Best GP farm

Here's the best I've managed so far. 308 gp points and 159 hammers (without building things with specialized bonuses like wonders, military units or spaceship parts) is not bad.

This was my original capital (later built the palace in a commerce city, but built Versailles here), on Noble, at this point running Universal Sufferage, Free Speech, Emancipation, Environmentalism, and Pacifism. I built all the wonders here except Stonehenge, Parthenon, Chichen Itza, and Sistine Chapel (which I didn't get), and Great Lighthouse, Colossus, and Three Gorges (which I couldn't build because of geography) and Space Elevator (I don't have the tech yet).

I had no access to stone until very late in the game. Everything that needed stone, I built with a Great Engineer popped from this city. Everything else I either used a Great Engineer if I had one, or built with hammers - hammers were high enough in this city to allow pretty quick wonder building.

The most likely GP is still great engineer. Too bad I couldn't build Three Gorges here (I built it elsewhere), as that would have been more GP points AND more likelihood of a great engineer.

In the same empire I also have a pretty good commerce/science city, money/religion city, and military production city.

That is an amazing city!

How are you running so many engineers?

A Forge and Factory accounts for 3, and Ironworks could account for the last 3. But, it sounds like you built the Ironworks in your production city (plus it's not on the buildings list).

I'm horrible at making GP farms, so I'm sure there's some element I'm missing. Could you enlighten me?

No, I have Ironworks there (sorry I didn't list it - I figured it'd be assumed from the six engineers). Aside from the six engineers, I'd never be able to multiply the hammers so high without Ironworks.

I just about always pair Ironworks with National Epic in my GP farm (usually my original capital), even if it's a low hammer city. Yes, you sacrifice hammers you'd otherwise get by putting Ironworks in a high-hammer city. But, I think it's more important to be able to farm Great Engineers in your National Epic city.

In this case, though, it wasn't much of a hammer sacrifice. This would have been one of my highest-hammer cities anyway.

Anyway, by combining the high hammers here with Great Engineer production, I was able to build nearly all the wonders in this one city, which greatly increases GP points as the wonders pile up (and you don't have to feed them!)

Usually the only time I won't pair the National Epic with Ironworks is when I'm a spiritual civ with religion(s) founded in my capital. Then I'll pair national epic and wall street in the holy city.

More about making GP farms in my article here: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=209331

308 GP points, wow, madness, very nice. I haven't come above 200 as far as I know. Ok got to 256 last night in an OCC so very impressive. Couldn't get enough health to grow enough (was at minus 10 at ctiy size 31 even after genetics and recycling center)

Mildy (*cough*) of topic, but I looked at the mini map. You seem to have conqured one continent to the east, and half of London's. Nice.

Yeah, it was a terran map, so most of the conquering of the other continent was pounding on barbarians (they actually had some pretty big cities and fairly strong armies, but were technologically behind). I'm about to win here; I disabled domination victory but I think I had recently got United Nations, and could vote myself in just on my votes.

KEWL city - haven't been able to hit more than the 100-200 gpp ( with NE, Paci, Phi leader and Parthenon) - I did pretty good as Ghandhi once, but I was pacifistiiic, and my culture beated on Caesar. Eventually, he killed me!

Nice...I usually don't play Terra, since the thought of Barbarians controlling massive city's across the continent freaks me out-I'd wait for at least Assembly Line and Infantry- but now it seems pretty interesting to mw.

Here's another nice engineer-GP farm. Fewer gp points (partly because of less food, partly because the leader's not philosophical), but more hammers, and a better chance for great engineers. It was also a pretty good science city for most of the game, but has been left behind by the huge cottage-cities (again, I moved the capital to a more commerece-heave city where I built Wall Street).

You can't see all the wonders, but in addition to National Epic and Ironworks, I have everything here except Oracle, Parthenon, Chichen Itza, and Sistine Chapel (the AI got these), and Colossus and Great Lighthouse (couldn't build here because it wasn't coastal - I got Colossus myself in my third city). I was even able to build Three Gorges and Space Elevator here. The nice thing about this one was that I didn't need great engineers for everything - I was often able to churn out wonders in a few turns with the hammers.

It goes to show that a city doesn't have to have huge food to be a great GP farm. You can build wonders, and concentrate on engineer specialists.

The best thing about this one is - you can build it yourself in the same place! It's the Earth18civ map, two north of the Aztec settler's starting spot. I was on Noble level, but I think it would also work out pretty well on higher difficulties.

To the above: You also beat the heck out of culture Legendary and +670 per turn nice job

Dont have a screenshot of it, but i've got to around 250+ before modern times as elizabeth in an earth map, just get all the bonuses (parthenon, pacifism, national epic), build tons of wonders (pyramids+great library needed), and take all the food tiles from the french so it can grow to pop of around 25 (harder to go more since unhealtyness). yours was nice too, but it isnt worth it on a tougher map, since you only make 90 research, while mine made 300+ . but what i wanna know is what you did with all of em, don't you usually stack them in the city?