Tarquelne
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unless sephi changed it in the last beta round you will never pay any gold for improvements as long as you build only as much as your cities can support.
I'm often paying a little gold. Maybe civics can put you in the red?
I'm very glad I can put in that many resources: Being kept strictly in the black would be too intrusive. As things are I haven't minded the hardcap.
Playing as Scions: Took a size 10 (maybe 13?) city without running God King - population drops to 2. I was doing other things with a big influence on my economy so it simply took me awhile to think about checking the new city's improvement maintenance cost: -18 gold/turn!
And the nearest pillaging unit was 5 turns away.
IIRC getting rid of just one improvement lowered the rate dramatically. Hmm... but I think I changed civics, too.
Not a complaint, btw. It would have been easy enough to anticipate. And it made me want to put some Workers with a Mistform and have them build Cottages in enemy territory. Suck on some subsidized housing, treehuggers!
Too bad Workers can't do that. Union regulations, I suppose.