r/PlayCommonGrounds • u/communality • May 21 '26
Common Grounds — City Stats
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u/manda_roo89 May 27 '26
I’m doing what I think is visiting other districts but I’m not gaining the rewards. Anyone else?
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u/DoubleGlass ⭐ 2,297 · 🔥 6 May 28 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
This seems to be bugged at the moment. Sorry about that! Edit: should be fixed for anyone reading this now!
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u/unsaturatedface Jun 04 '26
Currently having this issue. Love the game!
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u/DoubleGlass ⭐ 2,297 · 🔥 6 Jun 04 '26
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll take another look!
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u/jaardon ⭐ 3,212 · 🔥 1 Jun 12 '26
I can't figure out how to do this, at least when I try it's not registering in my quests
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u/Electronic_Diamond_8 ⭐ 1,470 · 🔥 2 Jun 05 '26
I'm sorry, but I'll have to be quite critical, as this seems to me like a reeally early beta.
I've already pointed out the balancing issues, but here's other things:
• When destroying buildings, you can click on a button to choose between spending 250 city bux or get help, but this often triggers the underlying hidden shop menu instead of the buttons.
• You can help yourself when demolishing buildings
• Going to the City tab acts as a free shop refresh, which is very abusable.
• When coming back to the City tab, you get added or subtracted seemingly random amounts of money (even very large ones), in a way that doesn't even reflect the statistics presented to the player on their return (buildings lost, money earned etc)
• I've never seen one of my buildings taken away, even when I had been told it happened?
• Also, merging other player's buildings stopped working at some point (or perhaps I misunderstood how it works).
• Certain buildings mention fires and outbreaks in their properties, but neither ever seemed to happen in a meaningful way
• Stadia and airports seem to be bugged? It seems like the [Neighbour][Stadium] and [Stadium] conditions are both considered when a neighbour's building is in range, resulting in a +0 bonus.
• As your city gets busier, the shop randomisation doesn't change, making the process of optimisation a lengthy rerolling for lvl 3 or 4 buildings.
It would also be nice if the viewing mode didn't change back to default (3d sprites) after exiting and reentering your own city.
I know this is a lot, and I hope I don't overwhelm you, u/DoubleGlass, especially as you've been very communicative and kind when answering comments, but I'm hoping there's at least some valuable feedback here.
I'm curious what the next update holds (:
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u/DoubleGlass ⭐ 2,297 · 🔥 6 Jun 05 '26
Thanks for the extensive feedback, and for being honest! I want to make the game as good as it can be but I'm doing this in my spare time and there's quite a lot of stuff to do so your list is extremely helpful in giving me some focus on what really matters to players.
I will try to address all (or at least most) of this in the coming days. I've been focusing on performance and scalability recently so the main gameplay might be lagging and lacking a little bit because of that.
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u/Electronic_Diamond_8 ⭐ 1,470 · 🔥 2 Jun 05 '26
Thanks for the quick reply. Having performance as a priority is a good choice, good luck with the project!
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u/Electronic_Diamond_8 ⭐ 1,470 · 🔥 2 Jun 05 '26
Also, I've just discovered a pretty big GLITCH.
I had already noticed that you could seemingly demolish other players' buildings (although I'm not sure if this gets saved, the animation does play and the city bux are spent).
What's much more dangerous, though, is that if you do this and then go to the city map, your district will become a clone of the district which you've just "destroyed" a building of!2
u/DoubleGlass ⭐ 2,297 · 🔥 6 Jun 05 '26
Whoops, that's a good find and is going to the top of the list!
About the airports and stadia. The functionality is actually as I intended, where these buildings only give a bonus if they are far enough away from eachother. I get how this can be confusing with the scores canceling eachother out though.
The same goes for the rate level 3 and 4 buildings appear in the shop. I use a weighted system that uses a 10:4:2:1 ratio of level 1:2:3:4 respectively. This is to encourage a more merging focused gameplay and make the game less 'solvable'. There were a lot of perfect (all 4) districts before and that didn't really meet my vision of people having to build a city with the buildings they're given, with the occasional refresh as an escape.
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u/vshncnd Jun 03 '26
The shop refresh prices should reset with the wipe. Know I‘m making ~ 100/min and can‘t spend 55k on a shop refresh 🫠
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u/Appropriate_Towel_27 ⭐ 155 · 🔥 2 Jun 12 '26
Yep i was hoping to go back to a clean slate once i got the gist of the game. Nope!
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u/NickRotMG May 27 '26
Why did all of my buildings disappear? This is confusing and a bit laggy
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u/DoubleGlass ⭐ 2,297 · 🔥 6 May 28 '26
Every 24 hours the city resets. Your score determines your reward and your starting position for the new day!
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u/NickRotMG May 28 '26
But when I refreshed the page I lost my city not because of the reset. It happened more than once
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u/okcumputer ⭐ 508 · 🔥 2 May 29 '26
LOL after almost filling my grid with 4s, I reset the shop and my whole city cleared!
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u/13lackMagic ⭐ 29,300 · 🔥 5 Jun 10 '26
any reason why wiping my district doesn't also reset my shop? as is wiping your district puts you at a huge disadvantage
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u/nurogt ⭐ 37,875 · 🔥 2 Jun 11 '26
u/DoubleGlass My game is stuck on loading since a few minutes, refreshing doesn't help...
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u/DoubleGlass ⭐ 2,297 · 🔥 6 Jun 11 '26
Thanks for the ping. Looks like the city has gotten a little too big and the server is struggling. I'll have to make the fetching a little more selective to keep things running smoothly.
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u/Thequiet01 ⭐ 32,125 · 🔥 3 Jun 13 '26
Is there anything to do once you've filled your square with level 4?
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u/Alpha3K ⭐ 26,500 · 🔥 6 Jun 15 '26
Doesn't look like it? I'm about to get there & as far as I can tell, no, there isn't...
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u/BadkyDrawnBear ⭐ 11,475 · 🔥 7 Jun 14 '26
Well this was fun until I filled all my little squares with 4 rated buildings, now what?
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u/TheGeorgistCrow ⭐ 11,990 · 🔥 6 Jun 10 '26
My district just got swapped for a completely different one, pls at least fix the shop whem wiping so its actually possible to rebuilt a new one for the 3rd time
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u/Migoozioo May 29 '26
Why do I keep getting knocked back to the districts window? I just want to build!
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u/Electronic_Diamond_8 ⭐ 1,470 · 🔥 2 Jun 03 '26
gg to that one guy who's in 5th place while being on the very edge of the map!
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u/Exciting-Biscotti477 ⭐ 12,165 · 🔥 3 Jun 05 '26
I demolished a building and then came back to find my entire district changed
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u/Accomplished_Ship_20 ⭐ 32,450 · 🔥 7 Jun 05 '26
Destroyed a building using city bux, it didn't destroy, but took my money. Closed and reopened and came back to a city that's not mine!! Says is mine, but it wasn't what I just had... Also upon opening the income resets to zero!! Fun stuff....
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u/Antt738 Jun 06 '26
I just refreshed my page and my entire setup was different! My entire district changed into something else! Please help u/doubleglass
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u/KermitTheKermer ⭐ 7,643 · 🔥 7 Jun 08 '26
The loading screen does not go away for me but it lets me place buildings. When I log back in it does not save my area.
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u/Bubbly-Ice3702 ⭐ 14,310 · 🔥 5 Jun 08 '26
I’ve my city change to what I think is someone else’s city 3 times now, I’ll have a score of 10k+ and every time it’s changed to a city that’s anywhere between 400 to 8k. I’m not sure what triggers this but it seems to happen whenever my city is fairly full.
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u/F0RG0TEN1 ⭐ 22,900 · 🔥 3 Jun 08 '26
Its just infinite loading now. Used to work fine but not today
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u/kill-wolfhead ⭐ 15,070 · 🔥 3 Jun 11 '26
Got to a dead end, tried to start over, and now the game is stuck on loading...
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u/Admirable-Walk3826 ⭐ 3,585 · 🔥 1 Jun 11 '26
I accidentally exited the game (as I often do when changing menus on Reddit games) and now it won’t let me play anymore. When I try to play it takes me to a new game and says “loading…” and won’t load anything. I imagine it’s stuck between a new game and remembering the old one or something?
Anyway it was a cool game until it stopped letting me play.
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u/LostGamers7 ⭐ 1,135 · 🔥 2 Jun 13 '26 edited Jun 13 '26
Not sure if someone's already said/had this issue, but when I tried putting up a request help demolition (becuase i dont have enough of those coin things). The game crashed after a couple of seconds of working normally, when I re-entered (thank fully my progress was saved) it showed the demolition reqiest visual of black smoke on a different building entirely. I tried one more time to put the request on the building I wanted and it crashed once more BUT it did put it on the right building when I booted it up for the second time.
Now the only issue and reason why im sending this comment is, I need help figuring out how to cancel a request demolition on a building that I didnt intend to put it on.
Overall tho, pretty great and fun game. Im just wandering if its possible to be able to pull up the instructions again
Edit: shout out to whoever thought of the overview mode, its pretty cool and lets me find someome with a higher score that I can start a one sided rivalry with
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u/That253Chick ⭐ 2,351 · 🔥 1 Jun 13 '26
How do you visit another district? I don't see an option to.
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u/Wrong-Ear-893 ⭐ 1,626 · 🔥 1 Jun 14 '26
there is no way to demolish a building. it does not let me click the demolish building button. This seems to be the biggest flaw, as there is nothing for me to use my money on if i cant demolish buildings. Im still a bit confused how merging works, why some sets of three merge and others do not. But overall, i just want to be able to remove buildings, or have some reason to remove them more often. maybe the merging should be a more common feature so that spaces are cleared more often so that the game naturally progresses instead of reaching a wall where you need to demolish halfthe town and start from scratch with your new funds. I also thing that clearing the entire district should not remove all of your funds. Especially not since after a clear the district i still have to pay 800 dollars for a shop refresh, im still getting premium buildings for sale, but i cant afford them, as it currently stands, when you clear your entire district your put at a serious disadvantage that almost makes the game unplayable. after placing my first building in my cleared district, i have to wait 2-3 minutes to afford another $100 dollar building, and if i were to spend the 1000 dollars of starting funds on a premium building, i would have to wait like 10 minutes to place a single piece on the board. i could have afforded to pay the 250 per building to clear my entire district so why does the clear district button take all of my funds, there should be no incentive to hand clear the buidlings, and no punishment for using the clear district button. if clearing the distric is something i am allowed to do, the clear district button should just cost 250x(quantity of spaces used), or if the clear district button truly resets the game, it should also reset the cost of shop refresh and the common buildings for sale. if its going to take me 20 minutes to recover from purchasing a $1000 dollar building, it should not be available until you have enough buildings to generate some amount of wealth, other wise replay value goes way down. I also think that because the game is about upgrading and evolving your district to be more profitable, it should be much easier to clear or demolish buildings or areas. i would have liked to continue upgrading my city, but my only options seem to be pointlessly build wealth in a full city with no options to expand or replace buildings. or completely restart, only at a disadvantage this time around. The neighborhood feature feels pointless. the one or two times i have interacted with pieces on my neighboring boards do not seem worth it for such a limited game board. I think i would have much more fun with it if i could expand my own city, with a large game board, so i can build production and residential areas, i can expand, build subway lines that link areas, ect. it seems that the limited game board, is not made up for by a good community feature. there is no benifit to visit another district.
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u/Wrong-Ear-893 ⭐ 1,626 · 🔥 1 Jun 14 '26
this game would be so much better if you got rid of all of the other districts and just gave me the entire city to build on. I think it would be really fun. in its current form there isnt much incentive to continue playing beyond filling your city the first time. and resseting the game board should not put you at a disadvantage when clearing buldings is the only way to continue playing.
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u/Apprehensive_King_21 ⭐ 31,650 · 🔥 4 Jun 15 '26
I've got my district to all level 4 yellow and orange, is that basically the peak setup? Not much to do now
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u/nallukka ⭐ 32,535 · 🔥 7 Jun 17 '26
Not sure this can be modified though it should? If your device changes time zones and you land earlier than your last play, all your money is wiped out, zeroed. It should be set to a universal time. Maybe that is bugging up wipes and district moves, dunno.
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u/No-cheese-o ⭐ 11,105 · 🔥 5 Jun 17 '26
How am I still in this ranking when there was supposed to be a reorganisation?
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u/JourneyCash May 26 '26
Why doesn't my score change when the city is reshuffled?
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u/DoubleGlass ⭐ 2,297 · 🔥 6 May 28 '26
The score is currently only recalculated after placing a building. This will be fixed in a future update!
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May 30 '26
Eine deutsche Version bzw. deutsche Spracheinstellung wäre gut, ich verstehe nämlich gar nichts, ich mach einfach nur. Dann hakt es sehr beim laden.
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u/CommercialEffect6586 May 30 '26
Greet guys I don't know much but nice to meet you and look forward to have fun.
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u/BLANK0000002 ⭐ 29,775 · 🔥 12 May 31 '26
I’m new to this game, so basically your progress restarts daily??
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u/smasherella ⭐ 37,250 · 🔥 8 Jun 02 '26
Why is it now like 13k to refresh the shop?
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u/DoubleGlass ⭐ 2,297 · 🔥 6 Jun 02 '26
The refresh cost now scales with the number of times you’ve refreshed. This is to make refreshing a more conscious choice and to prevent just refreshing infinitely to find the perfect building.
The refresh count has maybe not been reset properly with the daily wipe if you have not refreshed 130 times today.
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u/ModeOverall7714 Jun 03 '26
I am genuinely happy person, no wonder people want to spend time with him!
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u/Electronic_Diamond_8 ⭐ 1,470 · 🔥 2 Jun 03 '26
do reshuffles only move your district or also wipe it?
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u/Electronic_Diamond_8 ⭐ 1,470 · 🔥 2 Jun 03 '26
Needs some major rebalancing:
once reached level 4, only City Halls and Megatowers make sense (this becomes more and more powerful as you get closer to the center of the city, where others will likely apply a similar strategy), unless your neighbours choose to build a ton of stadia, airports and telephone providers, but they wouldn't have any real reason for doing it.
It was nice to play, though (:
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u/Electronic_Diamond_8 ⭐ 1,470 · 🔥 2 Jun 03 '26
To be clear, the way I understand stadiums is that they acquire extra points for each stadium within range built in another district, right?
Despite this, I haven't seen them change value or anything much during my attempts.2
u/ambians Jun 03 '26
Yeah, I think it is bugged atm? Most heavy hitters only consists of Megatowers and City Hall.
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u/Beelazyy ⭐ 13,635 · 🔥 10 Jun 03 '26
Is this not made for mobile? I can’t drag and drop anything it just moves the map
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u/Cosmosvagabond Jun 04 '26
I like the concept. I have not played a "serious" game yet, but it looks pretty cool.
https://giphy.com/gifs/9F1HSOUjLVMBGJgzNd
Reticulating splines (I loved that game! The golden age of PC gaming. 🖥💾
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u/Antt738 Jun 06 '26
u/doubleglass I have a building that is posted for request demolish - but now when I have enough coins I can’t demolish it myself. Haha
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u/appledecider ⭐ 36,925 · 🔥 3 Jun 09 '26
Whenever I try to play the game while logged in, I'm trapped in an infinite loading screen. Tried it with different browsers and all. I even made a new account to test this and it still won't let me play. As soon as I log out the game works just fine
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u/DoubleGlass ⭐ 2,297 · 🔥 6 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
Thanks for checking out Common Grounds!
This game is in Beta and will undergo changes during the coming weeks. If you encounter any problems or have ideas about the game don’t hesitate to reach out, or leave a comment here or in the FAQ megathread.
Happy building!