How do you get the most Gold?

[mrdeathmeh]

I wanted to know what is the best possible civ to get the most amount of gold.

 

[DemonMaster]

For BNW

* Play a civ with a bonus of getting gold.
* Micromanage so you cities really is working your luxury resource (this doesn't usually give much production, but hey, we are talking about gold).
* Don't build roads until your capital has grown and also your "target" city has grown some.
* Cargo Ships to highest gold.
* Social Policies: Commerce
* Don't overdo building units. Human player can survive with fewer.
* Ideology: Freedom.

Have I forgotten something?

Can't say that I would do this when I play the game ... so much.

 

[GWashington]

I would say Venice or Portugal (probably Portugal). Venice has the ability to make double the trade routes which is powerful early game and can get you swimming in gold late game. On the other hand, Portugal gets the standard amount of trade routes, but double the gold from them, which can be powerful too. The reason I say Portugal could be stronger with gold is because they can settle cities, which means some of those cities could have many gold producing tiles, which you are able to work. Venice is stuck with one city, and I don't think they can choose what tiles the puppets work.

 

[phillipwyllie]

Bully other civs by taking out all their units(but not any cities) and taking a hefty gpt peace deal. 30 turns later rinse and repeat. You'll know you when you take almost anything when the opening text reads "I know I'm staring defeat in the face....." when you talk to your "ca$h register". This works best on an islands map when you have submarines.

 

[DemonMaster]

The Portuguese double the diversity (worth due to different resources) but trade units can be risky. Inca can be good, but they depends on terrain of course (roads=free). Paper Maker of the chinese doesn't forces you to do certain things they just are.

 

[shaglio]

Arabia's Bazaar doubles the Luxury Resources in a city allowing you to do more trading, but it is of the manual, active kind, not the mostly passive Trade Routes mechanic.

Also, Morocco has an increase in Trades Route gold others make with you (making you an attractive trade partner), but then you're relying on the AIs to make the Trade Routes.

 

[budweiser]

The best gold comes from overseas trade routes.

Venice is usually the richest, but large land empires can get 1,000 gpt later in game.

 

[sendos]

Build Colossus and DEIC in same city. Bonus if you're Venice or Portugal. My highest revenue from a single sea trade route is now 50gpt as Poland.

 

[njmfff]

Custom House from Great Merchant can be very powerful in BWN and much more useful then vanilla and GnKs (since you can boost it with World Congress and Freedom)

Not a terrible idea to drop one or two into puppet city, since puppets collect gold anyway.

 

[DeutschDachs]

I don't know if this applies but wouldn't Morocco be a strong contender because they have the most incentive for other Civs to trade with them? I can usually make bank playing Morocco without even having many trade routes myself because of all the foreign routes coming in

 

[direblade99]

Well if gold is the only objective and screw everything else you can work markets and banks to earn a ton.

 

[reddishrecue]

With Venice you can get double the trade mission bonuses with the great merchant of Venice. Trading with a Morocco neighbor civilization could also give more gold.

 

[DemonMaster]

I do have played the game in a ultra-capitalistic way but normally I don't.

There is plenty of gold in BNW and I like that. That way I can use the various tools (trade, micromanaging, etc) more tactical and not just one-way.

 

[vampireboot]

If all you care about is gold, build/puppet a bunch of cities and cover their tiles in trading posts. Your science will suffer badly, but they're going to make a lot of gold.

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

Venice with alot of Custom houses, 20 trade routes, all gold multipliers including commerence and theocracy, with freedom should be able to have rediculus trade routes maybe making 50-70 gold per each of them + the city itself should produce 100+ gold.

 

[Kouvb593kdnuewnd]

If all you care about is gold, build/puppet a bunch of cities and cover their tiles in trading posts. Your science will suffer badly, but they're going to make a lot of gold.

Not true at all, gold can help science alot with RAs and rush buying science Buildings.

 

[Autoclave]

Early game portugal is better because you do not have that many lucrative trade routes available. And portugal allows you to extract maximum from those coastal trade partners left. Venice will probably have to wait until the rest will settle. And will also have to use hammers to make more trade routes.