3: Inner Suburbs - 6 stars / potential 9
Zone 4: The High Street - 9 stars / potential 12
Zone 5: High Rise District - 12 stars / potential 15
Zone 6: Central Business District - 15 stars / potential 18

Money

Money is earnt by cleaning windows, characters will tip the player for cleaning their windows and these will appear outside the windows and be added to a counter automatically. This Money can be used to buy the Power-Ups listed above. Characters will typically drop either £5 or £10 (or $s) with more being dropped as the game progresses. With tier 1 upgrades will be around £100 and tier 2 for £300. It can be bought however as micro-transactions, but by the end of the game the Player should have been easily able to unlock them all without micro-transactions. To buy all tier 1 upgrades it will cost £400 in game £s, and to buy all tier 2 it will be an extra £1200 in game £s, in total costing £1800 in game £s.

Game Store

Can purchase ‘Money’ to buy upgrades. Can be bought in 4 packs.