☎ GOLD PHONE 

ERA 1 — THE MANUAL EXCHANGE
CREDITS: 0 RATE: 0/s EARNED: 0

TAP THE PAYPHONE

+1 per call
Every tap fishes coins from the return slot.

DISPATCH

Welcome, operator. Somewhere out there, a payphone is ringing. Answer the call of Australia's public telecommunications network — one coin at a time.

INFRASTRUCTURE

UPGRADES & HISTORY

DIVESTITURE

T1
T2
T3
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Float part of the network to the public market. Everything resets — booths, coins, upgrades — but the shares you issue permanently boost every future dollar collected.

Shares held: 0
Projected new shares from this float: 0
Permanent production bonus after float: +0%

PAYPHONE TAG — TERRITORY NETWORK

Spend Agents to capture and hold nodes. Rival cells will try to steal them back. Capturing an unclaimed node costs 15 Agents; recapturing a node you've previously lost to a rival costs 20 Agents — the amber badge on each uncaptured node shows its exact price right now. Score follows real Payphone Tag rules: 10 pts per unique capture, 15 pts per node currently held, 10 pts per connected edge you hold both ends of, 15 pts per completed triangle. Hold all 22 nodes at the same time and every dollar you earn — workers and taps alike — runs 50% hotter for as long as you keep the whole network; lose even one node to a rival and the bonus pauses until you take it back.

SCORE0
AGENTS0
HELD0/22
TRIANGLES0/13
🟢 green ring = your cell   🔴 red ring = a rival cell   grey = uncaptured   amber badge = Agent cost to capture/recapture. Tap a node to spend Agents capturing it.

TELEPRINTER LOG

SAVE / LOAD

This browser tab autosaves your progress every few seconds and whenever you close or leave it, so reloading or reopening the tab picks up right where you left off — offline progress is calculated from the last autosave's timestamp, credited at half your active production rate and capped at 8 hours. A downloaded save file is still the only copy that survives clearing your browser's data or moving to a different browser or device, so it's worth keeping one of those too.