NegativeZero
Warlord
- Joined
- Mar 29, 2017
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yes, selling all your strategics and luxuries let's you run a gold-based economy from the very early game. It's one of the reasons I've found that cutting out chopping didn't slow down my empire's development by much. It means districts are slower to get up, but districts are almost the only thing I hard build any more. Okay, that last point is an exaggeration, as a purely gold-based economy doesn't happen until mid-game, but the point is that buying immediately gets you what you want where you want, and the quicker you get to that point and away from producing anything except projects, the better. The new tradeable diplomatic favours should make it even faster to get to that point.
Diplo favor didn't look like the largest offender here as that currency looks rather valuable when the WC comes knocking.
Piecemealing out the strategics appears to be the issue here as Marbozir (in his Maori video) liberally dispensed his for large gold and diplo favor gains. I think he got 70 gold for 20 horses and 11 Diplo + some gold for 20 horses.
It just appears the AI is very very generous with their currency for strategics and sometimes diplo. favor.