Exclusivity is only worth something if it is written down somewhere you can check. When
you claim a city, the row is written the moment your payment clears, and the availability
checker reads that same row. Two people can both see a city as free; only one of them gets
the row. That is the whole mechanism — there is no bidding, no renewal auction, and no tier
that buys you more of the map.
For the businesses in the catalog that are not built yet, there is no row to claim. So
instead we write down who asked, and for which town. When enough people ask for the same
business, that is the one that gets built next — and the people who asked get the first
offer on their own city before it is listed publicly.
It does not mean you would be the only person in town allowed to do the work. We cannot
grant that and nobody can. Anyone is free to run their own sales, and other companies may
operate near you. What you get is exclusivity within the platform, and the tools and
training that come with it.
Waiting counts appear only above three. A registry that says one person is
waiting argues against the thing it is meant to evidence, and an invented number would be
worse than either. Below that, this section carries the mechanism on its own.