User Guide

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TREASURY
This figure reports the amount of gold currently in your treasury. If it increases each turn,
you’ve got a surplus; if it decreases each turn, you’re operating at a deficit.
TRADE BALANCE
The figures that appear here represent the percentages you’ve set for the spending of your
trade income. They are, in order: taxes, luxuries, and research. (Note: multiply the number
shown by 10 to get the actual percentage.) Each of these three by-products of trade has its
benefits. As time passes and cities grow, you might have to adjust the trade rates to
provide a minimum amount of taxes and science research while providing more luxuries
to keep the population sufficiently happy. To adjust trade rates, pull down the K
INGDOM
menu and select the TAX RATE option.
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
The research indicator is a graphic representation of your progress toward the next
advance. The beaker notes your progress, and it changes as you get closer to your current
research goal. Once the new discovery is reported and your scientists are sent off to study
something else, this indicator is reset.
ENVIRONMENT
If there is any danger of global warming, the environment indicator graphically represents
the extent of this risk. With the first case of pollution, the sun icon appears, at its lowest
setting. If pollution continues, the sun changes to indicate the “progress” of pollution. If
pollution is not brought under control when the indicator is at its highest, the planet suffers
a bout of global warming, then the indicator reverts to a setting that reflects the
new equilibrium.
Pollution and environmental problems can also be caused by nuclear reactor
meltdowns and fallout from nuclear weapons. For more information on pollution and
global warming, see Planetary Caretaking.
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