Buy buildings/unit using gold?

[hbjbh]

Hi.

I am newbie, and need some start-up help:

1. Is it possible to buy buildings/units by paying gold?
2. How do I use the airports?
3. Which units are the best to use when attacking a city defended be longbowmen?

 

[Mrdie]

1. Is it possible to buy buildings/units by paying gold?

I am pretty sure that having the Universal Suffrage civic allows you to spend hammers (or gold? I forget) to finish production in a city (Buildings or units). How however, I do not know.

 

[oagersnap]

I am pretty sure that having the Universal Suffrage civic allows you to spend hammers (or gold? I forget) to finish production in a city. How however, I do not know.

It's gold, since you always use hammers to build stuff. And you do it by clicking the small icon in the white box in the bottom of the city screen with a gold icon and an arrow on it.

2. You get commerce from them, and if you want to airlift a unit in a city with an airport, click the icon with a helicopter on it.

3. Maybe knights, but longbowmen are hard to defeat no matter what you use.

 

[hbjbh]

Thanks.

But does it mean that a huge treasury of gold plays just a minor role in the early stages of the game?

 

[ZippyRiver]

well, unless you build the Pyramids, you will not be able to select the universal sufferage civic early on in the game. So havinga lot of gold early game won't do much for you. Drive your tech at 100% for a longer period perhaps. And define a "huge treasury"? If your talking about using the editor to start out with 50k gold, yeah, it would be fairly pointless. But if your doing that, might as well give yourself 4000BC tanks too.

Hmm, now there is a space race challange. Give everyone the required techs to trun the space race and none of the pre-reqs. Hmm, a granary in 15 turns, or a stasis chamber in......slightly a few more.

 

[Psyringe]

But does it mean that a huge treasury of gold plays just a minor role in the early stages of the game?

Yes. You should have some money to upgrade your units (which is rather expensive - if you have a good production base, making new units may be the better option), but aside from that, there's not much reason to hoard gold.