The player can also send Spy units into foreign territory to gather further intelligence and to perform various missions of destruction and propaganda. Once the player has reached certain thresholds of espionage investment, the player starts gaining some automatic intelligence benefits over rival civilizations. The new espionage slider allows the player to divert part of their income towards espionage activities against other civilizations. This corporation is named for Sid Meier, creator of the Civilization series.Įspionage's importance in Civilization IV has been raised to compare with that of scientific research, culture, income from taxes, etc. This corporation uses Fish, Crabs, Clams or Rice to provide extra food and culture to cities. requires the discovering of the Medicine tech and the use of a Great Merchant to build its headquarters. It consumes Coal, Iron, Copper, Gold or Silver and increases a city's production. corporation's headquarters can be built with a Great Engineer. The corporation consumes Gold, Silver or Gems to generate treasury income and culture.
Civilized Jewelers requires the Mass Media tech and needs a Great Artist to create its headquarters. Its headquarters can be created with a Great Scientist. A Great Engineer can create a Creative Constructions headquarters. 
Creative Constructions provides extra production and culture in exchange for obsolete strategic resources like Iron, Copper, Stone, or Marble. The player can build its headquarters with a Great Merchant. Cereal Mills provides additional food for a city in the form of cereal, in exchange for Corn, Rice, or Wheat. Standard Ethanol Company offers the player, after the use of a Great Scientist to build its headquarters, the possibility to provide Oil in exchange for Corn, Sugar, or Rice. The following seven Corporations appear in the game: The Corporations are not directly based on real-life corporations, unlike Religions however, some of the options are clear references to real companies such as General Mills or Standard Oil. Players can block foreign corporations from operating in their cities by adopting the Mercantilism civic, and they can block all corporations, even their own, by adopting the State Property civic. Corporations can be spread like religions (using the Executive unit as a missionary) to other cities, including foreign cities, so long as they have access to at least one resource particular to that corporation any city hosting a Corporation branch must pay a maintenance fee for its services, but the owner of the Corporate Headquarters receives bonus gold for each branch. The more instances of resources they consume, the more food, production, commerce, or resources they supply. Each Corporation consumes specific resources, and supplies alternate resources or benefits in return. Each of the seven available Corporations requires a particular type of Great Person, a particular additional technology, and access to particular resources to build the Corporate Headquarters and found that Corporation each of the seven Corporations can be founded only once per game. 
New game options: Beyond the Sword offers various new game options, like new world-types and the option to play any leader-civilization combination.Ĭorporations become available with discovery of the Corporation technology.
Expanded diplomatic victory: It is now possible to achieve diplomatic victories much earlier in the game, and to defy resolutions. Expanded space victory: Obtaining a space victory is now more difficult and requires more strategy and decision-making than before. Advanced starts: This new option allows the player to start the game in any era by purchasing components for an already-developed nation. Random events: New random events such as natural disasters, pleas for help, or demands from their citizens will challenge players to overcome obstacles in order for their civilizations to prosper. 
Espionage: Now available much earlier in the game, this expanded feature offers players many new ways to spy on opponents, stir citizen unrest and defend their government's secrets.Each corporation provides benefits scaled on the amount of resources unique to a particular corporation. Corporations: A new gameplay feature, similar to religion, allows players to create corporations and spread them throughout the world.
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