Footfall

Footfall is a game mechanic in which a Beacon earns Coin when another Player's Citizen enters the Beaconed area. It must be manually collected by opening the Beacon Control and using the menu to collect the Footfall Coin. Only the owner of the Beacon can collect the Footfall. Footfall may instead be directed to the Guild controlling the Beacon.

The Citizens of Friended Players who have Beacons or Permissions on Beacons in the same Settlement do not contribute to Footfall.

Calculation
The base amount of Footfall granted depends on the size of the Settlement containing the Beacon (see the table under Settlement).

Each Citizen visiting a Beacon creates Footfall on that Beacon once per 24 hours real-life time. The amount of footfall generated by the Citizen is reduced if there has been less than 120 real-life hours since the last grant. Footfall per Citizen is also reduced by the total number of visitors using a stepwise function: under a certain threshold of Citizen visits 100% of footfall is granted, over that amount 80% until the next threshold, and so on.