Brightside

Stage 6 adds three fair rivals and Easy, Normal and Hard decision quality. Select one rival, all three or solo practice before a fresh $200 start. End week advances everyone once under identical market conditions. Rivals shows four-goal progress and milestones; the weakest goal ranks first. A race requires all four targets at the existing opening checkpoint. Fixed same-opening priority is you, then the selected rivals. Race saves have a separate slot. Old saves continue solo; export/import transfers a race to another browser or address.

Stage 5 keeps the 60-hour week and six-hour/eight-wage work session. The ordinary market index stays between 85 and 115, using linear whole-dollar shop prices; entry offers are at least $4. Paid contracts and possessions are retained when copying a save. Future rent reviews are capped, with notice.

Click the food/rent status for Essentials & Bills. Pay due rent directly without a housing-office journey; covered periods cannot be paid twice. Arrears are separate. Food shortcuts still charge the existing travel and purchase costs. Owned homes have no rent; mortgage collections and household bills keep their existing schedule.

Open Budget for current cash provision, required work shifts, debts and four goal targets. Planning reserves are not extra fees. Each score is out of 100; Quick, Compact, Standard, Extended and custom targets are selected before a new match. Copied targets stay unchanged.

Leisure time is counted once across activities. A functional washer now uses 0.6 clothing weeks per week. Actual work at a career tier is required for its reliability milestone. Medical protection, investment gains and losses, all shops and optional luxury remain.

Life & Leisure opens the illustrated experience book. Free walks and community gatherings book at home; dining, cinema, celebrations and holidays book at Corner Plate. Home music/film require working installed goods. Full time and spending cash are charged once. Activities support bounded quality of life, not permanent score clicks. Holidays have eight-week cooldowns and luxury is optional.

Invitations & weekly life shows saved choices, discounts, bursaries, faults and the event journal. Declining is free. One random event is selected per weekly opening; an ineligible event becomes a quiet week. Medical cooldown is four clear weeks, with at least one clear week between adverse events. Fridge faults occur after food settlement and allow one week to respond. Repairs use actual quotes; reminders never bill twice.

Housing & Household: visit Brightside Housing to browse all four tiers, preview exteriors/interiors and compare renting, a 20% mortgage deposit or an outright purchase. Current lease & mortgage opens rent, bill and repayment controls. Mortgages require six observed income weeks, debt service at most 35% of that average, and a four-week reserve after deposit and closing costs. Ownership and luxury are optional.

At HomeSpark, browse all twelve illustrated products. Installed working goods provide their stated benefits; boxed goods remain yours with benefits paused. At home, Arrange possessions shows condition, repair, installation, storage and confirmed resale. Refrigerator capacities are 6, 10 or 12 with a freezer; a washer slows clothing wear; beds improve paid rest; TV and stereo support paid home activities.

Mortgage principal and accrued interest are liabilities; equity is property resale minus that debt and is never counted twice. Insurance, utilities and actual routine maintenance appear in the weekly household book. Mutual Bank supports chosen transfers and mortgage repayments. Copies retain earlier profile saves and existing lease prices; the preview discloses the new running costs.

Modern Foundation scores are out of 100, with targets shown separately. Career needs certified job tiers and milestones, education counts unique qualifications, wealth includes quoted goods resale less debts, and happiness follows weekly wellbeing.

All eleven College courses are visible. Locked cards show their prerequisite; Business Management requires General College Studies. Study carries partial paid minutes. Work takes six hours, earns eight wage units and credits history by actual time.

Rest and free activities are available at home. Food and a complete six-hour rest reduce next-opening medical risk to 2%; missing them raises it to 6%. Illness is not tied to carrying cash, and medical cooldown prevents another doctor event for four clear weeks. Review causes and payable bills in the household book.

Modern visits charge travel only. In the Transport profile, Good Deal Motors at Good Deal Depot offers six cars with the same town speed. Select Walk or Drive in Your Transport. Walking leaves the car parked; use Collect parked car to retrieve it. Service reception at Lantern Works and the dealership arrange fuel and vehicle care, including mobile attention to the parked car. Insurance is billed once per closing week; debts remain after sale. Investments and bank services remain. Copying an old save requires a preview and leaves the source intact.

Modern Mode visits charge walking only. At Mutual Bank, the Investment Desk accepts chosen cash amounts and Low, Medium or High Risk. Week 1 deposits receive their first return as Week 2 opens. Risk changes on funded accounts begin after the current week settles. Gains and losses are possible; withdrawals are required before shopping. Classic Mode keeps its previous entry rules and has no Modern risk-tier desk.

Visit Opportunity House and select the illustrated vacancy board. Browse nine employers, compare wages and requirements, and apply. Every attempt costs four hours, including a rejection. The diner cook is guaranteed entry work; factory roles require prior progress.

Travel to your employer and use the staff clock. Six hours pays eight times your listed hourly wage. A final partial session pays proportionally. Work adds experience and dependability below job/qualification caps; each new week loses three dependability. New jobs require applications, not automatic promotions. Reapply for your current role when its posted wage improves to request a raise.

At Brightside College, choose the course catalogue. Pay one enrolment fee, then take six-hour lessons; tuition is not charged per lesson. Two foundations open the eleven-course graph gradually. Ten lessons normally earn a qualification. A home computer reduces that to nine from the next week. You may optionally prepay enrolments before choosing future courses.

Thread & Thimble sells casual, dress and business clothing. Requirements govern working, not applying. Every owned clothing tier ages each week; buy replacements before it prevents earning. The adult sprite retains the approved casual presentation in this stage.

Gold nameplates indicate working services or your hired workplace. Basket & Bloom sells weekly groceries; a refrigerator keeps six units fresh. Corner Plate sells prepared food, which needs no storage; drinks do not count as meals. Missing food costs twenty hours next week, and illness can cost more. Brightside Housing handles rent in weeks 4, 8, 12? or an agreed extension. Missed rent becomes arrears and is collected from wages. Use the household book for due dates, balances and weekly reports. HomeSpark shopping and rest at your current home remain available.

Stage 4 autosaves separately after actions. Use Resume from the opening screen on this same local address. Tab/Enter select controls; city Left/Right cycles all places. Escape closes panels, then returns to the city. Reduced motion preserves costs. Food settlement, rent, housing and banking are active. Savings earn no interest; normal $50 loan payments clear $45 principal with a $5 charge. Opponents and victory remain for later approval. The normal labour/tuition market fluctuates; full economy shocks remain for later.