Couch Tomato
First Tomato Emperor
As I'm still a noob to Civ V, I think this has become a recurring problem. After a certain point, I just start losing money -- and soon happiness -- to the point where I can't recover.
Latest example: I'm Iroquois and have been dominating with my initial five cities. Lots of income, happiness, and city-state friends. I decide to plop down a city (and then another) since I figured I had the income for it. Eventually it starts going negative.
After some wars, I acquire more cities, and my income was so negative that it wouldn't go up until I lost my last military unit to the Roman invaders... then all the cities I conquered.
Eventually I got it back thanks to my superior tech and a million golden ages, and conquered nearly half the map. I also built like 20 friggin wonders. After digging into Rome (who at one point owned like 80% of the world) extremely deep, I find myself losing money again.
I can't cut my military units short any more, and it's not like I can get rid of buildings. A bunch of my cities have maxed out the money buildings up to the stock exchange, and it was still at -140/turn. Recently I just put all my specialists into wealth, and it's down to -57 -- but there's absolutely nothing I can do now other than delete units.
How do I stop this from happening!? Does this game just not want you to conquer the world? Because it seems like there's a cap to how much you can take before everything starts imploding...
Latest example: I'm Iroquois and have been dominating with my initial five cities. Lots of income, happiness, and city-state friends. I decide to plop down a city (and then another) since I figured I had the income for it. Eventually it starts going negative.
After some wars, I acquire more cities, and my income was so negative that it wouldn't go up until I lost my last military unit to the Roman invaders... then all the cities I conquered.
Eventually I got it back thanks to my superior tech and a million golden ages, and conquered nearly half the map. I also built like 20 friggin wonders. After digging into Rome (who at one point owned like 80% of the world) extremely deep, I find myself losing money again.
I can't cut my military units short any more, and it's not like I can get rid of buildings. A bunch of my cities have maxed out the money buildings up to the stock exchange, and it was still at -140/turn. Recently I just put all my specialists into wealth, and it's down to -57 -- but there's absolutely nothing I can do now other than delete units.
How do I stop this from happening!? Does this game just not want you to conquer the world? Because it seems like there's a cap to how much you can take before everything starts imploding...