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[Emu]

any ideas on getting lots of gold early on normal civ5 no add on, can get my science high just need gold for research :)

[Mazey]

The best way to get Gold if you only have the normal Civ V is to go to the store page and buy the "Gold Edition Upgrade" that way you'll have Gold.

[Roskilde.]

haha

[Twelvefield]

It's hard to get a lot of gold in the early game. Beeline research to Currency and build markets, that's a start. Raid barbarian camps and pick up goody huts. Research setting your cities to produce wealth. Trade your resources for gold. That's all I can think of. I don't think any of those strategies is all that good, because you need to be building other things to make your civ progress in the early game. It's not until Banking, Stock Exchanges, & Mercantilism that you can start to rack up a lot of gold.

[Tripas]

Just play as Portugal .

[Ryika]

There's quite a few things you can do.

- Sell luxuries to the AI, preferable those that you have multiple exemplars of
- Sell strategic resources to the AI
- Build you cities on rivers and next to luxuries that generate gold (and work them of course ^^)
- Build as many markets as you can (and a bit later: Specialize a (few) city/cities to making gold. Build a market, build trading posts etc.)
- Connect cities with roads, but not too early or you'll lose money as every tile costs 1 gold

You might also go barb hunting, every camp gives you gold. However, as units are really squishy in vanilla Civ 5, you have to be careful.

On the other hand, there are also some things that you might stop spending money on, if you did so far:
- Don't put army-production/EP buildings into every city, instead, specialize a single city to army production
- Don't over-produce army, instead try to keep your army small but upgrade
etc. etc.

[Shinja]

>Be Austria
>Buy city states rich in luxury resources

[SenecaAthena]

Road connected cities with markets and Machu Pichu built is always one of my goals to overcome gold shortage early on. When looking to found my 2nd or 3rd city I always keep this in mind.

Though it takes longer than 1 turn to build a road segment and you'll only get taxed for a completed road segment, only use a worker 1 turn on a projected road traject, until you're ready to finish the complete infrastructure. Micomanagement though.

[L0g1st1cs_Man]

Early trade routes, sell horse and iron for 2 gold each(sold one at a time this works) to any civ that wants them. Markets, Bank on cities with 10+ income(seen in city screen). Go to Techs with trade routes quickly as possible. Sell resources to Civs. Work tiles with higher gold when needed, and select gold focus in one high gold producing city "IF NEEDED" but don't forget to return to other focus's when no longer needed to produce hammers or what ever...

[Tripas]

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE, NECRO THREAD!

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Tripas:

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE, NECRO THREAD! :summerghost: :summerghost: :summerghost:

Its like people think they're helping, oblivious to the fact the person who posted originally posted it over two years beforehand. I can't imagine the OP still needs advice, not to mention some of the given advice ignores the whole NO ADDONS part of it.

[L0g1st1cs_Man]

The thread shows up on top of the list for a few seconds and people just happen to see it so they help... Took all of 10 seconds to type it up... Then there's the fact that someone else might like the topic for help also...
Oh well...

[Lucas]

I dunno, I ain't speaking for the quality of the feedback given (ain't saying it's bad neither), but I found this thread on google, probably because of the 2016 activity so... Eh?

[Main Character Syndrome]

play as venice, oh wai...

[Tripas]

Originally posted by EpicPathsS:

play as venice, oh wai...

It's been a while since I played Civ5 but... did something happen to Venice?

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generally liberty has more gold issues than tradition, but i guess you just have to deal with it / work plantations untill you get currency