User Guide

person, try creating more of the specialists associated with that
great person (for example, merchants for a great merchant or
artists for a great artist).
Minimap
The standard minimap from the
main game screen also appears on
the city screen, below the Great
Person Points Bar.The minimap will
show you where the city you are looking at is located.
City Management Menu
The small box just to the left of the minimap con-
tains the City Management Menu, which has two
distinct functions. First of all, it contains the
“hurry” production options for the city, and sec-
ondly it holds the city’s governor controls.
The topmost button on the City Management Menu is the
Draft button; clicking on this button will draft a free unit to
help defend the city. Drafting requires the Nationhood civic,
reduces the city’s population, and causes unhappiness, so it
should not be used frivolously.
Below the Draft button are the two hurry production options.
The button on the left requires the Slavery civic and sacrifices
some of the city’s population to complete production.The but-
ton on the right requires the Universal Suffrage civic and
requires the expenditure of gold to hurry production. Each of
these buttons will be lit up only if the appropriate civics are
being employed; otherwise they are greyed-out and cannot be
used. [Roll over] each button to see additional information
about their costs.
The bottom eight buttons allow you to interact with the city’s
governor and issue instructions on how you would like the city
to be run.The button with a hammer in the middle of a circle
is the Production Automation control; by clicking this button,
you give the governor control over production in the city. (Be
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warned that the governor may not make the same choices that
you would!) The circular button to the right of this is the
Citizen Automation control; clicking this button gives the gov-
ernor permission to manage the city’s population points as it
sees best.
The governor will usually try to adopt a balanced mix of food,
production, and commerce, but you can give it further instruc-
tions with the six small buttons at the bottom of the City
Management Menu.The Emphasize Food button tells the gov-
ernor to concentrate on growth, the Emphasize Production
button will focus on providing the maximum number of ham-
mers, and the Emphasize Commerce button will concentrate
on bringing in the most total commerce. Below these are the
Emphasize Research button (which naturally focuses on sci-
ence), Emphasize Great People (which will try to run the max-
imum amount of specialists to bring in more great people), and
finally Avoid Growth (which will halt the city’s growth at the
current level; it may sometimes be preferable to stop a city
from growing and producing unhappy citizens). You can also
combine these buttons to give multiple commands to the gov-
ernor; it is possible to tell the governor to both Emphasize
Great People and Avoid Growth at the same time, for example.
City Build Menu
The City Build
Menu is located
at the bottom of
the city screen,
to the left of the
City Management Menu.This is where you can select what the
city should construct next: a unit, a building, or a wonder.The
City Build menu is scrollable; it contains a list of icons show-
ing everything that the city can build, starting with units and
then proceeding through buildings, wonders, and (eventually)
spaceship parts. Some of these icons may be grayed out, indi-
cating that your city lacks a certain requirement to build it.
[Roll over] over the icon to learn what your city needs in
order to produce it. (You can also [roll over] any of the light-
ed icons to learn more info about them.)
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