User Guide

name on the Main Screen’s “score box.” This will display the
leader’s attitude and the reasons why they feel that way.
Refusing to Talk
Sometimes a particularly angry leader won’t speak to you at all.
This occurs most often when your civilizations are at war.
Check back again in several turns – by then he or she may have
cooled off enough to be willing to speak, especially if the mil-
itary situation has changed.
OPENING DIPLOMACY
You can open diplomacy from the Foreign Advisor screen [F4],
or by clicking on the leader’s name in the “score box” on the
main screen. Occasionally, a leader might open negotiations
with you – you can agree or refuse to see the other leader as
you like. When diplomacy begins, the Diplomacy Screen
appears.
DIPLOMATIC OPTIONS
When diplomacy opens, you (and the other leaders) usually
have several choices available:
Declare War
The polite way to open hostilities.
Offer Peace
Available only if you’re at war.
Trade
Try to trade stuff with the other civilization.This takes you to
the Trade Table (see following page).
Review Ongoing Deals
Some “annual” deals continue over time (see below). This
option lets you review any such deals you have in place with
the leader.
Exit
End the diplomatic session.
100
MAKING TRADE OFFERS
On the Trade Table, all of your tradable items are listed in the
right-hand column, while the other leader’s stuff is in the left-
hand column.To make an offer, click on one (or more) items
in your column, and one (or more) items in the other leader’s
column, and then click on the “make offer” button. If the
leader agrees, the deal is done. If not, you can exit diplomacy
or try another deal.
If you click only on an item in the other leader’s column but
not on anything in your column, you are “demanding tribute:”
ordering the leader to give you the item for free. He may
refuse, of course, and his opinion of you will probably decline.
If you click only on an item in your column but none in the
other leader’s, you are giving the leader that item for free, as a
“goodwill gesture.” Leaders never refuse goodwill gestures.
Goodwill gestures often cause the leader to raise his or her
opinion of you.
RESPONDING TO OFFERS
When another leader makes you an offer, you must choose to
refuse or accept the offer. If you accept, the trade occurs imme-
diately. If you decline, the other leader may ask you to make a
counter-offer, may end diplomacy, or may declare war on you.
101
Civ4_man_Part2.qxp 9/27/05 12:33 PM Page 100