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Sid Meier’s Civilization VII

What can I do after starting:

Learn what to do after placing your first settler in Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, including resource distribution, advice menu, and revolution options.

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Learn what to do after placing your first settler in Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, including resource distribution, advice menu, and revolution options.

Walkthrough
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    Access the menus by clicking anywhere on the screen with the A button.
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    Distribute Resources: This is recommended as a first action. You start with a distribution of 0.5.5 (luxuries, taxes, science). You can change this, for example, to 0.0.10, or prioritize taxes for raising money. Luxuries are best saved for after changing to a republic government.
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    View Advice: This menu provides insights into various aspects of your game:
    • City Status: Shows food, build, and trade points for all your cities, and what they are currently building.
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    Military: Lists all your current units and, on a separate screen, units you have lost.
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    Intelligence: Displays your game data, including your government type, cash amount, war units, name, and capital. It also shows your civilization's status (e.g., friendly, aggressive).
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    Attitude: Provides a survey of citizen happiness (happy, normal, unhappy percentages) and lists cities, noting if they have marketplaces, banks, cathedrals, temples, and colosseums.
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    Trade: Shows turns until the next technological advance, income from taxes, expenses on buildings, and a breakdown of food, build, and trade points from each city. You can also view the cost and quantity of buildings.
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    Science: Lists all learned expertises, the one currently being learned, and the science points needed for the next advance.
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    Revolution: Use this to change your government. A revolution will occur, followed by a period of turns before you can select a new government. It is advised to learn a government through expertise or acquire the Pyramids before attempting a revolution.
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    Information: Access more detailed information:
    • Top Five Cities: Ranks cities based on wonders, happy citizens, and total citizens.
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    Score: Tracks your score for spaceship games. For conqueror scores, you must eliminate all enemy civilizations. Spaceship game scores are based on wonders, spaceship construction progress, learned future techs, and turns at peace.
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    Demographics: Displays rankings for various aspects like approval rating, population, GNP, manufacturing goods, land area, literacy, disease, pollution, life expectancy, family size, military service, annual income, and productivity. To see rankings where you are not first, you must have an embassy established.
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    Seven Wonders: Lists all 21 wonders in the game and the city where each is located. A 'Jump' menu is available to locate them.
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    Space Ship: If you are building a spaceship, its progress is shown here, with an option to launch it when complete.
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    Jump: Find lost cities by name in this list.
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    World Map: View the entire world on one screen.
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    Option: Adjust game settings:
    • Instant advice: Toggle tutorial messages on or off for any difficulty.
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    End of turn: If turned OFF, the end-of-turn button will not appear, preventing final adjustments before enemy moves. It is recommended to keep this ON.
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    Animation: Turn off building animations if they become repetitive.
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    Music: Turn off in-game music.
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    Enemy moves: If turned OFF, enemy moves appear faster but one at a time. It is recommended to keep this ON.
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    Save: Save your game progress.
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    Retire: Quit the game. Your score can be published if it is among the top 5.

Above the main menu, you will always see your chosen name, the current year, your cash amount, your lightbulb (indicating turns needed for expertise), your civilization name, your trade distribution, and your population.

Tips
  • Prioritize science early by distributing trade to 0.0.10 to learn new technologies faster.
  • Keep an eye on the 'Intelligence' and 'Attitude' sections of the Advice menu to monitor your civilization's status and citizen happiness.
  • Use the 'Jump' menu to quickly locate cities if you lose track of them on the minimap (a small map usually in the corner of the HUD (heads-up display — the on-screen icons showing health, ammo and the minimap)).
  • Consider turning 'End of turn' ON to ensure you have time for final adjustments before the turn ends.

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