Pinstar
Ringtailed Regent
So I was playing my first game as the Ottomans. I wasn't intending to be agressive, but my neighbor Monty kept inviting me into wars, first against the Iroquois, then the egyptians. In both cases, the civs in question were quite weak and their cities held luxury resources I needed, so I happily joined Monty in his wars. Since I had a pretty expansive empire naturally (I went down the liberty tree) I didn't have a lot of happiness to spare, so every city that I took, I puppeted.
This worked out quite well for about 90% of the game. Then I got to the modern era, and my GPT. I was in a golden age for about 15 turns because I had one from the Taj, combined with a 'natural' one from happiness overflow. When I emerged from that golden age I sudden had....-200+ GPT. I had built up my military a little bit so I checked my gold panel... but my military was only taking up about 200 of my 1000 gold per turn expenses. My road system was about 100 gpt (I had a pretty expansive empire) That left 700 to all come from buildings. My puppets had gone mad. Barracks, military bases, stables, Space ship factories they were all building all kinds of crazy military structures when they would never produce a single unit for me. I didn't have the room in my happy cap to annex them all and tell them to knock it off, so I was forced to bunker the cities that I DID control down to making nothing but gold buildings except for the few that were doing my spaceship parts.
I was able to pull out a science victory in the end, but not before losing several military units (which was bad because Monty could have done some serious damage to me if he had declared.)
This worked out quite well for about 90% of the game. Then I got to the modern era, and my GPT. I was in a golden age for about 15 turns because I had one from the Taj, combined with a 'natural' one from happiness overflow. When I emerged from that golden age I sudden had....-200+ GPT. I had built up my military a little bit so I checked my gold panel... but my military was only taking up about 200 of my 1000 gold per turn expenses. My road system was about 100 gpt (I had a pretty expansive empire) That left 700 to all come from buildings. My puppets had gone mad. Barracks, military bases, stables, Space ship factories they were all building all kinds of crazy military structures when they would never produce a single unit for me. I didn't have the room in my happy cap to annex them all and tell them to knock it off, so I was forced to bunker the cities that I DID control down to making nothing but gold buildings except for the few that were doing my spaceship parts.
I was able to pull out a science victory in the end, but not before losing several military units (which was bad because Monty could have done some serious damage to me if he had declared.)
