how do i get gold?

[fdlkid2]

Sorry for the dumb question but

I'm having problems trying to get gold I'm kinda new to the civilization series(only played civilization 2 and 4)


btw, i never figured out what the gold was for except for bribing other cultures

once again, i apologize for the dumb question

 

[Psyringe]

Hi, welcome to CivFanatics.

Your cities produce (among other things) commerce. In the beginning of the game, you can use commerce to produce either research or gold. There are a plus and a minus button around a beaker sign in the top left corner of the screen that let you adjust how much commerce will be used for science. The default setting is 100%, meaning that all commerce will be turned into research, and no gold will be produced.

If you set it to 70% and your cities produce 10 points of commerce, then you wil get 7 research points per turn and get 3 gold per turn.

Gold can be used to hurry buildings and to upgrade units. But for the former you need to run a civic that comes rather late in the game, and the latter is often less efficient than simply building new units. It can also be used as diplomatic currency, as you said.

If you wanted tips on how to get more commerce and a better economy (I couldn't make that out from your question), ask again.

 

[oagersnap]

You also need to watch how much you're spending on city maintainance in each city. It's in the top left corner of the city screen. If you're spending more than you earn from the city (you can also see that in the top left corner of the city screen), you probably need to build a courthouse or increase your income from that city.

 

[slothman]

You can also use a great merchent to establish a trade route.
You get lots of gold from that.
Or you can just sell techs to other civs.
I get most of my gold, to upgrade units, that way.
You can also set your science to 0% for a turn to get much money.
As long as you remember to set it back to 100% science.
I believe religious buildings, well only wonders, produce gold and not commerce.
Try to found some religions.
After that create a great prophet.
Then rush the religion wonder for a founded religion in which you have the holy city.
Finally spread you religion throughout as many cities as possible via trade routes and preferibly missionaries.
Of course only the last won't work at the beginning but you don't really need that much gold then.

 

[oagersnap]

You can also use a great merchent to establish a trade route.
You get lots of gold from that.
Or you can just sell techs to other civs.
I get most of my gold, to upgrade units, that way.
You can also set your science to 0% for a turn to get much money.
As long as you remember to set it back to 100% science.
I believe religious buildings, well only wonders, produce gold and not commerce.
Try to found some religions.
After that create a great prophet.
Then rush the religion wonder for a founded religion in which you have the holy city.
Finally spread you religion throughout as many cities as possible via trade routes and preferibly missionaries.
Of course only the last won't work at the beginning but you don't really need that much gold then.

Great merchants come late in the game too...

 

[EvilGuy]

Or you can just sell techs to other civs.

This is an awesome method for quick cash... go see all leaders one after the the other, and look at their funds. Sell any tech that won't give too much of an edge to the AI, that is at least, at a decent price. There's usually a few AIs with 1k gold or more for you to grab.

 

[Bakaroyna]

And remember: there are no stupid questions - only answers. (And some people, but that's another story )

 

[fdlkid2]

If you wanted tips on how to get more commerce and a better economy (I couldn't make that out from your question), ask again.

exactly what I meant

You also need to watch how much you're spending on city maintainance in each city

I never thought about that

thanks for the help and ill be sure to check out the tips ans strategies forum for some tips unless you want to post some here idc