It stops flashing when you click on the Message button. The Message button on the Control Panel blinks when a new, unread message arrives. While turning off the popups does almost entirely eliminate interruptions in your game, itĪlso puts you at considerable risk of missing important notices.
Require you to make an immediate choice (like whether or not to accept a gift). This means that all game messages go directly to your Message box, except for a few that The Help item on the game's menu bar lets you turn "Popup Messages" OFF. You're most likely to notice this if troops disembark onto a flood plain, or if you notice hunters and gatherers skirting the boundary. No one can move to or from the flood plain unless at least a small stretch of road spans The boundary between the flood plain and dry land is steep, slippery and treacherous. Populations in excess of 50,000Īre possible if you build very efficiently. If you do see this message, your only recourse is to resculpt your city for greater efficiency. You build a city of 35,000 or more people. Some of Pharaoh's "Custom Missions," though, let you build much larger cities, and you might reach one of these memory limits if These limits are quite high, and you should never encounter them in the missions Pharaoh has limits on how many buildings, walkers and point-to-point walker routes it can handle. When something new is available, the Control Panel button that accesses In some missions, particularly the early ones, new structures are introduced as the mission unfolds. Toggles between your last selected Overlay and the Normal View Shows the Water Overlay, OR orders the selected ship back to its wharf Shows the "Risks: Problems" Overlay, OR if a military company is selected issues the hold ground in tight formation command The company, OR orders a ship to return to the shipwright for repairs When building a Gatehouse, Temple Complex, or Statue rotates the structure (to help them fit), OR if a military company is selected, rotates Pauses the game, you can't build while paused Orders a selected company or warship to attack any enemy There, OR when a military company is selected issues the "mop up" command Press "M" again to resume normally, or click to build the monument Pressing "M"įreezes the monument's footprint to that location so you can look around to see how it will fit. When you select a monument to build, its image attaches to the cursor and shows you how much land the monument will occupy. Orders a selected ship to hold its positionĬenters the view on a different military unit each time it is pressed, or if a company is already selected puts them in the Loose Formation Shows "Risks: Fire" Overlay, or orders a selected company to return to their fort Orders a selected transport to evade all enemies Shows "Risks: Crime" Overlay, or orders the selected Charioteer company to charge Orders the selected warship to attack all enemies The Keyboard Commands haven't changed much since Caesar III.
These are taken from page 28 in the manual.
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