The Constitution
This is a promise, not a policy. It will not be quietly edited later.
Money can buy
- How you look: cosmetics, trails, nameplates.
- A slightly longer stride, capped at 2x today and at 2x forever. The same boots are free at 25 km walked. Paying is a shortcut, never a gate.
- A permanent mark on the road, at a place you have personally walked to.
Money can never buy
- Steps. Not one. Steps are only ever produced by a human input.
- A Walker Number.
- A landmark discovery.
- A streak, or protection from losing one.
- A higher tap rate, a higher daily cap, or relief from getting tired.
- Someone else’s spot on the road.
- Distance you did not walk to.
Why the split matters
There are two numbers in this game. Steps is a record of human intent, and it is never for sale. Distance is where your body is, and it is negotiable. Every leaderboard, every anti-cheat decision, and any reward system that might ever exist hangs off that distinction.
It is enforced in three places, not one: in the type system, in the application layer, and by database constraints that reject any attempt to decrease either number.
Things we will not build
- Loot boxes or anything with a random reward.
- A virtual currency. Prices are in real money, so you can see them.
- Purchasable streak protection. We will not profit from you failing.
- Countdowns, fake urgency, or limited-time pressure.
- Notifications that nag you to come back.
- Offline progress. Nothing accrues while you are away.
- Fake walkers. The crowd is real or it is nothing.
Getting tired is not a punishment
Your stride shortens over a long day and stops entirely at 25,000 steps. That is not a paywall and it cannot be bought off. It exists so that a script running all night gains barely more than a person who played for twenty minutes. It also means the game tells you to go away sometimes.
If this game ever shuts down
A static, public archive of every walker’s final position and every mark on the road will be published. You are buying permanence; permanence has to mean something.