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Production

When the map has been generated you will be asked to set the production for your home city.  Any time you conquer a city you will also be asked to set its production.   If you wish to change or review  the production of a city you may double click on it.

Production for a city is set using a standard dialog box.  You can choose to produce a unit, supply or technology level by selecting the corresponding radio button.  If the Repeat box is checked then the city will keep producing units of that type forever.  Otherwise it will produce the number specified and then ask for new production demands.  The number of days needed to produce a unit of a given type is shown in brackets next to its name.  If the city is producing a unit already this will show two numbers, indicating how long until the current unit is done and the time it would take to build from Scratch.  For example [7/8] indicates that a unit requiring 8 days to produce will be done in 7 days.  (This means that the city has been working on it for 1 day.)

Depending upon the current rule set supplies will be consumed when units are produced or simply to keep a city functioning.  Technology must reach certain levels in order for some unit types to be built at all.  Higher technology levels enable you (and the machine) to produce units faster, more cheaply or with enhanced capabilities.  Selecting supplies allows you to produce new supplies or increase your technology levels.

The produce next option allows you to define a unit type (or supply) to produce after the current production is finished.  So you can command a city to produce a transport, and then tell it to produce armies afterwards.  The city will keep producing the transport until it is finished and then switch production automatically.  In addition, the produce next option helps simplify the handling of supplies and technology levels.  Normally units that can't be produced because of supply or technology levels being too low will be dimmed and can't be selected.  When the produce next option is active all units can be selected as long as it can actually be produced or some supply or technology level needed to produce it can be produced.  The game will determine what supplies and technology levels must be available before the selected unit can be built, generate those first and then try to build the unit.  Cities that are not on a coast can't actually build sea units, but using the produce next option you will be able to select them.  In this case only the global supplies and technology levels needed for that unit type will be built, which can then be used by a port city to build the unit faster.

If there are units in the city you can see them listed by clicking on the Show Units button.  (Double clicking on units that are not in a city does the same thing.)  This gives you another dialog with a list of the units in the square.  The show details button from that dialog gives more detailed information about individual units as shown below.

You may set the wake reasons for units produced in the city.  Clicking on the Wake Reasons check box will invoke the Wake Reasons dialog.  For convenience the Production dialog (equivalent to the Production menu command) can be viewed.  You may give the city any name you want, up to 15 characters long.  The city names do not affect the play of the game so you can use them to display visible notes on the map.

You are forced to make a legitimate choice.  The OK will be dimmed if you have not selected a legitimate unit or supply to produce.  The Cancel button will also be dimmed if there was no previous production choice, or if it is not now legal.  In that situation you should select some supply or technology level to produce, or select the produce next option to have one selected automatically.