Why does gold matter? it doesn't seem to matter much

[Jaybe]

Max production/gold/combat penalty is 40% due to unhappiness.

 

[holywar]

I thought at some point the game says you don't have enough pop to support x number of units? Surely, that would have been applicable.

 

[Quineloe]

Troll post... But I see what the OP did thar.

I don't really see how this is a troll, it basically shows that the game doesn't really penalize a massive money deficit enough. If you're in such a high deficit, the game should disband 3-4 units every turn, sell buildings and science should pretty much stop. It sounds to me like there's no difference between sitting at -1 and -2000