econony going down

[rolyreefer]

hi everyone, my economy goes down a lot in one turn. it goes down from +7 to -11 just like that. does anyone know how to fix this problem? thanks very much

 

[danaphanous]

A ton of things can cause this. But if you keep track of where your gold is coming from seeing what it is should be easy. Mouse-over your gold and it'll tell you where all of it comes from. look for what changed between this turn and the last.

Possible reasons:
- governors switched off gold-producing tiles to other tiles in the cities. This can happen if you just came out of unhappiness as they will sense it is time to grow your cities instead of make money. - manually switch them back
- deals with the AI ended that were giving you gold - redo the deal
- a trade route has ended and you need to reassign it - send trades to new cities to get your gold back

Gold income can fluctuate a lot late game which is why you want it to be higher then +7 gpt. I recommend making markets, banks, and stock exchanges to improve your gold income and making and sending more trade routes if you haven't built all you can yet.

 

[docbud]

Did one of your trade agreements expire? If you were trading one of your luxuries for gold with one of the AIs and it expired, your gold will drop. Did you just finish building a new building? There are maintenance costs for many of them. Same things with units. Did you just finish building or buying a military unit or a worker or something?

 

[Solutionfinder]

Trade route got plundered? Nasty business Or a barbarian has destroyed a road connection perhaps? Or anything of the above?