Blueprints/Megastructures

[Rik81 0]

How large (population) do you think a city should be, before installing a Blueprint in it?  They seem very expensive to build, but then I'm a very poor city builder, LOL.  Is there some minimum of positive cash flow one should have (and hopefully increasing from there).

EDIT:  Another question:  What is "Upkeep Cost"?  Sounds like more than one time--how often are you charged?

[Sainty 0]

Place them as soon as you can afford to keep them unbuild. Some cost like 5k to 25k to maintain if they are unbuild, if you can afford that, place them in you city and start building them only when you can afford the end cost (20k to 100k).

[Rik81 0]

Still not clear on the "cost". Like I have a couple of blueprints (not activated yet). Each of them says "Upkeep cost 50,000," Is that paid when I place the blue print down in a city? Then when else--every "day" (whatever that is), or every time I add tokens to it for the construction?

[Sainty 0]

That cost is the maintaince cost per tick when the megastructure is finished. When you activate your BP it will show up as a building ingame in the menu under landmarks. It will also tell you how much the starting maintaince/upkeep cost will be after you place the building in your city. The more you build on your megastructure, the higher the maintance cost will be, and when its finished it will end up at 50k per tick.

If you dont activate and place your BP before next lottery, you will lose the blueprint.