Gold earn for wide strategy

[AlaskA]

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In one of my last games i try play wide and find a bit usefull GOLD strategy in midgame (turns 40-80).

For what i need a lot of gold, if i gonna play wide:
1) 640g - Buy colonists, not build them;
2) 270g - Buy trade deports when outpost become city for immediately start TR;
3) 700g - Buy autoplants when outpost become city for immediately start TR.


A lot of gold? Really a lot for the midgame and wide strategy. Im start thinking and i find to solve 2 problems.

1) Find "Gold Mine".
2) Make that "Gold Mine" works for me.


1. Quest guide - "Find Gold Mine"

ASAP i make good relationship with 3 AI's, who a the farest and don't whine if u place new cities, explore ruins or kill aliens around. From friendly AI u can earn:

- 1 favor for a cost of 3 gpt
- 1 favor for a cost of 1 science per turn
- 1 favor for a cost of 2 strategic resources
- 50 gold for a cost of open borders
- 100 gold for a cost of selling back 1 favor

So the real problem is help friendly AI reach huge GPT numbers by trading my gpt for his favors and then just selling back favors for gold. It's what i call "Make gold mine works for me".

2. Quest guide - "Make gold mine works for me".

Each turn i check friendly AI and if some of them have 100 or more gold, im change my 3 gpt for 1 they favor and immediately sell it back for 100 gold. With each turn im become richer and richer and AI's gpt grows like snowball.

How i keep my income positive?

I choose 3 "non-friendly" AI's, who are the closest to me and whine all time i do a step (omg, idiotic rule from gamedevs) and trade all they free gold for my GPT (someitmes, before trade i change all my citie to "produce" gold) and right after trade i declare a war to them. All my GPT return back, so i repeat it with all 3 AI's in one turn, but all they gold belongs to my treasury (Bwuauahahagaga free, freeee gold).

AI very stupid and at turn 50-60 have no really strong army. Also, AI think if i have much more points in leaderboard, im stronger. And after next 10-15 turns of "war" i offer peace to AI in exchange of HUGE reward for me like ~20-30 gold per turn. After 15 turns of peace im repeat this theatre with each of that 3 AI's.

Also, im use 2 EXTERNAL roads from each new city to fill my GPT.
Also, i try place new city near resources i can trade for favors!

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Im solve all my problems with this gold strategy and don't build any colonist, trade deports or autoplants in my 3rd and next city.

 

[AlaskA]

Turn 50 peace treaty with General Vadim. What i earn?

2 favors
29 gpt
163 gold

 

[alpaca]

Don't your "friendly" AIs hate you after you declare war once or twice? In my experience, unless I have a DoF with them, I will almost always get the warmongering penalty when I attack someone else.

By the way, you can also sell 1 science per turn for a favor if you have a DoF

 

[AlaskA]

Don't your "friendly" AIs hate you after you declare war once or twice? In my experience, unless I have a DoF with them, I will almost always get the warmongering penalty when I attack someone else.

By the way, you can also sell 1 science per turn for a favor if you have a DoF

Im really become fan of science, so never trade it - but ty, i add it into first post

Main question. Yes, they hate me if we have no DOF. How i got DOF with "friendly" AI?

Im find that if u trade with AI - u have a chance that that AI offer u DOF. Im test it and make 50 reloads after few turns after trade. AI offer me DOF 5 or more times during it (it's like building quest lol).

And sometimes if u make 1 DOF, some leaders tell that "we see u make DOF with blablabla, we like it" and after few turns they offer DOF to u. Like a chain reaction.

So i don't see a problem there. For me diplomacy screen always like in attachment