User Guide

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LEDGER
The final game feature we will look
at in this manual is your national
ledger. The ledger consists of more
than twenty pages packed full of charts, graphs,
tables, and other useful information. To access
it, click the ledger button on the Special Menus
toolbar.
The pages may be viewed one by one by
clicking the “previous” and “next” buttons at
the bottom of the screen, or you can use the
handy set of bookmark buttons at the top of
the screen to quickly jump to a particular cat-
egory of pages. When you are finished using
the ledger, click the “close” button to return to
the game.
The ledger is very intuitive to use. Not only
is it packed full of information, but it is also
fully hyper-linked to the interfaces within the
game. It would take too long to provide a full
listing of everything you can find and do here,
so we’ll describe one of the pages here, and let
you experiment with the others yourself.
The page shown in the accompanying
graphic is the Country Overview page. This is
the first of five “domestic” pages that are ac-
cessed by clicking the first of the bookmarks at
the top of the ledger, and provides some handy
information about each of your provinces. The
table identifies each province’s name, current
tax and production income, manpower, cul-
ture, religion, trade good, and level of fortifi-
cation. The scrollable list of provinces will in-
clude every province you currently own.
We can sort the province listing by click-
ing on any of the headings on the table. If we
wanted to compare the production income of
our provinces, we would click on the “produc-
tion” heading to sort them from highest to low-
est. Clicking the heading again will reverse the
sort order. Any column that has non-numerical
values will be sorted alphabetically.
We might be curious to find our why Tama-
roa (the second-last province visible on this list)
has such low income values. Instead of closing
the ledger and then trying remember where the