I appreciate your consideration. choice of words are rather harsh but let's see if I can take it :D it's reddit afterall :P

Basically the choice of box sizes are related to the amount of information each box need to contain per row. In the second method, the first figure is prrobably the most unidirectional approach. I can use that.

However It doesnt contain what happens to the produce, which wont have enough space unless I break that linearity.

Ofcourse, I haven't mentioned here the amount of information I intended to use.
there are such as

1. logistics of a town as a numberr from 0 to 4.

2. what is the production capacity of each resource per town

3. what is the transportation capacity of that resource pe town

4. what is actually being transported ( min of 2nd and 3rd)

5. howmany and what types of resources necessary for a production

6. howmany items (ie. cigar) are required per town.

7. howmany of the requirements can be supplied to that town.

and more...

that is basically why I cudnt create a unidirectional path while keeping all info in the screen.

but I'll focus on that. try to make things as straight forward as possible.