User Guide

Once you have chosen the item to be produced, the production box changes
size to indicate the resource cost of your selection and the name or the icon of
the new item appears at the top of the box.
If you are producing an item that is no longer available from the menu, that
production continues even after the item is completed. However, if you change
production while producing an obsolete item, you loose the ability to return to
producing it in this city.
Some Wonders on the Production menu may be marked with an asterisk (*)
before their name. This indicates that the Wonder has been made obsolete by the
advance of technology, but you may still build it.
If you are building a Wonder and another civilization completes it before you
can, change production in the city where the Wonder was being built or the city
will continue building it forever. You are taken to you city’s display in order to
make the production change.
Rush Jobs: You may rush completion of
a partially built item by paying to
complete it immediately. To rush
completion for the IBM/DOS version,
click the Buy button at the top right of
the box. For the Windows version,
choose the option “Rush Job” from the
City menu or press the B key. A dialog
box then opens showing how much
money is required to finish the object by
the end of the turn. Choose whether to
rush the item or not. To speed the
completion of an item in this manner costs at least 2 coins per missing resource. If
no resources have gone into an item, i.e., the production box is empty, the cost of
a rush job is doubled.
Items completed by rush jobs are available at the beginning of your next turn,
so there is no advantage for rushing items that would complete on the next turn
anyway. To judge whether an item can be completed next turn without rushing,
compare the surplus resources the city is generating to the number needed for
completion. For very expensive items, it may be useful to consult your City Status
advisor from the Advisors menu for an exact count of the remaining cost.
Production Box
Change Button
Buy
Button
Surplus
Resources
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Item Being Produced
population, the people don’t starve so long as food
is available for use in the storage box. Each turn,
any food shortage is subtracted from food in the
box. If the box is empty and the city still has a
food shortfall, one point of population starves and
disappears.
The Granary improvement has the effect of
speeding population growth. When a city has a
Granary, the storage box only half empties when it
overflows and creates more people. The box
empties only to the granary line. In addition, a Granary protects the city from
starvation during a Famine disaster.
Production Box
Into this box go any surplus resources generated by your city each turn. Surplus
resources are those not needed to maintain existing units and are shown to the
right of the break in the resource line in the city resources window, if present.
Resources accumulate in the box until it fills, thereby completing the unit or
improvement being built.
The item being built is noted by its icon, if it is a unit, or its name if it is an
improvement or Wonder. The items available for building depend on the
technology your civilization has achieved at the moment. The size of the
production box grows or shrinks, depending on the number of resources required
to build each item. You may change the item being built before it is completed at
any time and the resources already invested go into the new item. You may also
speed the completion of an item by paying for a rush job.
Change Production: For the IBM/DOS version, click the Change button to
open the Production menu that shows the items that you can produce. For the
Windows version, either choose the option “Change Production” from the City
menu or double click the LMB on the name or icon of the item currently being
produced. Then choose the new item to be produced from those available in the
Production menu. Before making your choice you may read the Civilopedia entry
for any item on the list. For the IBM/DOS version, select the item you wish to
read about and press the Alt + H keys, or click on the item with the RMB. For
the Windows and Macintosh versions, click on the Help button.
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