Running out of gold on map in 1v1.

[ΛƘ 420]

What can I do? I ran out of gold and began chopping wood all over the map to sell it for a miserable sum to sustain my army.

[yujiri]

this is normal in 1v1s if a game goes long. you end up being forced to transition to units that don't cost gold. those units of course tend to be less powerful, so are called "trash units".

taking relics can mitigate the gold starvation, and planning your expansions throughout the whole game so that you take more of the neutral golds than your opponent.

[DesertRose92]

Convert Wood into Food via Farms and sell Food.
Train mostly units that cost no gold and use your gold to train siege units.

[KingKickAss]

That's the trash wars phase. There isn't really a magical way to keep the gold flowing at that point.

[low_apm]

send trade carts to enemy market, not only do you get gold, your disrespect will tilt your opponent

[ΛƘ 420]

Thanks for the tips guys!!

[Buntkreuz]

Thats pretty much the phase of a material war then. At that point the player who manages his/her resources the best, can stay afloat longer and thus win the attrition.
A long, often boring, death.

[Kasbfaäfad]

Originally posted by RetroRebel:

What can I do? I ran out of gold and began chopping wood all over the map to sell it for a miserable sum to sustain my army.

Do Cav Archers once with your gold, never lose them and add constantly new hussars 11

[Boshiken]

1. Market

a. you can Trade - prefer Food
b. you can sneak Market Carts to the Enemy Market

2. Relics

[General Oliver]

to save on gold, try not to buy upgrades for things that you know you won't be using during the match. like stable upgrades if your not using cavalry. some people always think that they need everything researched. this could save good amount of gold for units. 1v1s are rough when gold runs out.

[Plokmijnuh]

I'm assuming this is a 1v1 game where trading aside from maps like Marketplace with neutral markets is not really possible.

One thing I'll say is find relics. Relics are equal to 1 fully upgraded gold miner (both gold mining eco upgrades) or 1.3 gold miners if you are the aztecs with the (+33% more relic gold.) A map can have 5 relics in most cases so grabbing 2 or 3 is a big difference in the long term.

Selling excess resources at the market. Obviously this is better to maximize early as you get diminishing returns as the game goes on.

Map control. Scout the map and try and take the neutral gold mines or at least attempt to deny your opponent from getting additional gold mines.

But the biggest thing is having a game plan for the Civ you are playing as. This means knowing what units are best to use and tech into. Obviously you don't need every upgrade. And prioritizing upgrades based on the units you will be creating is very helpful long term. Fully upgrading any unit is a big cost in gold both for the direct unit upgrades and any techs from say the blacksmith.

For instance, if you are doing a knight rush, you should hold off on getting Infantry armor or Archer armor upgrades. This will save food and gold. Ballistics and Chemistry are also not must have techs if you're focusing on knights instead of archers. Those are two of the more expensive gold techs at the university.
So learning that you don't have to get every single upgrade but only upgrading what you are using is a big boost to your resource management.

[cmp-202]

La alternativa que te comentan está bien, puedes jugar unidades que no cuesten oro, sin embargo en esas circunstancias, el jugador que pueda producir un poco de asedio o algunos caballeros tardíos suele ganar. Para sacar estas poderosas unidades en el momento clave cuando no queda oro, solo hay 2 opciones.

1.- Ser sarraceno, que tiene bonus de mercado, lo que te permite vender a mucho mejor precio que el rival y mantener producción de unidades fuertes sólo vendiendo madera.

2.- Comerciar con el rival. En 1v1 se puede comerciar con carretas con el mercado del enemigo al igual que harías en TG, pero debes hacerlo con cuidado de que no te vea y cuando el mercado enemigo esté expuesto.

La primera opción es circunstancial, no siempre jugarás sarracenos, pero la segunda la puedes aprovechar a tu favor en todas las partidas, ya que ambos jugadores necesitan un mercado para vender madera y producir algo de oro. Sin embargo la segunda opción se considera en la comunidad "irrespetuosa", por eso los pros no suelen hacerlo ni en los torneos más importantes, pero es una opción legal y que se debe exprimir cuando las circunstancias lo exijan.