Cleopatra Bids You Welcome
Cleopatra, the official Expansion Pack for Pharaoh, adds four new campaigns to Pharaoh, spanning from the late New Kingdom to the end of the Ptolemaic period when Cleopatra VII, Egypt’s last pharaoh, reigned. Cleopatra adds several new features to all of the missions in Pharaoh, including more shortcut keys, faster Pyramid construction, more control over the number and type of messages you receive during play, and the ability to play any mission in Pharaoh in any order you choose. The gods have a new arsenal of plagues at their disposal to punish cities that displease them. And don’t leave unguarded burial provisions in Pyramids, Mastabas, Mausoleums, or the new Royal Burial Tombs, for in Cleopatra, tomb robbers will strike!
Installing and Playing Cleopatra
First and foremost, you must have the retail version of Pharaoh installed on your computer before installing Cleopatra.
To install Cleopatra, insert the Cleopatra CD into your CD-ROM drive. Windows’
AutoPlay function should start, and you’ll see a screen with four buttons: Install, Uninstall, Play and Quit. Click on “Install” to get started. If AutoPlay does not work on your computer, find the icon for your CD-ROM drive, double click on it, and then double click on the file called “Setup.exe” to start the installation process.
You’ll be presented with a choice of install sizes. Each size offers all the features of the game, but the largest size offers the best game performance. Take into consideration your computer’s resources, and choose the install size that best suits your needs.
After you choose an install size, simply follow the on-screen directions to complete the installation. Installing Cleopatra should only take about five to ten minutes.
To play Cleopatra, click on Windows’ Start button, find your Sierra directory and choose Cleopatra. Or, insert Cleopatra into your computer’s CD-ROM drive and choose “Play.” To play Cleopatra, you must have the Cleopatra CD in your computer’s CD-ROM drive.
Shortcut Keys
The following shortcut keys, in addition to the ones listed in the Pharaoh manual, are available in all missions:
H |
Hides (or displays) cliff terrain |
X |
Toggles Income Tax overlay |
Y |
Toggles the Malaria Risk overlay |
Z |
Toggles the Disease Risk overlay |
Ctrl+F1 |
Creates F1 bookmark at current map location |
Ctrl+F2 |
Creates F2 bookmark at current map location |
Ctrl+F3 |
Creates F3 bookmark at current map location |
F1 |
Goes to F1 bookmark map location |
F2 |
Goes to F2 bookmark map location |
F3 |
Goes to F3 bookmark map location |
Choose a Mission
The “Choose a Mission” button replaces Pharaoh’s “Relive Family History” button. Selecting “Choose a Mission” displays a screen listing all the campaigns, and you can play any campaign you wish in any order. Alternatively, pressing the “Individual
Missions” button displays a chronological list of all missions in the game, allowing you to play any single mission. If the selected mission has been played, your score in that mission and the mission summary are displayed. If you are new to Pharaoh, it would be wise to begin with the Pre-Dynastic Period and Archaic Period campaigns. These campaigns contain valuable tutorials that will help you master
Pharaoh and Cleopatra.
Notification Control
“Popup Messages” has been added to the Options Menu that gives you control over how you receive messages during play. The dialog box displays the following:
Flood Messages |
Price Changes |
Population Messages |
Trade Level Changes |
Compliance Now Possible |
Wage Changes |
Kingdom Standing Climbs |
Disease Strikes |
Festivals |
Malaria |
Minor Blessings |
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When clicked, the name of the event turns yellow. A “yellow” event no longer displays a dialog box during play that has to be clicked shut. Instead, a passing message appears briefly along the top of the map. Don’t be surprised by one of
these selections: if you highlight the “Compliance Now Possible” goods are automatically removed from your Storage Yard and sent requesting city!
Beautification
Cleopatra offers four choices of each size of statue. You can choose
among the statues and decide which direction the statue should face by pressing the “R” key.
Major Plagues
Four Major Plagues can strike your city: River of Blood, Plague of Frogs, Hailstorm, and Plague of Locusts. An angry god may send a Major Plague to your city, or they could happen for no reason at all. For more detailed information about Plague and the new Major Plagues, see the in-game help topic entitled “Plagues.”
Faster Pyramid Construction
All types of Pyramid (brick, stepped, bent, and regular) and Mastabas can now be built more rapidly if you pay devoted homage to the gods in a mission. In missions where Pyramids or Mastabas are present, any blessing from one of the five gods may be converted into a boost to the early stages of your monument construction project. Select whether or not you wish to play with this feature by using the "Pyramid Speedup" entry on the Options menu.
Monuments
The new monuments you can build in Cleopatra missions include four types of Royal Burial Tombs (small, medium, large and grand), the Temple of Abu Simbel, the Pharos Lighthouse, Alexandria’s Great Library and the Caesareum.
Cliffs
The cliffs in the Valley of the Kings and at Abu Simbel provide good sites to build Royal Burial Tombs and the Temple of Abu Simbel. No other structure can be built on cliffs. People also cannot pass over this rugged terrain and must walk around it.
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