NTE City Life Guide: Vehicles, Fishing, Housing, Cooking & Mahjong

City Tycoon is the umbrella system for all of Neverness to Everness's urban life content — think of it as a separate 'game within a game' inside Hethereau, covering business, racing, fishing, break-ins, and home decoration. What makes this more than a cosmetic detour is that the entire system revolves around raising S-class Chiz — a strong character you earn ENTIRELY FREE just by grinding city-life, no gacha pulls required.

• It unlocks after clearing an early story quest, where you meet Chiz and pick up your first Tycoon card.
• Two resources belong only to this system: Fons (city currency, easy to earn) and City Stamina — a gauge that RESETS EVERY WEEK, entirely separate from the regular exploration Stamina you use to sprint, climb, or dodge.
• Higher Tycoon Levels unlock more: a cafe, fishing, a heist that costs zero stamina, and eventually deeper Chiz milestones (her own weapon, her duplicate copy).

Verdict: if you're treating city-life as filler between story chunks, you're skipping a free S-class character and an indirect gacha resource — neither of which is filler at all.

GameVika's Vehicles page currently lists 20 driveable models, built straight from live client data. The underlying dataset is wider — 70 rows once you count activity-specific variants, plus 38 rentable vehicles and 13 skin sets that don't count as separate models — but 20 is the number you actually choose from in the Garage.

• M1000, C2000, Enforcer — Brand: Novus · How to get it: Buy with Fons
• Griffin, Pendragon, Blizzard-V4 — Brand: Regalia · How to get it: Buy with Fons
• Dominus S — Brand: Regalia · How to get it: Rental-only
• G3 — Brand: TerraX · How to get it: Buy with Fons
• Porsche 918 Spyder — Brand: Porsche (collab) · How to get it: Racing event / brand collab

Your first car reportedly runs around 50,000 Fons (single community source, not cross-checked yet) — far cheaper than your first apartment. The Garage lets you customize paint and modifications, and most models are flagged modifiable: true in the data, meaning further upgrades roll out later.

Fishing unlocks at an early Tycoon Level through the 'Good Morning, Hethereau' quest (single community source, not cross-checked) — the minigame has you keeping a yellow marker inside a green zone until the fish tires out. The underlying data confirms exactly 99 fish species, 27 baits (from the all-purpose Universal Bait to the specialized Eight Treasure Bait), and 4 rod tiers (Fishing Rod I through IV).

• Orange (rarest) — Species: 30 · A few real names from data: Lightning Eel, Golden Arowana, Kohaku Koi
• Purple — Species: 16 · A few real names from data: Thunder Dragon, Golden Thunder Dragon, Sapphire Scale
• Blue — Species: 29 · A few real names from data: Neon Tetra, Goldfish, Silver Arowana
• Green (common) — Species: 24 · A few real names from data: Black-Striped Piranha, Living Jade, Payara

Per one English-language source, the city has 8 fishing spots scattered across Hethereau, the fish market rotates 3 hot species daily, and each species caps at 2 sales per day — 6 fish sold per day, max, for Scale Coins. A full species-by-spot-by-rarity table is being built into a dedicated GameVika tool and isn't live yet — the breakdown above is real data-verified detail meant to show how deep the system actually goes.

The six properties in the underlying data range from the cheapest starter apartment to the most expensive villa — every price is in Fons and pulled directly from client data, so this is a confirmed figure, not an estimate.

• Wiener Apartments — District: Illusion Town · Price (Fons): 200,000
• Eden Apartments — District: Bridge Crossings · Price (Fons): 1,000,000
• Skyview Halls — District: Miguel District · Price (Fons): 1,400,000
• Golden Capital — District: New Herland District · Price (Fons): 2,000,000
• Pegasus Residence — District: New Herland District · Price (Fons): 7,500,000
• Fenglin Villa — District: Bridge Crossings · Price (Fons): 8,000,000

Furniture totals exactly 343 pieces in the data, attached to two separate stats: Comfort and Fortune, each with 10 tiers — tier 1 needs 100 points, tier 10 needs 1,000, and rewards pay out on a fixed 4-hour cycle rather than instantly on threshold. There's also Anomaly Furniture that triggers special buffs when placed correctly. Inviting a character home (Mint is the one most often mentioned) runs through the Bond affection system rather than as a separate furniture feature.

The underlying data confirms exactly 120 dishes across four rarity tiers, each tied to a buff useful in combat or exploration.

• Blue-tier: Apex, Magi-Puff Whole Wheat Bread, Sakai Melon Bread.
• Purple-tier (rarer): TeaRealm T-Fusion, 0-K Cold Brew.
• Green-tier (common): Cool-lala Spicy Snack.

Cafe by Origen unlocks at a specific Tycoon Level (single community source, not cross-checked): you staff it with 2 employees pulled from your character roster, level up their management skill, decorate to boost popularity (which multiplies revenue), and it restocks every 24 hours — sometimes unlocking a new recipe in the process. It's a passive Fons income that runs in the background without babysitting.

Beyond vehicles, fishing, housing, and food, the city hides a whole lineup of side minigames — and how much is actually confirmed about each one varies a lot.

• Mahjong (麻雀): a tile-exchange tabletop minigame inside the city. The underlying data currently only surfaces the exchange-card side of it; GameVika is still gathering more sources before writing a dedicated rules breakdown rather than guessing at details here.
• Racing: the community reports 6 race stages (single source, not cross-checked); the raw data is considerably wider, with dozens of tracks and racers. Racing rewards are permanent, so it's worth prioritizing City Stamina here first.
• Pink Paws Heist: unlocks at a higher Tycoon Level and, notably, costs ZERO City Stamina — a good one to slot in whenever you have a spare moment.
• A handful of other activities are scattered around town: a multi-vault bank heist, a claw machine, competitive Tetris, a rhythm segment, and auctions for rare items.

Verdict: if you're only picking two things to do each week, prioritize racing (permanent rewards) and Pink Paws Heist (free on stamina) — leave mahjong and the rest for genuinely idle moments.

City Stamina resets weekly, so the goal is spending it all before the reset, not hoarding it — but the order you spend it in actually matters.

• Prioritize activities with permanent rewards (racing, fishing) before one-off hobbies like decorating or cooking.
• Hunter Exchange converts spare Fons into Annulith or Tri-Keys — meaning city-life also feeds back into both the character gacha board and the Arc (weapon) gacha. Check GameVika's Gacha Board Explained to see exactly what that converted Fons buys you.
• If you're brand new and haven't settled into the daily loop yet, read the Beginner Guide first — the open city is a real resource, not filler content to skip.
• Look up upgrade materials and related items on the Items page, and once you've earned that free Chiz, check the Tier List to see where she lands.

Verdict: treat Hethereau as a parallel farming track alongside the story, not a bonus feature — skipping it means skipping both a free S-class Chiz and a steady weekly source of Annulith and Tri-Keys.