I. City Growth

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In this phase, cities grow if they have received every good that is produced on the board up to the full potential of the city: a size 1 city needs one of every good on the board to become a size 2 city. A size 2 city needs 2 of every good to become a size 3 city. Discard all delivered goods, regardless of whether the city grew larger.

Replace the city with a stone of the appropriate color. (size 1 is colored green, size 2 is yellow, and size 3 red). If there are no more tokens available, it is not possible to upgrade a city.

If there are multiple cities that can be upgraded, but not enough tokens, the player who is first in order of play chooses which cities to upgrade.

Note that a city needs only those goods that are being produced on the board. In the first years, there is never any rubber, siap faji or oil, and it can even happen that there are no spices.

In this case, the city needs only rice to grow! In some games, a similar situation occurs towards the end: if all rice and spice companies merge into siap faji companies, cities no longer require rice or spice to grow.