User Guide

Diplomatic missions: Once you have an embassy with another nation, you can click
the embassy icon (at their capital city) to open a menu of the possible diplomatic activ-
ities.These all cost gold to attempt.
No Diplomats or Spies:That’s right,none.With the change in the way embassies are
established and run,all the major functions of the Diplomat and Spy units have become
redundant.
Espionage: After you’ve discovered Espionage and built the Intelligence Agency,your
embassies can undertake espionage mission for you. See “Espionage” in Chapter 13:
Diplomacy and Trade for the details.
Expanded trading options:You can still trade maps, lump sums of money, advances,
and everything you could before. Now, you can also trade, receive, or demand diplo-
matic agreements,per-turn payments,communications with leaders, luxuries, strategic
resources,Workers, and even cities.
Trade agreements: Trade routes and supply and demand have been integrated into
diplomacy.If you want to set up ongoing commerce with another civilization,you must
do it explicitly during negotiations.You and the other leaders can trade surplus resources
and luxuries in any way you see fit. All trade agreements last 20 turns before coming
up for review (unless war cuts them off).
World Map and Territory Map: You have a new option when trading maps with
other leaders.You can still give or get the same World Map, which includes everything
you’ve explored or been told about—including the locations of all your cities. The
new option is the Territory Map, which gives only the outline of your borders (your
cities’ cultural spheres of influence).
What’s Gone
The experienced Civilization player will notice a few omissions. Some of these have
already been mentioned,but because their effects on strategy are so broad, we thought
they deserved repeating.
Science and entertainment limits: No matter what your form of government, the
only limitation on your level of funding is what you can afford.
Zones of control: The idea that any unit can interdict the terrain squares that sur-
round it has been discarded. This means that units of different nationalities can move
freely around among each other. However, the idea that some military units can take
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