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Chapter 2: Infrastructure

The Governor
The governor is a great option for new or inexperienced players. Simply put, the governor automates a lot of the micromanagement involved in running and building a successful city. When activated, the governor will decide which units and city improvements to build. For the most part, the governor makes sound decisions and will greatly help you expand your empire.

	A governor can be useful when you are just learning the game, but make sure you give it clear orders so it doesn't build Tree Farms when you need Impact Rovers.

Activating the Governor
By default, the governor is toggled off at the beginning of the game. To enable the Governor, you must click on a city, so the City Detail screen appears. Across the top of this window, you will see a large button in the middle labeled "Governor." Clicking this button will tell the governor to take over control of the city and begin building units and improvements. While this may seem rather vague, you can refine what the governor does by toggling the four buttons: Explore, Discover, Build, and Conquer.

Explore
When you toggle the Explore button, the governor of the city in question will focus on creating scouts, colony pods, and transports. No effort will be taken to manufacture city improvements. Setting the governor to Explore plays a critical role in the early part of the game, when venturing out and exploring your surroundings is of utmost importance. When you feel you have a nice chunk of territory explored, you should return to the City Detail screen and assign the governor a new role.

Discover
When the governor is set to Discover, he will guide your city by engaging in new secret projects, developing new military prototypes, creating probe teams (used for covert activity against enemy cities), and constructing network nodes (increases research by 50 percent). A city should be set to Discover when it has already attained a sizable defense force and is well protected. Ultimately, the Discover option will lead to scientific research and the construction of city enhancements that promote further research opportunities.

The Governor, continued

 
 

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