Pro tip: When making a research agreement...

[dthompson32]

Be sure that you are offering 100 gold to complete the agreement...

NOT 100 gold per turn

Tossing away 3000 gold on one RA isn't really a good deal.

*face palm*

 

[DaveMcW]

Offer 4gpt+10 instead, this is good insurance against it being broken too.

 

[dthompson32]

Oh, what a great tip! Thanks!

The funny thing is my economy was running so well, I didn't notice until 25 turns into the RA. I'm still going to win this archipelago game slightly after turn 300.

 

[Sprenk]

I feel for you, dthompson! Didn't you get suspicious when your trading partner thanked you for the "generous" or "gracious" offer?

 

[dthompson32]

Honestly, I didn't notice until my golden age ended. I had just popped a few artists, so I had an extra long one going. Suddenly my little 4 city empire with no roads went -43 gpt, and I was freaked out. It didn't occur to me to check where the gold was going, I just figured I'd built too many buildings. So I kept fussing with settings and trying to get a few more turns out of my gold supply until I reached the 8th turn since finishing my research labs.

Then the RA completed, and I was at +74 gpt.

Must have sucked for the Incans to suddenly lose that much gpt.

 

[RedRover57]

I assume you are talking about the extra 100 that you need when you are an era ahead? You can also try offering 2 horses (or iron) plus 10 gold. I have had this accepted even though it didn't seem that the civ would still buy that strategic resource in a regular deal.

 

[petey]

Also, if you have a lot of cash saved up for the next round of research agreements and to gift to CS's when you get the Patronage policy which makes them more effective, when buying a luxury from a Civ for 240 gold, don't offer them 2440 gold for it, because they will say yes.