The Power of Golden Ages

[Jaroth]

Does anybody else find golden ages to be extremely powerful? They've really saved my butt quite a few times and have gotten my empire crankin'. It's like city Viagra!

I think my next game will be with Persia to try out their unique ability.

I guess since production is more scarse in this game, along with commerce, that the extra +1 each really makes a difference.

 

[Gath]

Definetly, i scheme to get them stacked as high as possible. Longest golden age so far was about 40 turns.

 

[Gurd]

Yeah, a single Golden Age is nice but chaining them makes it just insane - especially if you have a nice amount of cities.

 

[SuperJay]

Abso-friggin lutely. Chaining them is too (?) powerful. Time a 'natural' one with some GPs and then Taj Mahal and you're... well, golden.

Is it Macchu Pichu that gives you +50% GA duration? I built that last time around, right before a chain of 6 golden ages in a row, and the resulting wealth and production was ridiculous

 

[HamTard]

Golden age are a critical part of te Civ V economy that a lot of Civ IV players haven't learned to use yet. It's critical for keeping positive cash flow with large late game empires.

 

[Fieryphoenix]

My largest was more than fifty turns. I was Darius, and had built the wonder that lengthens golden ages, and the social policy that lengthens them, and it was triggered by building the Taj Mahal. I went more than 70 turns total in golden age, with additions from great people, etc. This was on Quick speed.

 

[Thoughtful Thug]

I tend to spend less during Golden Age so I can have some cash remaining during the time when I am in the negative of how much gold I am not producing. Usually the plan is to get as many Golden Ages I can while I am producing many units. Don't care for the diplomacy and other objectives beside warmongering - since they are quite dull if you ask me. This is a game for warmongering.

 

[SuperJay]

My largest was more than fifty turns. I was Darius, and had built the wonder that lengthens golden ages, and the social policy that lengthens them, and it was triggered by building the Taj Mahal. I went more than 70 turns total in golden age, with additions from great people, etc.

Wow. That's like the perfect storm of golden awesome.

 

[effexop]

Golden age are a critical part of te Civ V economy that a lot of Civ IV players haven't learned to use yet. It's critical for keeping positive cash flow with large late game empires.

That may be actually because the unit maintenance is badly calculated to the late game via inflation.

 

[Zechnophobe]

@HamTard
The effect of a Golden Age in Civ 5 is almost exactly the same as in Civ 5, I don't know why you make it sound like it's somehow different.

You can actually calculate the total gold and production as a sum. They have greater impact on larger (more tiles worked) empires, and are less effective for specialist economies than in civ 4 as they do not increase GPP.

There are however, many more ways to get them, and increase their length. While it is cool to have long golden ages, there is no technical benefit to having them back to back as opposed to with small gaps.

Shouldn't you be using the first golden age as Darius helping you build the Taj Mahal?