How do you be a cashman

[Ouchgeddon]

I want to try playing an entrepeneur, probably France, concentrating on cold hard cash and buying everything the others research. Then probably price-gouging it to others like a true unscrupulous trader.

Problems: How to get Great Wonders since other civs will get the techs 1st, and which ones? I'm thinking a mega-economy can buy a fresh tech (such as Monotheism), really rush to the next one that allows a Great Wonder and use my well developed cities to win the Wonder Dash. Anyone have any tips?

 

[acivguy]

this was possible in 1.16, with 1.17 it will be really difficult.
The new aggressive trading that the AI does makes it hard to get much for a tech that others already have.

 

[Dutchman]

Put your science rating to 0% right at the beginning, get in contact with as mutch civ's as you can and never trade contact to an other civ! build the Great Libary and your much on your way! In the time you have till education buildup your city's, so when you hit education you can cope with the ai!

 

[Joben]

0% science is excessive put it at 10%

For the first thousand years at least i run my games at 10% science
you get like 30-40 turn research instead of none, and
its generaly at the cost of only a very small amount of gold per turn.

EDIT: also with a little of your own reserch going if you buy techs
from other people you have a decent chance of then reserching
the next tech on the tree and potentialy getting to a wonder tech
before most if not all of the other Civs have it.

 

[LaRo]

With only 10% or research, your chance of being the first are very small. 0% bring you more cash.

A tip: Always have a city producing palace. When you can, change for a wonder and restart palace in another city.

I did this strategy in my current game and after I built Darwin's voyage, I was two steps in front of others civs. Earning 50 gp per turn with Wall Street and selling techs after I got a big advance for wonders, allowed me to increased my research to 100%. I will go for spaceship victory but I will have fun with my tanks before.

 

[Ouchgeddon]

Thanx for the tips all! So far I'm to 110 AD, with a little tech edge ahead of others. Great Library early got me 6 techs, whenever I got a new tech I'd rent it out. Republic was learnt by Library leading to insta-building. But I can't get my research to below 16 a tech yet.