Turn 2594 on marathon I have 751,902 gold, i'm in the midst of a 240 turn golden age and am profiting 3,000 gpt total economy is 11,522 gpt and I have 65 cities
I'm playing on the biggest earth map i could download and i control almost all of north and south america as well as parts and a few other scattered cities
I have the strongest military and everyone else is going way into the negative gpts building military, I'm on friendly terms with everyone except the aztecs who are guarded but only have cities
i started with 22 cities and (up to) 41 city states
ok i won't go on and on but this is the best civilization game i've ever played
it's been a hell of a ride
my plan right now is to repeal nuclear non-proliferation after securing all sources of uranium and getting gold up over a million, rebuilding infrastructure to production mode (on trade post/custom house heaven right now) and nuke whatever is left, nuclear missiles are 3110 gold in marathon so with a million gold I could have over 100 nuclear missiles plus whatever i produced
I also kind of want to see how long I can keep it going, i really don't want to do war, I want to save up as much as I can until one of the following happens:
1. the big guys team up on me or someone mounts a serious invasion against me
2. the balance of power is threatened
3. I have enough gold to buy 4 nukes for every city on the map so i can literally destroy them all
Victory conditions
I have been elected world leader so many times I lost count, i won science and culture victories as well
all that's left is domination and the invisbile one (conquest)
I just checked and Bismark is at -3027 gpt and he's only a moderate power, his parallel is russia, then you have persia, egypt, and china which are all about equal...they just have stronger economies and aren't as far in the red yet
the rest are small fry
18 city states left, they are all my allies, i pumped about 50k gold into each of them already
I dunno at -3027 I'm a little worried, my unit maintenance is about 5500 a turn (i have max # of guided missiles in every city, mostly bazooka garrisons with nuclear submarines in all coastal cities, a few scattered missile cruisers, and about 30 giant death robots and some other units but i could buy a unit in every city for many turns, so my reserve army is my gold
maybe i'll come back and let you know what happens