Matty R
Veteran Newbie
Its on Noble difficulty, and I do actually mean 800 gold. 
Later in the game I can end up with over 1000 per turn and a substantial Army and Navy, but I only use them for defensive purposes.
I keep my cities close together, I usually have 4 or 5 shrines and I focus my specialist points into Great Merchants to use in my Wealth city. Once all of my Shrines are built, I use Great Prophets in my Wealth city. Sometimes Great Artists aswell. I tend to get 2 or 3 shrines in a single city, so that becomes my Wealth city. With Wall Street and the Wealth increasing buildings it can churn out a ton of gold. My Capital is usually my wealth city, so using Bureaucracy gives my gold output a boost.
I'm not one for wars. I just keep enough of my most advanced units along my borders to put off anyone thinking of invading. I regularly go through over 75% of a game with atleast 2 civs furious with me and no war declared.
I also get quite a few workers early on, to quickly increase populations and hook up resources. The sooner I increase the populations, the sooner I can use civilians as Merchants.
I use World Builder to scout my locations though. I don't like to put hours of work in only to find I can't cope with the environment.
While reading through the forums, I've noticed I do alot of things differently to (what seems like) most people. Works for me though.
If I remember, I'll get you a screenshot of my current game when I'm getting towards the end of the tech tree.
Later in the game I can end up with over 1000 per turn and a substantial Army and Navy, but I only use them for defensive purposes.
I keep my cities close together, I usually have 4 or 5 shrines and I focus my specialist points into Great Merchants to use in my Wealth city. Once all of my Shrines are built, I use Great Prophets in my Wealth city. Sometimes Great Artists aswell. I tend to get 2 or 3 shrines in a single city, so that becomes my Wealth city. With Wall Street and the Wealth increasing buildings it can churn out a ton of gold. My Capital is usually my wealth city, so using Bureaucracy gives my gold output a boost.
I'm not one for wars. I just keep enough of my most advanced units along my borders to put off anyone thinking of invading. I regularly go through over 75% of a game with atleast 2 civs furious with me and no war declared.
I also get quite a few workers early on, to quickly increase populations and hook up resources. The sooner I increase the populations, the sooner I can use civilians as Merchants.
I use World Builder to scout my locations though. I don't like to put hours of work in only to find I can't cope with the environment.
While reading through the forums, I've noticed I do alot of things differently to (what seems like) most people. Works for me though.
If I remember, I'll get you a screenshot of my current game when I'm getting towards the end of the tech tree.
) so you might not be able to load a save game. About 2 weeks ago I was playing a game, saved it then swapped 2 of my cities around in the XML files. When I went to load that game I got CTD every time.
