Leading Civ money trickery?

Haii.

I was playing on a huge map (North-west EU), while rivaling against the Maya for being the best scoring civ. Even tho the map is huge, I ended up boardering them, and as they started gaining the upper hand in points - I decided to coup their capital and razed two mid-sized cities. I then loaded the place up with artillery, and had a small army watching out over their "colony" of 6-7 minor cities + one huge city, (23 population at 1830 AD). "Guess they're checked now", I thought. Sure they dropped 200 points BUT they're getting MORE GPT now than ever, even tho they only popped up one city since I began the siege. Their GPT darted up/down between 300 to 550, ending at the latter, when I stopped playing, 60 turns after the siege on palalalaenque. This was played on emperor, and I gotta ask, what's going on? Why they be printing up money? I was the only one in military conflict with them during the 60 rounds.

They could be importing gold from other civs, or maybey in a golden age? Otherwise I'm not sure how to explain it.

animalguy said:

They could be importing gold from other civs, or maybey in a golden age? Otherwise I'm not sure how to explain it.

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Yes, but the strange thing is the 3 cities I took from them were goldmines, 3 costum houses and a ton of trading posts. Half their lux goods were gone too..

I was thinking to myself 'their economy is gonna take such a blow now" The gpt never changed, exept it got more volatile, between 300 and 500 as I said.

Then I don't know how to explain it. Perhaps there was so much building maitnence in the cities that you actually helped them by decreasing their maintence significantley

Killing lots of his units will decrease his maintenance costs as well.