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Transport

Transport moves a resource balance from a source cell to a destination cell along a chain of waypoints. Resources themselves never move — only balances do.

Physics rules​

Every route must obey:

  • Hop distance — the relay reach of the two cells on a hop must overlap, not merely touch (one cell less than their combined reach). An ordinary cell relays only to an adjacent cell; a hub reaches farther.
  • Revealed waypoints — every cell on the route must be revealed.
  • Time delay — delivery scales with total distance (roughly a couple of seconds per cell; see the Reference). Position is interpolated live; resources arrive when the shipment completes.

Free vs paid​

  • Routing through your own cells is free and starts immediately.
  • Routing through a foreign player's hub is paid: a fee per unit per hub crossed, of which a fixed share is burned and the remainder pays the hub owner(s). The destination must still be your own revealed cell — foreign hubs are relays only.

Paid transports can be resumed if interrupted before their deadline. Always quote a route first — the quote returns validity, total distance, time, and exact fees before you commit.

Provisional Fee per unit, burn share, reach, and travel time are balance placeholders.

Open questions​

Planned Paid transit through ordinary (non-hub) cells, alternative routing for boxed-in players, and whether early central clustering that blocks peripheral routes is a flaw or intentional scarcity are undecided. See the Roadmap.