Headquarters

When you start a new game in Rise of Industry, the first thing you do is place your Headquarters, also known as the HQ Building. The Headquarters building provides a general overview of several different functions.

Functions of the Headquarters
The Headquarters building has 5 main functions; Overview, Research, Loans, Contracts and Advancement.

Overview
In the overview you can do the following:
 * View the total value of all your assets
 * Choose a new headquarters model, after unlocking one of the following:
 * 8 unlocks in the rural specialization
 * 18 unlocks in the rural specialization
 * 7 unlocks in the light industry
 * 17 unlocks in the light industry
 * 4 unlocks in the heavy industry
 * 14 unlocks in the heavy industry
 * Relocate your Headquarters

Research
In the research tab you can view or change the following:
 * Set your monthly research (Tech Tree) investment amount. The investment amount can be set between $0, $100k, $250, $1M, $2.5M and $5M.
 * View your current research and unlock queue
 * Go directly to the Tech Tree

Loans
In the Loans tab you can view or do the following:
 * You current running loans and the option to pay them back immediatly
 * Take out a new loan

Contracts
The contracts tab shows the following:
 * Your current active contracts

Advancement
The advancement tab shows the following:
 * Settlements that desire to grow to the next size and require certain building materials to do so