User Guide

game playing pieces, called units. The blinking rectangle that looks like a covered
wagon in the center of the world display is your first unit, a Settlers unit. Units of
many different types may eventually be available to you and they can perform a
number of different actions. For example, pull down the Orders menu from the
menu bar to see the various orders that you can give to your Settlers unit. Don’t
give the unit any orders yet. The Settlers unit is your tribe. It is on the verge of
forming its first city and converting from a group of nomadic wanderers into a
civilization.
The world map is almost entirely
black. This is because your tribe
knows almost nothing about its
world. You don’t know the extent of
the continent you are on, the extent
of the seas, or the whereabouts of
other tribes and civilizations. As you
continue to play, you may learn these
things. When units move around the
map they discover new lands and seas. When this happens, the black covering is
pulled back from the map to reveal what geography is actually present.
The small world window shows the entire world of
your game. The white rectangular box in this
window shows the exact part of the world which is
now visible in the large map display. When you
begin a new game, the small world window, like the
large map display, is almost entirely black. As your
units move around and discover new areas, more of
the world will become visible in both of these
windows.
The status window reports information of various kinds about your civilization.
Most of it can be ignored for now. The lower part of the status window reports
the following information about your Settlers unit, which is currently active and
waiting to be given orders (blinking): your tribe’s name, the type of unit that is
active, how many movement points the unit has left to spend, its home city
(none in the case of your first Settlers unit), and the type of terrain it occupies.
Combustion
(Refining & Explosives)
Cruiser Unit
Windows City Display
CIVILIZATION TUTORIAL
This tutorial describes playing Civilization in the Windows version. Because this
is so close to the Macintosh version, players of both should be able to easily
follow the discussion. Owners of the IBM/DOS version will find that their game
is slightly different in look and play, but close enough that the tutorial should not
be difficult to learn from.
Getting Started
Click on the Civilization icon to load the game
and then watch the various title screens. To skip
the title screens, press the Enter key. This speeds
the loading process but it still takes some time.
When the game is loaded, the Pre-Game Options
menu appears. For purposes of this tutorial,
choose the option “Play on Earth.” As you play,
you should be able to recognize the part of the
Earth you occupy.
A series of additional menus then appear. Make the following choices, in order,
to start a game for the tutorial:
Difficulty Level: Chieftain (the easiest level)
Level of Competition: 3 Civilizations (the lowest number
that you can choose)
Pick your tribe: Choose any named tribe
Your Name: (type in your name, and then press Enter)
Having made these choices, the game begins.
Looking Around
When the new game begins, you are looking at the large map display window
and two smaller windows to its side: the world window and the status
window. Across the top of the world window is a menu bar listing a number of
menus that you can open.
While playing Civilization, you spend most of your time looking at the map
display. This is where you direct and watch the movement and combat of your
Code of Laws
(Alphabet)
Courthouse
Windows Map Display
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