
The career Playbook
Build the hill's operating identity.
Explore every talent, follow the prerequisites, and sketch a career-wide plan across Mountain Operations, Guest Experience, and Skier Development before you commit a point in the game.
One pool, three departments
Every point says what kind of mountain this becomes.
Boston teaches the core game first. The Playbook opens when you take on your second hill with one point, then awards another for every three guest-serving operating days across the career. Every talent you learn travels to every hill.
- 67
- talents
- 69
- points for every rank
- 3
- connected departments
Interactive talent planner
Trace a route before spending the point.
Choose a department and click any available icon to add it immediately. Locked nodes explain what comes first. You can plan here, then make the final choices in your game.
Three operating philosophies arranged as independent downhill branches.
Mountain Operations
Read the hill, automate carefully, move big iron, or keep old machinery alive.
Read the hill, set an objective, then coordinate work within real limits.
Expand the mountain's physical envelope with plant, fleet, and engineered exceptions.
Keep named machines alive through attention, parts, and accumulated care.
Talent reference
Every talent in one list.
Prefer a list? Every talent name and effect is collected below by department and branch.
Mountain Operations20 talents
Precision / Systems
Read the hill, set an objective, then coordinate work within real limits.
- Weather Station
- Build a staffed weather station and see 3 days further ahead, everywhere the forecast is shown.
- Shop Class — 3 ranks
- Every lift is 10% less likely to break, and stacks to 30%.
- Sensors in the Snow
- Read snow depth separately at the base, mid mountain, and summit.
- Seven-Day Book
- See seven days of traffic, grooming, and closures, plus next week's crowds.
- Snowmaking Dispatcher
- Overnight the guns aim at whichever part of the mountain is thinnest.
- Load Forecast
- Tomorrow's crowd range is capped at ±10% without widening a tighter range, and the desk drafts a lift schedule.
- Control Room
- Set one nightly priority and a spending cap for snowmaking and grooming.
- Leave It Running
- One less thing to set each night. Snowmaking starts and stops itself whenever the weather is right.
- Tuesday's Breakdown
- A paid service call undoes a lift's wear, or restarts a broken one today.
- Every Pass Has a Purpose
- Aim the same grooming budget at the busiest runs or the ones opening first.
- Mountain OS
- Stop planning the night shift. Snowmaking and grooming run themselves, and every override you make is logged.
Brute Force / Big Iron
Expand the mountain's physical envelope with plant, fleet, and engineered exceptions.
- Pump House
- Your snow guns reach higher up the mountain on nights the base is already covered.
- High-Pressure Loop
- The pump finishes one thin trail at a time instead of spreading snow evenly.
- High Lead
- Permission to build one giant lift that breaks the normal length and height limits.
- Storm Spine
- Pick one chairlift to keep running in storms and high wind, at half capacity.
Scrappy / Old School
Keep named machines alive through attention, parts, and accumulated care.
- The Lot Out Back
- Shop for used lifts each winter, with age and wear shown up front.
- Parts Bin
- Retire an old lift for a credit worth 65% of a new one, instead of selling it for cash.
- The Good Half of Two Lifts
- Scrap one old lift to give another a full overhaul toward classic status.
- Nothing a Wrench Can't Fix
- Reopen a closed lift this afternoon, broken down or under construction.
- They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To
- A well-kept old lift stops aging, and regulars seek it out.
Guest Experience29 talents
Shared Village
- Village Streets
- Pave the village in cobblestone or brick to set its look.
- House Favorite
- Renovate a venue guests already love into a Loved Landmark.
Destination
- Table and Tap
- Farm to Table and Craft Taproom concepts become available.
- Full-Service Crew
- Every food and drink venue you own serves one more guest at a time.
- The Guest Book
- Plan a guest's day around up to three village stops.
- Alpine Village
- Guest Book stops get an Alpine look that families and weekenders prefer.
- Last Chair Local
- Book live music at your venues.
- Village on Ice
- Build an ice rink as its own destination.
- Plans Change
- A guest who finds a stop full moves on to the next one.
- Overnight Desk
- Guest Book tables stay held until the lifts close.
- Stay the Weekend
- Happy guests who finish their Guest Book route are twice as likely to become regulars.
- Second Bell
- Turn on night skiing: lit lifts, evening arrivals, and cheaper night tickets.
- Mountain House
- A big lodge pulls guests into every venue around it.
Skiers' Mountain
- Glade Cutting
- Open runs through standing trees as glades.
- Hill Fuel
- Crunchy Healthy and Cocoa and Cider Hut concepts become available.
- Light on the Land
- One extra posted run beyond your limit, when it is a glade.
- Let It Bump
- Your least-groomed expert run grows moguls that draw experts.
- New England Classic
- Renovated venues on a wooded hill get a New England look locals prefer.
- Call It What It Is
- Experts are happier when you rate a hard run honestly hard.
- Powder List
- On powder days, expert regulars head for your glades and bumps.
- If You Know, You Know
- Word of your expert terrain becomes its own stream of visitors.
People Mover
- Feed the Rush
- Burger Shack and Bakery and Coffee concepts become available.
- Fitting Bench
- Rent out better performance skis at the village shop.
- Boot Room
- More guests rent performance skis when the fitting bench has room.
- Park and Ride
- Opens the talents past it. No effect of its own on the hill.
- No Frills
- Plain shops and quick food get a no-frills look core skiers prefer.
- Demo Fleet
- Add the newest demo skis, your top rental tier.
- One Queue, Best Queue
- Guests always pick the shortest lift line they can ride.
- No Bad Saturdays
- Hand surge days to your general manager. Staff move to the busy spots without you watching the queues.
Skier Development18 talents
Learning Mountain
- Learn Here
- Run beginner lessons, and students come back as regulars who ski better.
- One More Class
- After lunch, empty lesson seats open to walk-ins.
- Community School
- 15% more guests want a lesson at your hill.
- Instructor Bench
- Room for two more instructors on the payroll.
- Student Body
- Lesson bookings can fill 65% of the day's visitors, up from 45%.
- Office Hours
- Each instructor also runs two intermediate clinics a day.
- Home-Mountain List
- Skiers who learned here come back more often.
- Class Split
- Choose the winter's student mix: beginners, balanced, or clinics.
The Mountain Teaches
- Woods School
- Sell guided glade trips in a small booked group.
- Mountain Skills
- More trained skiers join your guided glade trips.
- Storm School
- Fewer injuries, and patrol gets there faster when one happens.
Race Works
- Set the Gates
- Unlocks the race course and a daily race.
- Gate Crew
- Four more racers start each race, for a bigger crew bill.
- Race Team
- Sell paid coaching to named racers, using your school's seats.
- Race Pipeline
- A coached race finish can make a home-taught skier advanced.
Clubs and Crews
- Nordic Track
- Unlocks the drawn cross-country course and its trail passes.
- Nordic Club
- Run a paid cross-country group that pays out after a full lap.
- The Range
- Unlocks the biathlon range upgrade.