how do I get my gold
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Scuffer
Scuffer says...
You only get the extra gold if those tiles are being worked by your citizens. If you want to manually assign them to the tile, zoom to your city and click the gold tile. However, this means that another tile is now not worked, and that'll usually mean you lose shield or food production because mountains aren't very productive. It's up to you which you need more, gold, food or shields.
It's hard to be specifc, but a good way to improve your gold situation is switch to republic and build roads on every worked tile.
It's hard to be specifc, but a good way to improve your gold situation is switch to republic and build roads on every worked tile.
thetrooper
Misanthrope
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The gold resources won't make all your gold for you, they are just bonus resources. Scuffer gave you the best tip to make gold: road every tile and switch to republic. Later marketplaces, banks, stock exchange (and finally Wall Street) will help you. Tiles with rivers will add an extra gold too.
Don't use the bonus gold tiles unless you don't want your cities to grow anymore or you have irrigated bonus food resources (cattle/wheat) inside your city borders too. Assign citizens to the irrigated tiles first, then you have enough food to assign future citizens to the gold tiles. Mountain gold tile gives no food, hill gold tile gives one food.
Post a screenshot of your cities and we can tell you more.
Don't use the bonus gold tiles unless you don't want your cities to grow anymore or you have irrigated bonus food resources (cattle/wheat) inside your city borders too. Assign citizens to the irrigated tiles first, then you have enough food to assign future citizens to the gold tiles. Mountain gold tile gives no food, hill gold tile gives one food.
Post a screenshot of your cities and we can tell you more.
TyranusBonehead
Bound & Determined
Does it make a difference if you mine the tile with the gold? That's what I've been doing, besides putting a road in to connect the gold to the nearest city.
thetrooper
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Mining the gold tile will give you more shields from that tile, nothing else. Connecting the gold tile by roading it will increase commerce by one. Gold is not tradeable, unless you are speaking of some of the C3C scens.
Puppeteer
Emperor
Gold is not like horses or furs. It's more like cows or wheat. That is, you can't trade it or use it; it just makes that tile more valuable in one way to work. Roading it helps bring more commerce *if* your city is working that tile. A mine doesn't improve gold, but if your city is working that tile you might as well mine it. Connecting the gold to the city by road doesn't improve anything, but in most cases I road every tile a worker ever stands in (if it's not worth roading, what's the worker doing there, anyway?) so by default any worked tile is attached to a city, anyway.TyranusBonehead said:
