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• Developer: Firaxis Games
• Publisher: 2k Games
• Genre: Strategy Turn-Based
• Release: Oct 24, 2014
• ESRB: Everyone 10+

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Codes

MP3 soundtrack

• Note: This requires a program such as 'Dragon Unpacker' that can extract .FPK files. Go to the '/Steam/SteamApps/common/Sid_Meier's_Civilization_Beyond_Earth/Resource/common' folder. Extract the files in the 'MiscData.fpk' archive to get all the music from the game in MP3 format.
• In the Steam version, go your library and Right Click on 'Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth'. Select 'Properties', then select the 'Betas' tab in the window that appears. Type soundtrackplease into the 'Access Code' field and click 'Check Code'. Select the 'Soundtrack' beta from the pull-down menu. Enter the game directory, usually in 'Program Files (x86)Steam

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Orbitals perks

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The following perks are available to Orbitals after enough research has been done in the Technology Web.

• All-Seer: Dark Networks Protects a city from Intrigue.
• Deep Space Telescope Orbital Automation: 25% city Science bonus and discovers 'The Signal'.
• Holomatrix Civil Support: +2 Culture for tiles under its skirt; provides cities within range 50% less intrigue from enemy Covert Agent activity.
• Lasercom Satellite Orbital Networks: 15% city Science bonus.
• Miasmic Condenser Alien Ecology: Generates miasma.
• Miasmic Repulsor Ecology: Clears miasma.
• Orbital Fabricator Geoscaping: +1 Production for tiles under its skirt, adds strategic resources over time.
• Orbital Laser Cybernetics: Ranged attacker: 70 ranged Combat Strength.
• Phasal Transporter Cybernetics: Teleports units from friendly cities to areas under its skirt.
• Planet Carver Astrodynamics: Ranged attacker: 120 ranged Combat Strength.
• Solar Collector Photosystems: +1 Energy for tiles under its skirt, +20% Energy creation in cities.
• Tacnet Hub Communications: +20% Combat Strength to friendly units and +5 HP Healing per turn.
• Weather Controller Climate Control: +1 Food for tiles under its skirt, adds basic resources over time.

Specialists

Specialist workers work inside a building's slots, adding to your city's bonuses.

• Artists: Adds +2 Culture and works on Holosuite, CEL Cradle, and Soma Distillery.
• Engineer: Adds +2 Production and works on Autoplant, Alloy Foundry, and Node Bank.
• Trader: Adds +2 Energy and works on Thorium Reactor, Petrochemical Plant, Field Reactor, Biofuel Plant, and Xenofuel Plant.
• Scientist: Adds +3 Science and works on Xenonursery, Institute, Gene Smelter, and Nanopasture.
• Grower: Adds +2 Food and works on Cloning Plant, Mass Digester, and Civil Creche.
• Unemployed: Adds +1 Production.

Basic resources

The following basic resources provide the indicated bonus.

• Algae: +1 to Food.
• Basalt: +2 to Production.
• Chitin: +1 to Food.
• Copper: +1 to Energy.
• Coral: +1 to Culture.
• Fiber: +1 to Production.
• Fruit: +1 to Food.
• Fungus: +1 to Food.
• Gold: +1 to Culture.
• Resilin: +1 to Production
• Silica: +2 to Science
• Tubers: +1 to Food.

Strategic resources

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Orbital units

Stations

The following stations feature the corresponding resources.

• Adept Blue: 2 Food, 2 Science
• Banu Musa: 4 Science
• Camp Cascade: 2 Food, 2 Energy
• Church of Dawn's Light: 1 Food, 3 Culture
• Far Base One: 2 Science, 2 Energy
• Fort Barca: 2 Production, 2 Energy
• Golden Bell Temple: 1 Food, 2 Culture, 1 Energy
• Hekima: 3 Food, 1 Culture
• Jinsoku Labs: 2 Science, 2 Production
• Keagungan: 2 Culture, 2 Science
• Lalibela: 4 Culture
• New Babylon: 2 Culture, 2 Energy
• Omoikane: 4 Food
• Palatine: 4 Culture
• Red Sun: 4 Energy
• Shackleton: 1 Culture, 2 Science, 1 Production
• Stet Mining: 4 Production

Diplomacy - Diplomatic states

• Peace: Cannot attack rival units or enter their territory without an open borders agreement. The peace lasts until the end of a cease-fire agreement, after which it reverts to neutral status.
• Hostile: The rival colony is upset with your own. War is highly likely.
• Neutral: Your rival has balanced or has minimal feelings about your colony.
• Friendly: Similarities in government or other interests have brought you close to this colony.
• Guarded: Negotiations are not as likely to go well, but war can still be averted with some effort.

Diplomacy - Diplomatic agreements

Diplomatic relations with other colonies is determined by diplomatic states and any existing diplomatic agreements. Diplomatic agreements are acts or gestures that can either improve or deteriorate your relationship with a rival.

• Cooperation Agreement: Gain increased trade benefits from international routes to this colony, and gain line of sight from their covert agents in third-party territories.
• Alliance: Gain open borders and cooperation agreements with this colony and will automatically declare war if they enter into war with any third party.
• Open Borders: Can travel in the other colony's territory without provoking war. This is only possible when you are at least at a neutral state with your rival.
• Condemnation: One colony lowers their diplomatic status with another, which can lead to war.

Health

The following health states convey various bonuses or penalties.

• Panicked: -20 Health and lower. Results in -10% Production, Science, and Culture, double Intrigue from enemy actions, 50% reduced city growth, -50% outpost growth.
• Troubled: -10 to -19 Health. Results in -10% Production, Science, and Culture, double Intrigue from enemy actions.
• Shaky: -1 to -9 Health. Results in -10% Science and Culture.
• Stable: 0 to 9 Health. Results in +20% outpost growth
• Prosperous: 10 to 19 Health. Results in +10% Production, +20% outpost growth, -50% Intrigue from enemy actions.
• Utopian: 20 and greater Health. Results in +10% Production, Science, and Culture, +20% outpost growth, -50% Intrigue from enemy actions.

Science

To get more Science to quicken your research, invest in buildings (for example, labs and clinics) that result in more beakers. Also excavate as much Silica as possible and use the following Knowledge Virtues.

• Foresight: +10% Science when your nation is healthy.
• Field Research: Increases Science when you complete each expedition.
• Laboratory Apprenticeship: Generates Science from every citizen in your cities.
• Networked Datalinks: Reduces the Science penalty from the number of cities in your nation.
• Metaresearch Methods: Reduces the cost of Leaf Technologies.
• Learning Centers: +2 Science from academies.
• Technoartisans: Earn extra Science from your Culture output.

Technology

The cost, requirements, and rewards granted from each technology type is as follows.

Affinity bonuses - Harmony

Reach the indicated level in the listed affinity to gain the corresponding bonus.

• Level 1: Alien aggression levels return to neutral twice as quickly.
• Level 3: Units take 5 HP less damage from Miasma.
• Level 6: Units heal 5 HP in Miasma.
• Level 8: Four Xenomass resources for free.
• Level 11: Call Worm Strike Operation can be performed by Covert Agents.
• Level 13: Mind Flower can be constructed for Transcendence Victory Quest.

Affinity bonuses - Purity

Reach the indicated level in the listed affinity to gain the corresponding bonus.

• Level 1: Aliens will not attack tiles with Explorer Units.
• Level 3: +20% Strength and Ranged Strength when attacking or defending against aliens.
• Level 6: +2 Orbital Coverage in all Cities.
• Level 8: Four Floatstone resources for free.
• Level 11: Dirty Bomb Operation can be performed by Covert Agents.
• Level 13: Exodus Gate can be constructed for Promised Land Victory Quest.

Affinity bonuses - Supremacy

Reach the indicated level in the listed affinity to gain the corresponding bonus.

• Level 1: Explorer units can build an additional Expedition.
• Level 3: Roads and Magrails do not cost any Energy to maintain.
• Level 6: Orbital Coverage on and next to any tile with Firaxite.
• Level 8: Four Firaxite resources for Free.
• Level 11: Sabotage Operation can be performed by Covert Agents.
• Level 13: Emancipation Gate can be constructed for Emancipation Victory Quest.

Virtue bonuses

There are four different Virtue trees, Might, Prosperity, Knowledge, and Industry, each of which are divided into three tiers. You must collect a certain number of virtues in a specific tier before unlocking the next one. Buildings and resources that produce large amounts of Culture will help you gain Virtues.
Might

• 5 Virtues: +5% Strength and Ranged Strength for all Units.
• 10 Virtues: +5% Strength and Ranged Strength for all Units.
• 15 Virtues: Choose 1 Free Affinity Level.

Prosperity

• 5 Virtues: +10% Growth in every City.
• 10 Virtues: +1 Health for every City.
• 15 Virtues: +50% Orbital Coverage radius from Cities.

Knowledge

• 5 Virtues: +10% Culture in every City.
• 10 Virtues: +10% Science in every City.
• 15 Virtues: Choose 1 Free Technology.

Industry

• 5 Virtues: +10% Energy in every City.
• 10 Virtues: +10% Production in every City.
• 15 Virtues: Earn 1% of stockpiled Energy amount every turn, up to 100 Energy.

Features

Features are elements that appear on a specific terrain hex. They can also convey various bonuses.

• Flood Plain: +2 to Food.
• Forest: +1 to Food, +1 to Production, and 25% Combat Modifiers.
• Ice: No bonus.
• Marsh: -1 penalty to Food and -15% Combat Modifier.
• Miasma: No bonus.
• Rivers: +1 Energy to all hexes they run along; enemies attacking through rivers have 20% Combat Strength penalty.

Terrain bonuses

The following types of terrain hexes will give the corresponding bonus.

• Canyon: No bonus.
• Coast: +1 Food and +1 Energy.
• Desert: No bonus.
• Grassland: +2 to Food.
• Hills: +1 to Production and +25% Combat Modifiers.
• Lake: +2 to Food and +1 to Energy.
• Mountain/Crater: 25% Combat Modifiers.
• Ocean: +1 to Food.
• Plains: +1 to Food and +1 to Production.
• Snow and Tundra: No bonus.

Virtues

The following Virtues are available under each tier.
Might Tier 1

• Adaptive Tactics: +50% Experience from combat.
• Liberation Army: After conquering an enemy Outpost, automatically found an Outpost of your own in its place.
• Military-Industrial Complex: +15% Production toward Military Units.
• Public Security: +0.25 Health for every Military Unit under your command.
• Survivalism: 25% Strength and Ranged Strength against alien life forms.

Might Tier 2

• Adaptive Sciences: +20% Affinity earned from researching technologies.
• Army Engineering Corps: +1 Energy and Production from every Strategic Resource.
• Martial Meditations: Choose 1 Free Affinity Level.
• Scavenging: Earn 100% of an alien lifeform's Strength as Science after killing it, and 40 Science from destroying alien nests.
• Special Service: +40% Intrigue from Covert Operations.

Might Tier 3

• Brutal Efficiency: +50% quantity from sources of Strategic Resources.
• Channeled Wrath: +10% Strength and Ranged Strength for all Units.
• Democratized Quartering: -50% maintenance for Units.
• Integrated Arms: +10% Production toward a Unit for each Upgrade..
• Joint Operations: +3 Orbital Coverage provided by Stations you trade with..

Prosperity Tier 1

• Colony Initiative: Gain a free Colonist Unit.
• Frugality: +10% Food retained after a City grows.
• Helping Hands: +15% build speed for Tile Improvements.
• Homesteading: +30% speed toward Outpost growth.
• Workforce Initiative: Gain a free Worker Unit.

Prosperity Tier 2

• Gift Economy: +3 Energy from your land- and sea-based Trade Routes to foreign Cities.
• Mind over Matter: +7 Health.
• Pathfinders: Explorer Units can build 3 additional Expeditions.
• Pioneer Spirit: -25% Culture needed for border expansion.
• Settler Clans: +2 Population for newly founded Cities.

Prosperity Tier 3

• Ecoscaping: +1 Food, Production, and Culture from every Terrascape.
• Eudaimonia: 25% less negative Health.
• Hands Never Idle: +2 Energy from any Population acting as a Specialist.
• Joy from Variety: +1 Health for each type of Basic Resource that is improved.
• Nature's Bounty: +1 Production from every Basic Resource.

Knowledge Tier 1

• Creative Class: Earn extra Culture equal to 30% of net positive Health.
• Field Research: Earn 20 Science from finishing Expedition.
• Foresight: +10% Science when Healthy.
• Laboratory Apprenticeship: Each City tile generates +0.25 Science for every Population.
• Social Mores: Each City tile generates +0.25 Culture for every Population.

Knowledge Tier 2

• Applied Aesthetics: Earn extra Energy equal to 30% of the Culture you generate.
• Cohesive Values: -10% Culture needed for new Virtues.
• Community Medicine: +1 Health for every 6 Population in a City.
• Memeweb: -40% Culture penalty from the number of Cities for new Virtues.
• Networked Datalinks: -40% Science penalty from the number of Cities for new technologies.

Knowledge Tier 3

• Information Warfare: Recruit 1 new Covert Agent.
• Learning Centers: +2 Science from every Academy Improvement.
• Metaresearch Methods: Leaf technologies cost 10% less Science.
• Monomyth: +7 Culture for every Great Wonder.
• Technoartisans: Earn extra Science equal to 15% of the Culture you generate.

Industry Tier 1

• Central Planning: +5 Energy in the Capital.
• Commoditization: +1 Energy from every Basic Resource.
• Labor Logistics: +10% Production toward Buildings.
• Scalable Infrastructure: +15% Production toward Wonders.
• Standardized Architecture: +25% Production toward Buildings which have already been built in the Capital.

Industry Tier 2

• Alternative Markets: Trade Routes with Stations grant +6 Energy per Station tier.
• Entrepreneurial Spaceflight: +25% Production toward Orbital Units.
• Interdependence Network: +25% more yields from your Trade Routes to your own Cities.
• Investment: Earn 1% of stockpiled Energy amount every turn, up to 100 Energy.
• Profiteering: +0.5 Health for every Trade Unit under your command.

Industry Tier 3

• Civic Duty: Each City tile generates +0.5 Production for every Population.
• Liquidity: -20% Energy cost to purchase Units.
• Magnasanti: Each City generates +0.2 Health for every Building.
• Social Investment: +2 Production from every Manufactory Improvement.
• Superior Engineering: Orbital Units stay in orbit 50% longer before de-orbiting

Easy 'Ramming Speed' Achievement Guide

Owning the Rising Tide expansion, the idea to get this achievement is quite simple (standard game assumed): Build a colonist unit, move to the water, found a colony there and wait for it to grow to a city. Move the city to an alien water unit that cannot move (hydro coral for example) and that's it.

Easy 'Shai-Hulud' Achievement Guide

To unlock this achievement with an explorer unit, the technology Alien Domestication has to be discovered in the technology tree (lower half on the right side of the tree). In addition, harmony level 3 has to be reached. Then, to prevent the explorer unit (with a movement ability of two hexagons per turn) from being killed by aliens in the attempt, it is best placed in a city waiting for colossal alien units (such as Kraken, Siege Worm, Makara) to approach and destroy the infrastructure. Then, within a distance of two hexagons and an explorer unit of full energy, the leashing of the colossal alien unit will be successful and the achievement unlock.

Easy 'Fortune and Glory' Achievement Guide

There are six pairwise different Artifact Wonders, each to be built at least once, to unlock this achievement. Every one of them has to be unlocked first, before it can be built. In order to unlock an Artifact Wonder, the player has to combine three artifacts, from which at least one has to be of 'Progenitor' type (independent of the (health) state (1,2,3) of an artifact). Progenitor artifacts are rare compared to Alien Artifacts (obtained for example by plundering an Alien Nest) and compared to the Artifacts of the Old World (obtained by collecting Old Earth Relics for example). The way to obtain a Progenitor artifact is by building an explorer unit and sending it to an old ruin (sea or land position of the ruin doesn't matter) to explore it. For there may be a lot of effects and rewards by exploring such a ruin, the player needs to be a bit lucky to obtain such an artifact, as the description of the achievement says.

Easy 'The Halls of R'lyeh' Achievement Guide

This achievement is gained by completing the six Marvel quests, whom 5 depend on the biome chosen (the other one is the Hydro Coral quest, which depends on the existence of an ocean). Therefore, in order to get it quickly, the player should set up his/her own game 5 times and always choose a different one of the five biomes Lush, Arid, Frigid, Fungal, Primordial and also include an ocean into one game, such that all six quests can be completed within this framework. The completing procedure is always the same: There will be a central object, once discovered, the quest progresses in terms of demanding the exploration of the smaller objects of the same type on the map (number depends on difficulty level, map size and biome chosen). Once all the corresponding objects have been explored, the quest is completed and a bonus given to the corresponding player. Note: Unlike other objects in Beyond Earth, Marvel objects do not dissappear after exploration, such that every attending player is able to earn the corresponding bonus.

Easy 'Fearful Symmetry' Achievement Guide

The Rising Tide Expansion causes problems unlocking this achievement, beacause the player cannot choose Skirmish Map from the setup menu any more. The solution for this problem is not to disable the DLC('s) in the game, but to go to the STEAM game library, select the game Sid Meier's Civilization: Beyond Earth and disable the DLC('s) for Rising Tide Expansion by deselecting the corresponding box(es) within the 'Additional Content' menu. This will uninstall the content, which can be undone anytime, of course, by selecting the boxes again. With this preparation, starting the base game, Skirmish Map will be available and since the setup of a single game always allows to create a configuration (for example Duel, Sputnik difficulty) to win within 200 turns, the achievement is still unlockable and enjoyable as well.

Unlockables

Steam Achievements

To unlock the following, you have to play the game and collect/Earn achievements. You can find those earned achievements in your Game-Main menu or you can view them if you signup at one of the Steam communities.

Steam Achievements: Rising Tide

To unlock the following, you have to play the game and collect/Earn achievements. You can find those earned achievements in your Game-Main menu or you can view them if you signup at one of the Steam communities.

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