i need help...how do you get a butt load of gold?!
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cooolguy said:
By having a lot of cottages. On an average game around 1000AD, you should be able to make around 1000 gold per turn. Therefore, 2000 gold is really just 2 turns of saving.
Murky
Deity
Just build up lots of cottages then set the research rate to zero for a few turns.
OceansEleven
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Find 2 religions and spread it.
I basically did that in my last Prince game. 100% Research and was getting +80 gold each turn.
But if you just want gold... Trade, set your research to 0%....
I basically did that in my last Prince game. 100% Research and was getting +80 gold each turn.
But if you just want gold... Trade, set your research to 0%....
Sisiutil
All Leader Challenger
You can also try a specialist economy. It's amazing how much gold you can bring in...
In my experience unused gold is a waste. Every commerce that you don't turn into a beaker and instead keep as gold means you are not researching as fast as you could be. The only reason you would need much gold is to upgrade units or buy a wonder or building. These are specific corner cases and their game applications should be pretty obvious.
Stolen Rutters
Deity
Welcome to the forum!
Turn one or more cities into a commerce city. The early way is with a holy shrine (Great Prophet builds shrine in holy city..., any city with that religion gives the shrine one gold per turn). The long term way is by building cottages with all commerce multipliers built in that city (Courthouse, Marketplace, Grocer, Bank, etc.), or with specialists (once you have a handle on game mechanics). Great merchants help ALOT. Beeline for currency in the early game if you are expanding too fast and need the money.
However, I tend to funnel most of my commerce into tech to obtain a tech lead for military advantages, and work on getting enough cash to upgrade some of my military. Cash from conquests are usually enough for me to handle upgrades to most of my essential army stacks (I feed catapults to the front line and power through enemy cities with production so I don't have more than twenty units to upgrade on average for any individual unit upgrade sequence (axe-to-Mace, mace-to-guns, etc.).
edit - If you are new to the game, realize that fast expansion can increase your city maintenance costs far faster than your ability to generate cash. Learn the pace of expansion and match it to your economic techs. Your technological capability (Code of Laws, Currency, Banking, etc.) to generate commerce will define how fast you can expand without killing your science.
edit 2 - Specialize your cities. There are threads on this.
Turn one or more cities into a commerce city. The early way is with a holy shrine (Great Prophet builds shrine in holy city..., any city with that religion gives the shrine one gold per turn). The long term way is by building cottages with all commerce multipliers built in that city (Courthouse, Marketplace, Grocer, Bank, etc.), or with specialists (once you have a handle on game mechanics). Great merchants help ALOT. Beeline for currency in the early game if you are expanding too fast and need the money.
However, I tend to funnel most of my commerce into tech to obtain a tech lead for military advantages, and work on getting enough cash to upgrade some of my military. Cash from conquests are usually enough for me to handle upgrades to most of my essential army stacks (I feed catapults to the front line and power through enemy cities with production so I don't have more than twenty units to upgrade on average for any individual unit upgrade sequence (axe-to-Mace, mace-to-guns, etc.).
edit - If you are new to the game, realize that fast expansion can increase your city maintenance costs far faster than your ability to generate cash. Learn the pace of expansion and match it to your economic techs. Your technological capability (Code of Laws, Currency, Banking, etc.) to generate commerce will define how fast you can expand without killing your science.
edit 2 - Specialize your cities. There are threads on this.
Datian
Prince
macrobot said:
There is another use to money...
Say you treasury is slowy growing at 70% science, after some turns you'll have a nice lump. If you begin a long war and war wearyness cripples your cities, you can use your extra money to support 10-30% culture for some turns, and thus keep your people happy during your war years.
Hey Joni
Warlord
If you're wondering why everybody else has so much gold - it's probably cause you beat them to many wonders. They receive cash for the lost production. The good thing is that if you have tech lead, you trade non-military techs with them and end up with the wonders AND gold. Of course, at higher levels this is not very likely 
Hans Lemurson
Prince
http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF187-Way_Too_Much.png#178Elledge said:
Gold is only really good for negotiations and unit upgrades, and for a long time it just doesn't make sense to have huge piles of it sitting around. Gold that goes into your treasury is not going into research. If you buy a tech from someone with it, I guess that's ok, but it still may have been more efficient just to do the research on your own (unless you then sell it again to everybody else for much $$).
But really, having 2000 gold on hand is probably more of a psychological benefit than anything else, or perhaps just a "rainy day" fund.
Sisiutil
All Leader Challenger
That's pretty much it for me. I usually like to have 500 gold or so in reserve. This is just in case of a surprise enemy landing near my core cities so I can upgrade their obsolete defenders.Hans Lemurson said:
Murky
Deity
One other nice way to get gold is with a Great Merchant. You can even send them to other cities without having open borders. They have a special trade mission which usually nets a lot of gold.
Murky said:
I didn't know that a Great Merchant can go any where without having open borders. Learn something new every day. Thanks!
I do have a couple of questions about this:#1. Can your enemy attack and kill your Great Merchant?
#2. Instead of getting money, is it possible to use the Great Merchant to spy on someone without having open borders?
Datian
Prince
Murky said:
Hmm are you sure about that ?
Murky
Deity
Datian said:
A big pile of gold is not required for this. In fact this is a generally inefficient method of doing what you propose. If you had spent the gold on research before the war begins you would be X beakers ahead before the war started. During war you often have to sacrifice gold\production to keep your citizens alive. In addition you may lose a town/village to pillaging or be unable to work a tile because an enemy is standing on it.
Therefore you tech slower during war time compared peace time with all other things being equal. This means that during war time you do less harm to your overall research by dropping the tech slider down in order to finance running the culture slider at %10-30% to keep your citizens happy/alive during wartime. THe happiness bonus is not based on the amount of culture produced only the percentage you spend on culture. THis means that a culture slider set at 20% producing 20 culture/turn produces the same happiness as a culture slider set at 20% producing 10 culture/turn. You do produce less culture overall but that was not your original goal.
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