Don't buy Gold from natives

[Chibiabos]

I have been taking, lately, to buying up Silver from natives by ship and wagon, gathering it to sell to Europe ... the Natives usually sell Silver for ~5 gold/apiece, making for a tidy profit in early Silver trading when it sells for 19 apiece in Europe, which really helps fund buying needed units.

Unfortunately, the new Gold resource isn't profitable in this way ... 9 units of Gold costs 540 gold to buy from a negative, but (before taxes) would only sell for 315 gold at home.

If there's gold next to a native settlement, to make money off it you'll have to take it from the Natives; they don't sell it at a profitable price.

EDIT: Forgot to mention this is for AoFD, of course.

 

[Aymerick]

I'll check into that, I might have forgot to lower the native buy/sell price...

 

[KJ Jansson]

I have been taking, lately, to buying up Silver from natives by ship and wagon, gathering it to sell to Europe ... the Natives usually sell Silver for ~5 gold/apiece, making for a tidy profit in early Silver trading when it sells for 19 apiece in Europe, which really helps fund buying needed units.

Unfortunately, the new Gold resource isn't profitable in this way ... 9 units of Gold costs 540 gold to buy from a negative, but (before taxes) would only sell for 315 gold at home.

If there's gold next to a native settlement, to make money off it you'll have to take it from the Natives; they don't sell it at a profitable price.

EDIT: Forgot to mention this is for AoFD, of course.

You can open CIV4YieldInfos.xml file and edit the line for gold from

			<iNativeSellPrice>[B]9[/B]</iNativeSellPrice>

to the value you want.