🧳 You Just Landed Somewhere New. Does Any of This Still Count?
You've spent months turning your home city into a filled-in map. Beginner playlists cleared, drops collected, a completion percentage you're actually proud of. Then a road trip lands you three states away, or a job relocates you entirely, and you open Spota expecting the app to feel like a stranger.
It doesn't, exactly. But it also doesn't work the way people assume. Some of what you've built is yours everywhere. Some of it is tied to the ground you built it on.
Here's the actual breakdown, piece by piece, so you're not guessing the first time you open the map somewhere new.
📈 City Completion Is Local. It Doesn't Travel With You.
Start with the one that trips people up the most: your city completion percentage is tracked per city, not per account. It's a running score of how much of that specific city's map you've actually played through, so it can't just transfer somewhere you've never opened a playlist.
Land in a new city and your completion there starts at zero, same as anyone else's first day. That's not a penalty. It's the same reason the app feels alive in the first place: a city's completion reflects real activity in that city, from everyone playing it, and yours has to be earned there like everyone else's.
The upside is you're not actually starting over in any way that matters. You're starting a new map, not erasing the old one. Go back home next month and your original city's completion is exactly where you left it.
🏆 XP, Badges, and Rank Are Yours. Those Travel Everywhere.
Where city completion is local, XP is account-wide. Every drop, Photo Op, and playlist step you've ever completed, anywhere, stacks into the same running total. Badges you've unlocked stay unlocked. Your overall standing doesn't reset because you crossed a state line.
So the way to think about it: city completion is the scoreboard for this specific map. XP and badges are the scoreboard for you. Traveling doesn't touch the second one at all, and it actively grows it, since a new city usually means fresh playlists and drops you haven't touched yet, which means more XP on top of what you already had.
🚗 Your Garage Comes With You. Always.
Your car's Garage profile, mods, progress pics, performance history, isn't tied to a city at all. It's tied to the car. Pull into a new city and your build's entire timeline is sitting there exactly as you left it, ready to keep logging updates no matter where you're parked.
This is also why the Garage is what photographers and other users see when they check out your car on Spota, wherever they run into it. A build you've been documenting for a year doesn't look like a stranger's car just because the city changed. Spota tip: log a build update from the road if something's different, a new set of stickers, road grime that's basically a personality trait at this point. The Garage is meant to be a record, not just a hometown snapshot.
🏁 Clubs Are Local by Design. You'll Want a New One.
Clubs are built around local, active crews, so your home city's club doesn't automatically plug you into whatever's happening somewhere new. If you're relocating for good, browsing Clubs in your new city is one of the fastest ways to actually meet people instead of playing solo in an unfamiliar place.
If it's a short trip, that's fine too. You don't have to join a new Club just to run a playlist or grab a Photo Op somewhere you're only visiting for a weekend. Clubs matter most when you're actually going to be around long enough to show up more than once.
❓ Quick Answers
Do I need a new account for a new city? No. One account, every city. You're always logged into the same profile, same Garage, same XP total, no matter where the app finds you.
Will my old city's playlists still be there when I go back? Yes. Nothing about your progress un-completes itself. Your completion percentage in a city you've already played only moves one direction, even while you're somewhere else racking up a fresh one.
What if my new city barely has anything live yet? Same deal as any early-stage city: the app still works, there's just less built out yet. Early completion in a quiet city can genuinely matter more than the fiftieth playlist in a city that's already packed.
Does traveling hurt my local ranking back home? No. Your home city's leaderboard reflects the completion and activity you already banked there. Going quiet for a week on a trip doesn't erase what you already earned, it just means you're not adding to it until you're back.
Moving cities or just passing through, the parts of Spota that are actually yours, your XP, your badges, your Garage, follow you everywhere. The only thing that resets is the map itself, and that's kind of the point. A new city is supposed to feel like a new city, not a rerun of the one you already filled in.
Go fill in the next one.
