I played a couple of rounds, it’s very interesting, I appreciated the tutorial and it’s actually very un to see the number going up and down. I would however link the timer to either the number of card drawn, played or/and discarded. Making it somewhat turn based and not strickly limited by IRL time. Also, I think the “double for each connected cities” is wrong, for example one city was at 20 connected to only one, and it peaked at 99 for reasons x)
I would love to see it debugged, polished, with an end screen and maybe with some events happening so the text zone used for the tutorial is later used again it created more challenge.