Connected World · field guide
Three ways to act.
One world to care for.
People, Systems, and Planet each begin at 50. Your foundation begins with 100 resources. Each crisis asks you to decide what to protect now, what to transform, and what capacity to strengthen.
The foundation you establish
Choose an annual payout of 5%, 10%, 15%, or 20% of remaining assets. Lower rates preserve capital; higher rates put more to work sooner. This revision keeps payout as a rate, rather than a scheduled closure.
Choose conventional portfolio exposure from 0% to 80%. In this model it offers a higher expected return and adds environmental pressure proportional to the money still invested. Mission-aligned investments avoid that modeled pressure, but returns can still be negative.
Your world’s horizon
Short Play has four active crises and six subsequent years. Full Play has six crises and ten subsequent years. At the midpoint, you can revise payout and portfolio exposure once.
At the end, the world is saved if average health is above 33 and no dimension is below 30. The record also shows the hardship experienced along the way.
Allocate across three approaches
Direct Service
Meet immediate needs. All grant impact arrives this year. Depending on the response, it can also help Systems or Planet: relief does not carry an automatic environmental penalty.
Systems Transformation
Change underlying conditions. 40% of the grant impact arrives next year; 60% arrives the year after. The crisis explains which dimensions benefit.
Civic Infrastructure
Strengthen coordination and accountability. Half of grant impact arrives now, half next year. Civic work also sustains capacity that reduces existing pressure over time.
Planet is part of every decision
Scenario responses connect environmental health to school buildings, health infrastructure, livelihoods, housing, food, and flood protection. Portfolio exposure adds pressure. Weak institutions and eroding civic capacity add vulnerability. Existing civic capacity reduces some pressure; it does not create a blanket endgame bonus.
Those are explicit model assumptions. They do not imply that every institutional reform benefits the environment or every conventional investment causes equal harm.
Read, decide, then see what changed
Each year has three screens: the crisis, your allocation, and the scorecard. After you commit, the scorecard reveals immediate help, earlier commitments arriving, current pressure, investment returns, portfolio effects, and civic protection. “On the way” shows the year and source of delayed benefits. Future promises do not count as current health.
You can leave money invested. It stays in the endowment and continues to carry its investment exposure. Holding back also reduces the amount deployed automatically in later years.
Follow the same rules to the end
After active play, the foundation uses your historical spending mix and actual spending fraction. Everyday pressure is lower than the active crises. Returns remain seeded and grants still take time.
Watch each year or advance to the ending. The chart shows actual annual outcomes, and the full accounting remains available. Work still pending after the final year is reported separately.
The numerical model
Per effective unit: Direct Service creates 2.8 points; Systems Transformation 3.8; Civic Infrastructure 2.6. Each scenario distributes these across People, Systems, and Planet. The first 6 currency units per approach per year deliver at full effectiveness; additional units deliver at 40% because of limited delivery capacity.
Civic capacity begins at 20, retains 88% each year, and gains 1.5 per civic currency unit, capped at 100. It prevents up to 45% of existing Systems and Planet base pressure, and one quarter as much People pressure. New capacity begins protecting in the following year. Neglect is determined by accumulated capacity, not a missed allocation in a single year.
Annual portfolio Planet pressure is remaining invested assets ÷ 100 × conventional share × 4. Annual returns have a 10% bad-year chance: −5% mission-aligned or −10% conventional. Mission-aligned returns are +8% in another 10% of years and +5.875% otherwise. Conventional returns are +10% in the other 90%. Expected returns are 5% and 8%, respectively; all exposures share the same economic weather.
Planet below 40 adds People pressure at 0.06 per missing point. People below 30 adds Systems pressure at 0.07 per missing point. Systems below 40 adds Planet pressure at 0.04 per missing point. Civic capacity below 20 adds up to 3 Planet pressure. These bounded feedbacks allow recovery.
After active play, annual base pressure is 7 People, 4 Systems, 4 Planet. Scores are bounded between 0 and 100 each year; any bounds adjustment is shown in the ledger. There is no separate durability bonus.