User Guide

PLAYING
Once the automated installation and set-up are complete, the game is ready to play.
To start:
• If you want to see and hear the uninstalled video and multimedia portions of the
game, make sure that the Civilization II CD-ROM is in its drive. (Note that, if you
did not install the Recommended files, there will be no sound effects regardless of
whether the CD is in the drive. There will be some music.)
• If it is not already running, start Windows.
• Now simply double-click on the Civilization II icon (or click Civ2 on the
Windows 95 Start Menu) to start the game.
FEATURES UPDATE: CHANGES TO THE CHEAT MENU
Remember, the CHEAT menu comes with no guarantees—use it at your own risk and don’t
blame Customer Service if they can’t help when it causes problems.
Though it has other uses, the CHEAT menu is intended to supplement the map editing
utility. Once you’ve created a world in which to play, you can use the CHEAT menu options
to further customize the situation. You can create your own game scenarios—and save
them for later play. In combination, the Map Editor and CHEAT menu can give you the same
power as the “Mission Builder” included with many of the best flight simulations.
To this end, the DISCOVER ALL TECHNOLOGIES option described in the manual has been
replaced with the more specific EDIT TECHNOLOGIES. (The shortcut key hasn’t changed; it’s
still
cs6
.) This gives you complete control over the technological status of every
civilization in the game, including yours. One by one, you can select then give or take away
advances. Use the GIVE/TAKE ALL button to bestow every advance there is, except for Future
Tech. Click on it again to ruthlessly strip them all away! Note, however, that some
technologies (IRRIGATION, for one) are known by all civilizations at the dawn of time; you
cannot take these away.
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