Am I way too big?

[Iron59]

I have a five-city civ in a noble game on a Pangaea map playing as Caesar after beating the crap out of Alexander in an early rush. Thing is, I'm losing money. I want to expand some more, but I'm afraid I'll start losing money. Of course I have cottages, but they take a long time to really get going.

Do you think I'm too large?

 

[Sian]

more info ... but no ... your certainly not to big ... you just doesn't have Economy going (for one reason or another ... with no info (that is ... Screens or save game) its impossable to say why

Anyways this should proberly have been placed in Strategy forum

 

[McThomas]

Get Code of Laws... spam Courthouses once you have conqured the vile greeks

 

[karadoc]

5 cities on normal size map is not big - but it is possible to expand too quickly...

 

[JujuLautre]

If when you say you're losing money you mean that you have to lower your science slider to pay for your cities/unit, that's a perfectly usual situation. In fact, you should lower the slider.

The important stuff is how much science you produce. If your science output drops too far, or worse you're bleeding gold at 0% science, then you are overexpanding for sure. But otherwise, it doesn't matter if your science slider is at 10% as long as you get science rolling.

 

[Otaku-sama]

If you're losing money as Augustus, then it is understandable, but if you're losing money as Julius, then something is surely wrong. Maybe you're losing money from war weariness, when your citizens slowly become more and more angry and unproductive during war. Maybe it's time for you to make peace with Alex for a while to give you time to build up your economy (and build a larger army of doom). If you're not at war, maybe your sliders are maxed out. That causes drain on your economy. If your slider are bottom, then you better start deleting units to reduce maintainance costs. If your still losing money, then restart.

 

[kochman]

I have a five-city civ in a noble game on a Pangaea map playing as Caesar after beating the crap out of Alexander in an early rush. Thing is, I'm losing money. I want to expand some more, but I'm afraid I'll start losing money. Of course I have cottages, but they take a long time to really get going.

Do you think I'm too large?

5 cities is never too big. Its too small.
Start researching financial techs and building the buildings for them.
Currency + Forums
Code of Laws + Courthouses
Optics + Harbors

Trade your excess resources for cash.

Then find you next target of conquest, and fund yourself through pillaging his cottages and capturing his cities.

 

[Iron59]

Never mind guys, I got it under control. And wiped out the Greeks while doing it.