Mercantilism and the state property civic models can affect corporations, much as religions can be affected by adopting a state religion or freedom to practice. Your company can be spread via executive emissaries to other cities (even foreign ones) and each branch will net the player additional gold.Ī corporation is a hungry beast, eating some of your resources and then granting you other ones and gold. You need a specific technology, resource, and Great Person to found a corporation’s headquarters and then the company itself. Players can create corporations that specialize in certain resources and need to be spread throughout the world. You’ll be introduced to the corporation feature of the game, an element that behaves much like the “religion” aspect. The most obvious new features to the game happen later, when you’re in the modern eras.
New players should cut their teeth on the basic game elements and the early periods of history before they even attempt to get to the modern age and Beyond the Sword’s considerable additions. Beyond the Sword isn’t an expansion pack that I’d recommend for new Civilization IV players.
