Are Markets, Grocers and Banks worth it?

[odin1981]

It's mainly an early game (pre-currency) thing with binary, once you might get gold from AIs each turn i rarely do 0% ones.

If my next tech is valuable, i can do more harm than good by gathering too much gold

What i sometimes do then is one lower science turn, with gold calculated for my next turn being 100% again.
(but without collecting more gold than needed for that)

Yeah some people won't like it due to too much micro but I often binary for just enough for 1 turn of 100% early game. That way if cathy, shaka or monty comes calling for collections they never get much more than 50-100 gold. Cause they are long passed dead or I have really messed up if they live beyond past the 100% turns if they cost more than 100 per turn or they are on another continent and are irrelevent.

 

[6K Man]

There is one disadvantage of binary research that I haven't seen discussed: when you have a large amount of gold on hand, and either you or the AIs have currency, they may demand gold from you.

Exactly this.