How to raise Gold in Civ 6 Gathering Storm?
- Review your government policies and ensure the most efficient selection is made.
- AI trade is vital to raising gold, especially at the early stages of the game to buy a settler or a builder.
- Luxury and strategic resources
- Diplomatic favor
- Relics and other Great Works
- Trade gold per turn for lump sum to raise funds quickly
- Sell Open Borders
- Arrange Joint Wars and get paid handsomely. Check out Soger’s how-to video.
- Improvements / Resources: Make sure the gold producing resource tiles are improved. Many improvements provide higher yields as you make your way through the civic and tech trees.
- Manage your citizens to work high gold tiles or focus city output on gold.
- Add “specialist” citizens to the existing commercial hubs, harbors and encampments.
- Run district projects in many of the cities late in the game: Commercial hubs (commercial hub investment) would be the main source, but also Harbors and Encampments have projects that generate some gold.
- Reyna’s Forestry and Tax Collector promotions.
- Send envoys to the trade city-states. You don’t have to be a suzerain to receive the bonuses. 2 gold + 4 gold +6 more gold for each building.
- Send your spies on “gold siphoning” missions to drain your opponents of gold, high chance of success.
- Pillage at war, use naval raiders for civs that are further away
- Lastly, determine what requires so much maintenance. Check your military expenses, some units might have to be disbanded.
If you find that a denouncement is coming or you are about to go to war, then make sure to grab as much lump sum from that leader as you can in exchange for gold per turn. You can then declare war on them which breaks the deal of paying back the loan, but you get to keep the lump sum.
Bankruptcy in Civ 6
In Civilization 6, bankruptcy represents a critical turning point that can have far-reaching consequences for your empire. This occurs when your civilization’s expenses exceed its income, leading to negative gold per turn. The repercussions of running out of gold are severe, impacting unit maintenance, causing your military to disband, and halting the growth of your cities due to discontent among the populace. Furthermore, it hinders your ability to engage in diplomacy, as you cannot afford to trade or maintain alliances. Recovering from bankruptcy requires careful management, such as reducing unit maintenance costs, increasing gold production through trade, city projects, and adjusting policy cards to boost your economy. It’s a strategic challenge that tests a player’s ability to adapt and recover, mirroring the complex financial balancing act of leading a civilization from the brink of economic collapse to prosperity and dominance on the world stage.
However, it doesn’t really impact your early game if you have friends and do not need a huge military. Amenities are also not as much of a concern. So advanced players would borrow as much gold as possible from the AI to keep expanding the empire faster earlier.
