User Guide

Entertainment Rate
If your present combination of luxury resources,city improvements,and military police
doesn’t fulfill your need to make your citizens happy, you might want to increase the
amount of income you allocate to providing entertainment to your populace.
To change the proportions of luxury spending versus tax income versus science fund-
ing, open the Domestic Advisor’s screen. Use the [+] and [-] buttons on opposite sides
of the Entertainment Allocation 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 notes
how many “happy faces” the current level of funding creates.
Corruption
Your commerce income from any city is affected by corruption, much as production is
lowered by waste. When an empire sprawls over a wide area, corruption lowers the
total tax intake in cities on the fringes and frontiers.The more sophisticated the gov-
ernment and the smaller the sprawl,the less effect corruption has.Building certain city
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Corruption Commerce