Spending all the treasure

[Vanesita]

Would it be a good idea for a best science advancing to choose a 100% in science? I have seen that the advisor says "Our treasury is dangerously low" but there are no consequences and you can use the 100% in science even when you don't have money to support it.

Can I really do that? I know that I couldn't neither acelerate production nor upgrading armies with 0 gold, but I would want to know if there are more consequences if I do it.

Thank you!

 

[ecuwins]

Ignore the science advisor.

 

[Tone]

I have seen that the advisor says "Our treasury is dangerously low" but there are no consequences...

There are no consequences on Chieftain level.

For all other levels you lose one military unit or a city improvement each turn that you do not have sufficent gold in your treasury to support your expenses.

IMO this example is one of the reasons why it is best to go onto Warlord as soon as you can so that you don't pick up too many bad habits.

 

[Turkish Delight]

I am <u>sooooo</u>bad at spending like 90-100% on science research, getting yelled at by the advisor, and now I have the bad habit in warlord/regent of trying to top-up my science and losing units.

 

[Sweetchuck]

I've seen the science advisor say "please increase science funding" even though I'm busting out techs every 4 turns by managing the slider.

So, I'm convinced that if you see the science advisor say "we are progressing well due to generous funding", you're probably over-allocating science and wasting gold.

 

[Pyrrhos]

The advisors are useful for only a few things, but that is information, not advice!

Apart from "Our treasury is running dangerously low" the only useful info the Domestic Advisor supplies is to tell you how many turns will elapse when you change governments. Oh yes, you will be told if a city goes into riot - as if you couldn't yourself...

The Military Advisor will give you an idea of how the respective AI civs see your military strength. Other than that, he is clueless.

The Foreign Advisor will tell you who has declared on whom and if someone makes a pact against you (but not who have signed MP & RoPs...)

Other than this, they are of no use and should be ignored.

 

[Whythat]

The advisors are useful for only a few things, but that is information, not advice!

Apart from "Our treasury is running dangerously low" the only useful info the Domestic Advisor supplies is to tell you how many turns will elapse when you change governments. Oh yes, you will be told if a city goes into riot - as if you couldn't yourself...

The Military Advisor will give you an idea of how the respective AI civs see your military strength. Other than that, he is clueless.

The Foreign Advisor will tell you who has declared on whom and if someone makes a pact against you (but not who have signed MP & RoPs...)

Other than this, they are of no use and should be ignored.

On vanilla you get a little advisor that pops up on every trade telling you whether or not the AI is likely to take a deal. I use this to micro manage trades all of the time.

 

[TheOverseer714]

I've seen the science advisor say we are hopelessly primitive, we must increase science spending and the next thing say our research is going well due to generous spending. The advisors aren't very smart....

 

[Son_Of_Dido]

I've seen the science advisor say we are hopelessly primitive, we must increase science spending and the next thing say our research is going well due to generous spending. The advisors aren't very smart....

All the advisors are constantly campaigning for more funding/money for their department, always painting worst-case scenarios for what will happen if they don't get their money, repeatedly patting the leaders on the back and saying things are going great once they get that money, so as to positively reinforce funding increases.

Just like the real thing.

 

[Pyrrhos]

All the advisors are constantly campaigning for more funding/money for their department, always painting worst-case scenarios for what will happen if they don't get their money, repeatedly patting the leaders on the back and saying things are going great once they get that money, so as to positively reinforce funding increases.

Just like the real thing.

But the real thing delivers. True, not always what you asked and paid for and never exactly, but you do get something!