Redwaller66
Chieftain
Hi guys, I am in a pickle, and after trying to troubleshoot it, have given up and am asking you.
I am currently playing noble game difficulty with the ai all on noble as well. I am playing on the biggest map size and the slowest game speed. I am the Jivaro civ and I am still mid way through the prehistoric era (just researching barter now.) I have played for 1500-2000 turns. I have four cities relatively close to my capital (culture boundaries joining them together for the most part). For the last 500-700 turns I have had, for the most part, positive gains each turns in money/turn. I have done this by having two of my cities at any given time converting its shields into meager wealth and switching them up. I am the top civilization out the 5-7 that I have discovered so far, with 30+ more points than anyone else.
Just about 10-20 turns ago I had 10 and then 7 gold per turn. Suddenly about 10 turns ago I received a notice that my city of Jablanica has become unhappy. It was producing meager wealth at the time. My gold per turn turned into -60 ish. I had over 2000 gold stockpiled so I didn't panic so much yet and I ordered a sage hut to be built in that city to add some more happiness. Next turn I get a notice that my city of Carthage had become unhappy, and that my gold per turn had turned into -150 ish. Quite baffled, I quickly ordered a harem to be built in Carthage to add happiness.
In two turns, I had 4 more turns for the sage's hut to be built, and I had built the harem. The happy/unhappy ratio in Carthage had become 1. Thinking that would solve half the financial problems and I'd just have to wait the 4 turns for the Sage Hut in Jablanica, I put Carthage back into producing meagre wealth. Unfortunately, that only put my wealth per turn to about -130ish. Thinking I had to have a net happy city, I built a bonfire in Carthage, which was finished at the same time that the sages hut was in Jablanica.
That did not help the problem. I switched Carthage back to building meager wealth and my gold per turn went to -112. Jablanica was borderline happy like Carthage was, but a dance hut or something like that to add a it more happiness would take 8-12 turns to complete, so i switched production back to meager wealth after arriving at the conclusion that the happiness was not the root of my money problems. At this point I had/have -100 /turn, and 1000 gold left in my treasury. I have 5 more turns until barter is done being researched. Oh, and I didn't mention it, but all this time I had scientific funding to 0%. I checked up on the economic adviser screen, all the city screens, espionage screen, civic screen. In the economic screen it was -80 gold for building maintenance, in one of the city screens, the closest city to my capital, Carthage said -60 something for building maintenance. I have many buildings that generate wealth and production. Thinking that perhaps some other civilization is sabotaging something with an invisible unit, I have decided to build a rogue in Carthage so that I can see if there are any invisible units in my city. Nothing has been destroyed.
Any suggestions or ideas on what the heck can be going on? I have 9-10 more turns until I am bankrupt.
I am currently playing noble game difficulty with the ai all on noble as well. I am playing on the biggest map size and the slowest game speed. I am the Jivaro civ and I am still mid way through the prehistoric era (just researching barter now.) I have played for 1500-2000 turns. I have four cities relatively close to my capital (culture boundaries joining them together for the most part). For the last 500-700 turns I have had, for the most part, positive gains each turns in money/turn. I have done this by having two of my cities at any given time converting its shields into meager wealth and switching them up. I am the top civilization out the 5-7 that I have discovered so far, with 30+ more points than anyone else.
Just about 10-20 turns ago I had 10 and then 7 gold per turn. Suddenly about 10 turns ago I received a notice that my city of Jablanica has become unhappy. It was producing meager wealth at the time. My gold per turn turned into -60 ish. I had over 2000 gold stockpiled so I didn't panic so much yet and I ordered a sage hut to be built in that city to add some more happiness. Next turn I get a notice that my city of Carthage had become unhappy, and that my gold per turn had turned into -150 ish. Quite baffled, I quickly ordered a harem to be built in Carthage to add happiness.
In two turns, I had 4 more turns for the sage's hut to be built, and I had built the harem. The happy/unhappy ratio in Carthage had become 1. Thinking that would solve half the financial problems and I'd just have to wait the 4 turns for the Sage Hut in Jablanica, I put Carthage back into producing meagre wealth. Unfortunately, that only put my wealth per turn to about -130ish. Thinking I had to have a net happy city, I built a bonfire in Carthage, which was finished at the same time that the sages hut was in Jablanica.
That did not help the problem. I switched Carthage back to building meager wealth and my gold per turn went to -112. Jablanica was borderline happy like Carthage was, but a dance hut or something like that to add a it more happiness would take 8-12 turns to complete, so i switched production back to meager wealth after arriving at the conclusion that the happiness was not the root of my money problems. At this point I had/have -100 /turn, and 1000 gold left in my treasury. I have 5 more turns until barter is done being researched. Oh, and I didn't mention it, but all this time I had scientific funding to 0%. I checked up on the economic adviser screen, all the city screens, espionage screen, civic screen. In the economic screen it was -80 gold for building maintenance, in one of the city screens, the closest city to my capital, Carthage said -60 something for building maintenance. I have many buildings that generate wealth and production. Thinking that perhaps some other civilization is sabotaging something with an invisible unit, I have decided to build a rogue in Carthage so that I can see if there are any invisible units in my city. Nothing has been destroyed.
Any suggestions or ideas on what the heck can be going on? I have 9-10 more turns until I am bankrupt.
