User Guide

Advice: Every advisor offers advice on an ongoing basis.You might find it useful, so
pay attention.
Done:This button tells your advisor that you’re finished and want to return to the Map
screen. If you haven’t chosen an advance to research, he’ll warn you about that.
Change age: There can be two Change Age buttons, one for the past and one for the
future. Click either of these to switch to the tree for that age.
Advances: Each of these boxes lists one of the civilization advances that it’s possible to
research, and also includes icons representing any units, improvements, or Wonders of
the World the advance makes possible.You can take a look at the Civilopedia entry for
any advance by right-clicking on the advance.The Civilopedia entries for the units,
improvements, and Wonders are also just a click away.When you decide which advance
you’re most interested in pursuing, just click on it. Any other advances that you need
to research in order to reach your goal are selected for you and queued up.To establish
a research queue manually,select the first advance (#1),then hold down the [Shift] key
and select others, in the order you want them researched.
Advisors: As on every advisor’s screen, the icons for the other advisors appear to one
side. Click on any one to go to that advisor’s report.
Note that it is possible to continue making advances beyond the list that defines civi-
lization up to the present day.These continuing advances are called Future Technology,
and each one you acquire adds to your Civilization Score.
Civilopedia
The Civilopedia is an in-game encyclopedia.To open it, click the Civilopedia icon on
the Map Screen.You can also see a specific entry in the Civilopedia by clicking any
hyperlinked text (it’s usually blue and underlined) in the game.
The entries under each topic appear alphabetically, and each includes detailed infor-
mation about the item, its historical importance, and its significance in the game.The
entries are also hyperlinked to each other for cross-reference purposes.
City improvements:This option filters the list to include only the structures you can
build in a city to improve it.
Game concepts: This option includes all the information not covered under any of
the other focused topic lists,including things like Pollution,Disbanding,and Fortresses.
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