How to save up gold v1

[Bibor]

Here's a sample game of a solid economy and specialized cities. Economy is down atm because I nuked two cities last turn (and capped some workers), otherwise it's running at 60+ GPT.

Ignore the long stretch of road, I added that because I'm planning two cities down there. Otherwise the two parts of my empire were connected via harbors to save on road maintenance for quite some time.

 

[oPlaiD]

You can sell your Open Borders for 50g a pop if you have a Pact of Cooperation with the civilization. I'm not positive that's a requirement, but the only Civ who wouldn't do it with me was Montezuma and he wouldn't set up a pact, so it sure seems like it.

 

[Describer]

Here's my save. I'm doing +86 GPT at 1530AD with Greeks