Rest Stop Tycoon Resource Readiness Planner

1. 1. Read the requirement literally. Open the panel for the action you want and read its current text. Requirements change between updates — the game record shows content landing on 2026-10-02, the day before this page's check — so a number you memorized last week is already a rumor.
2. 2. Test affordability against income, not balance. A requirement in reach is one your sales loop can refill quickly. If paying it would empty you to zero during a slow traffic spell, the honest answer is “wait”, and the planner says so.
3. 3. Test the trade-off before acting. Affordable is not the same as useful. Read what the purchase actually changes and whether that outcome serves your current goal — an expansion you can pay for still loses to a sales fix when the real constraint is what customers buy. Run the progress assistant if the bottleneck itself is unclear.

Your sales look healthy but the plot feels cramped, and an expansion panel just became visible. The planner's three steps run like this: the panel names a cash requirement (read it now — this is the number that matters); your last few minutes of customer purchases refill a comfortable fraction of it, so affordability passes; and the bottleneck test passes too, because traffic and spend are both converting and space is now the constraint.

The same panel with weak traffic fails the third step even if you can afford it twice over: more shelves behind a quiet entrance is capacity without demand. That session belongs to the customers guide first, and the expansion requirement can be re-read after arrivals recover.