

The biggest strategic factor is Civilization's signature “Wonders of the World” improvement these unique city projects are as numerous as they are expensive, so building them all yourself is next to impossible on any reasonable challenge difficulty. This gives you a bit of flexibility in your strategy, though there's only a limited amount of optimization-it's not rock-paper-scissors units progress with each era in a straight-forward manner-it's more about when you get one of one type over one of the other. You're presented with opportunities for peace and trade or war and conquest.Īdvances are less linear than RTS games and improvements are permanent. You research technologies, which allow you to build better units and new city improvements. The premise is simple but has become timeworn: you take a faction from Stone Age primitivism to either global conquest or interplanetary colonization. While there had been earlier games that incorporated many of the features, such as conquest, tech trees, and city management, Sid Meier's landmark game brought them all together and with the necessary oomph and flair to appeal to a large demographic beyond just wargamers that gave it a staying power as one of the most dominant and recognizable PC franchises in history. The two screenshots below show the use of this hack for Rome (unlimited happiness, limited gold) and Spain (unlimited gold and happiness) in Deity.Sid Meier's Civilization was a watershed for the 4x genre before the genre even had its present name.

Once you reload you will no longer be able to see resources you have not discovered the technology for, but that's all in the spirit of the gameĬalculate the amount of times you need to use ctrl+z and then type it in quick succession, then use escape to cycle through the notifications quickly You may continue playing without saving and reloading, but you will receive no notifications to choose science, production, social policies etc. After you have the required amount of happiness/gold, save and reload. Simply repeat the process for unlimited happiness and gold (if spain). If you are Spain you will gain approximately 500 more gold. If you press ctrl+z again, no matter what civ you will "rediscover" those natural wonders, and regain the happiness benefit (the game will say you have -7 natural wonders yet to discover, say). If you are spain, you will get a couple of thousand gold from this.

Simply press ctrl+z (the first time you press it it will reveal the whole map, introduce you to all city states, all empires, reveal all resources and discover all natural wonders. Unlimited happiness applies to all civs, while unlimited gold only applies to Spain. The following (as far as I have tested) works on all difficulties at any point in a game with one or more natural wonders, and I cannot find it mentioned elsewhere on the forum.
