User Guide

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Other Countries’
Provinces
When you click on a province that is owned by
another nation, the right half of the interface
will be nearly identical to the Province Man-
agement interface. You can review all of the
province details, religion, income, and trade
information about the province, but, because
you don’t own it, you cannot send missionaries
to convert the population.
The left half of the interface no longer dis-
plays a city view, and will show the Diplomacy
interface instead. You cannot see specific de-
tails about what improvements another coun-
try has made to it provinces, although you may
see small icons appear on the Main Map to in-
dicate that another country is building an im-
provement, or that a province contains a manu-
factory. We’ll discuss the use of the Diplomacy
interface in the chapter on Diplomacy.
Unoccupied Provinces
A third type of interface will appear when you
click on a province that has not yet been colo-
nized and thus has no current owner. Again,
the right side of the interface contains most of
the same details about the province.
The right side now shows the Colonization in-
terface which is used to send colonists to try to
establish a new settlement. Even after you have
begun to colonize a province, this same inter-
face will continue to appear when you click on
the province until the population has risen to
a sufficiently high level for a full-fledged colo-
nial city to evolve. We will discuss this in the
Exploration and Colonization chapter.