Newbie question on GPT

[Aonym]

Hi guys, long time lurker first time poster here. I have a question I hop eyou can help me with. I have been playing on king level,huge map, marathon,20 civs for a while now and I am noticeing a trend recently. I usually win more games than I lose using different stratagies.

So, the last few games have gone normaly until around year 1900ish, sometimes earlier, sometimes later. What happens is one civ will suddenly go from a normal gpt amount to right around 1500 gpt, and it stays that way for the rest of the game. When that happens I can't compete, they are sitting on over 100,000 gold and just destroy everyone.

Is this normal? I could understand if it were an increase over time, but it really seems to happen very suddenly.

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

Hm... 1500 gpt? that's a lot of money. I'm sure the AI gets bonuses the gold, the only thing I can think of is Machu Picchu and Trade Routes, which I've noticed increase the income by a LOT, usually when my cities are unconnected I make about 1-15 gold per turn, but once my cities become connected it rises to 50-100. Not to mention Golden Eras increase Gold income as well.

 

[Tabarnak]

Huge map and marathon make this possible. Close to the 20th century it's normal to see huge amount of gpt

 

[Aonym]

thanks for the help guys.

 

[WeaselSlapper]

Could also be because they went on a conquroring spree and picked up a lot of puppets.