User Guide

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SCENARIO PARAMETERS
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This is a catch-all that includes some powerful tools for setting up scenarios. Most of
these options have little or no use during a game already in progress.
TECH PARADIGM affects how long it takes to research technological advances. The default
is 10/10. By lowering the numerator, you decrease the time necessary to discover
new advances; the fastest you can allow research to progress is 1/10. Conversely,
increasing the numerator makes scientific progress slower.
TURN YEAR INCREMENT allows you to decide how much time passes with each game turn.
If you leave this at zero, Civilization II uses the default increment, which changes
with time as described in the manual. Any positive integer sets a number of years
to pass per turn; a negative integer sets a number of months to pass per turn.
STARTING YEAR determines the year or month in which the scenario will begin (month if
you’ve set the TURN YEAR INCREMENT to a number of months, year if you’ve set it to a
number of years). Any positive number is AD, and any negative number is BC.
MAXIMUM TURNS allows you to set the length of the game in turns.
TOGGLE SCENARIO FLAG tells Civilization II whether or not you want to save this game
setup as a scenario. Note that the CHEAT menu option SAVE AS SCENARIO automatically
sets this toggle for you.
WIPE ALL GOODY BOXES removes all of the villages of minor tribes from the world,
permanently.
RESTORE ALL GOODY BOXES recreates all of the minor tribe villages in the world, except for
those which were originally on a terrain square that is now occupied by a city or unit.
REVEAL WHOLE MAP makes the scenario take place in a known world. The entire map,
excluding enemy units but including their cities, will be visible from the beginning of
the game.
COVER WHOLE MAP makes the scenario take place in an unexplored world, the
Civilization standard.
SET SCENARIO NAME allows you to give your scenario a title.
TOGGLE TOTAL WAR FLAG silences the senate in all republics and democracies. Set this to
‘1’ to force the assumption that there is a war going on at the outset of the scenario,
and that the usual senatorial meddling in foreign affairs has been effectively stifled
for the duration.
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