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How are building and connection costs calculated for a new city?

Explained in the rulebook's Build Houses section.

  • Power Grid rulebook · Rulebook · Phase 4: Build Houses
  • goldy · Community · 2006-03-16
  • ravenskana · Community · 2014-09-09
  • Mayaheine · Community · 2021-11-23

Pay the cheapest total of connection costs from any city you already have to the new city, plus the cost of the cheapest open house space in the new city (10, 15 or 20). Cities you pass through cost nothing extra, you need not stop in them, and the new city need not be adjacent to your network.

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