Dollars

[luthor]

After reading a lot of the articles in the War Academy section I've realized that perhaps my civs aren't making as much money as they should be. Many of the articles refer to making as much as two or three thousand gold per turn, and I'm feeling pretty good if I'm making two hundred. What are people doing to bring in so much gold?

 

[SanPellegrino]

You usually can't make that much money on your own, at least in earlier stages of the game. To get that much, you must usually sell your techs. You can get insane amounts of gpt from big democratic civs.

 

[farting bob]

maybe these people have got into future techs, sothey stopscience funding. if you keep your entrtainment funding as normal, then you can easily make 2000 gpt in a good game.

 

[jorge_roberto]

It also depends on the size of the map.

To maximize the money of your civilization:

- use Republic or Democracy
- optmize the Forbidden Palace location
- build Market Places and Banks.
- build CourtHouses and Police Stations in cities with corruption problems
- work tiles that have resources that increase money (like gold and luxury resources)
- sell your technologies and resouces to others civilizations
- build temple, cathedral etc in cities with unhappy problem (so, you won't need entertainers)
- build granaries in every city (or build Pyramid). Your cities will grow faster and the income will grow faster too.
- build Wall Street
- try to build Colossus (easy) and Smith's Trading Co.

I think that's it.

 

[farting bob]

you forgot to build roads / railroads on as manyworkable squares as possible. rouads increase money, rail increase producton and food.

 

[Gothmog]

If you want to make thousands you have to be on a pretty large map. Large map = more cities = more income, on a small map you will more likely hit about 1000 gpt, once you have wall street.

 

[farting bob]

wall street will onlygive you a max of 50gpt, which isn't huge amounts in modern era.
BTW, unless you are in serious war wireness, youre not going to need to spend any extra money, so you will slowly get a big enough tresury to please even the most greedy civs.

 

[MadScot]

I usually go from scraping by to the richest guy on the planet in the early industrial era. By that stage I'm hopefully a democracy (unless the world is one big war zone) and am large enough to seriously chase wonders.

By racing for Replaceable Parts, then Scientific Method, and prebuilding TofE I can often be pretty certain I will get the two free advances. Since any science spent is wasted by the automatic advances (I don't believe it carries over) there is no point is having any research above one scientist. So that often gives me 5-10 turns of democracy with zero research and perhaps only 10-20% lux. That can mean a LOT of $$$

 

[Gothmog]

Re farting bob: I was just using wall street as a marker indicating that you have built 5 Stock Markets (and thus must have at least 5 banks). By that time, on a small map, you should have about 1000 gpt.