why is this so hard?!?

[Ambyykitty]

no tutorial! the one it has tells you nothing and after making the first house and filling the shop you made with an worker its impossible to play or do more??? i cant do anything i cant make money or figure out anything please make tutorial easier to understand im so overwhelmed i spent my check on this and im SO DISAPPOINTED!!

[hummeline]

Hi there! So sorry to hear you're hitting a wall with this! We designed the tutorial to be somewhat open-ended, because we found that in playtests folks wanted to just get building. But we don't want it to cause frustration at all! Here's some quick bullets as overview, let me know if that's helpful or if there's anything specific I can help with:

To make money:
- Stock the shop that Baldo works at. This will be the way to make money since you can gather the materials from rocks & lumber around town.
- If you want to assign Baldo to do something else, you can also craft the items yourself, if you go in and face the machine
- You will be running around a bit while you make your first amount of cash. Use the truck to put in a lot of materials which can help make things easier

Once you have a little money:
- Add more decor items around. This makes tourists happy and that will help increase your EGO, which is what allows you to upgrade your town
- open up a second shop. The bookstore can use paper reams, which are an alternate recipe for the table saw in the forest

Overall:
- If tourists come in with a + over their head, invite them to join your town. They'll need a house, but once you build that (or an apartment) you can assign them to work. Once they start to work, you can choose tasks you don't want to do and put them there. Mines, Forest, Farm, Shops, all kinds of options.
- Boss will call with challenges, which will help you unlock more things. They start pretty easy and then get more complicated.
- Our wiki can be helpful if you're wondering about specific shops or items: https://gogotown.wiki.gg/

[Puchbol]

If they made the beginning any easier, the 'game' would be on Netflix. There's no timer, no $ drain (rent, wages, etc.), no 'builds' to minmax. If anything, in the current build, the beginning is the only time you actually have to do anything - right now, by the time you get to mid- to late-mid-game, everything runs itself, and the PC is just tweaking Products and looking for new vehicles/Townies.