User Guide

Roads aren’t the only way to connect your cities.The Harbor and Airport city improve-
ments act as roads over the sea and through the sky. Any two cities that both have an
Airport are considered connected.Two cities that both have a Harbor on the same body
of water and an explored sea path between them are also connected.(Sea trading requires
the Astronomy advance, and Ocean trading requires Magnetism or Navigation.) These
connections are affected by enemy territory.
One last thing deserves mention.You can trade strategic resources and luxuries with
other civilizations,but only if their capital is included in a trade network with your cap-
ital.That is, your capital cities must be connected to each other.
Research Rate
When you start a new game,a portion of your income is already dedicated to research.
To change the proportions of tax income versus science funding versus entertainment
spending,open the Domestic Advisor’s screen.Use the [+] and [-] buttons on opposite
sides of the Science Ratio bar to move the rate in 10% increments.A notation near the
bar lists your treasury’s income and outflow per turn. Finally, another entry calculates
how many turns it will take to achieve a new advance.
If you are interested in focusing on civilization advances, you might want to increase
the amount of scientific research. If you rapidly build city improvements and units,you
might want to increase your taxes to cover the maintenance and support costs. Exper-
iment with different rates to see what levels of income and science work well for your
style of ruling.
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Both these
cities are
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the luxury.