City Report

An important note! Note: City reports of new-style cities will appear to not list any buildings at all if there is no Police Station.

All cities make periodical status reports every 13 minutes, otherwise known as a city cycle. The reports are deleted when they become more than 48 hours old.

The report contains all the information about the city, its population, population morale, and city inventory.

Viewing a city's reports can be done by anyone in the city's chain-of-command. This is done by right-clicking the city on the governance window's Cities tab, or right-clicking a system on the locator's star-map.

A new window will appear when choosing to view recent or history reports.

Example of a city report.

Using the slider at the top of the window, it is possible to see previous city reports. Do note that the inventory section of the report is removed from reports that are older than 2 hours.

Requesting a recent city report by mail simply sends the newest city report using the mail system. This is of little use for anything other than 3rd-party tools.

If a city is in distress (enemy in sensor range, under attack, disease, infestation, decay) the city will send a mail to everyone in the city's chain-of-command. The distress mail contains nothing but the basic location info, the short distress message and the event log.
To get more information about the city's status during the distress, bring up the history report and use the slider to locate the reports containing the distress.

How to

View city reports:

1. Open the Governance window (F12)
2. Go to the Cities tab
3. Select the desired city
4. Right-click it and choose "Recent Report..." or "History Report..."

Get city reports by mail:

1. Open the Governance window (F12)
2. Go to the Cities tab
3. Select the desired city
   • Select multiple using CTRL or SHIFT
4. Right-click it and choose "Recent Report by Mail..."
5. Open the Mail window (F2)
6. Click the "Request New Messages" button

Indy Tools and Mods

• HazeronAdviser
  City status and ship log viewer for Shores of Hazeron.

Trivia

• City reports used to be distributed via the mail system every 13 minutes. But this was changed in the 2014-07-02 update, because of the huge strain it had on the mail system.
• It has become a common way to identify returning players, by them asking why they aren't receiving any "City Status Reports" via the mail.

Quotes from patch notes

Related patch notes

Update 2014-07-02: City Cycle Reports Overhauled the way cities generate their city reports. Routine city reports are no longer sent to you via mail. City reports are accessed using the star map. Right-click on a city to request a report. Two kinds of reports can be requested. Recent report sends you the most recent two city reports from a city, so they can be compared for changes. This is typically a small amount of data. History report sends you all reports generated in the past 24 hours. That is 112 reports and it's a fair bit more data. Reports appear on a modeless dialog so you can view several at once. When requesting a report for a city in your current solar system, the response time is very fast. When requesting a report for a city in a different solar system, the report can take some time to appear, usually several seconds, potentially longer; be patient. Tech level upgrades show green as before but the highlight is based on comparing the previous report to the current report. Therefore, the first report in the series cannot show this highlighting. This fixes a bug where the highlighting was sometimes incorrect in the old reports. Distress and decay reports still send you a mail message that contains only the distress or decay subportions of the city report. That way the mail program can continue to inform you of problems at cities. City reports are available to anyone who is in the same empire as the city. I did not see this as a security issue. Please don't decide you want these restricted to chain-of-command. Update 2014-07-03: Governance Places Improved the Places page of the Governance (F12) window. Enabled multiple selection of cities in the list. Added right-click menu options for selected cities. Recent Report - Just like on the star map. History Report - Just like on the star map. Recent Report by Mail - Requests the last city report be sent to you via mail. Surrender - Surrenders city to another empire. Removed surrender buttons, now on right-click menu. Added Galaxy column to the cities table. Update 2014-07-07: City Report Authority Citizens should not be able to request city reports unless they are in the chain-of-command of the city. Done. When selecting more than one city, you must be in the chain-of-command of all selected cities. Update 2014-07-07: City Report Data Load City reports are taking too much space to store. City reports now discard item inventory after 2 hours. City reports now discarded after 48 hours instead of 24 hours due to huge reduction in size by dropping inventory. This is stated on the tool tip for the timeline slider on the dialog that shows city reports.