Being the richest country in Civilization 7 can bring many benefits, instant production of troops and buildings and easily cover the maintenance costs of the army, each civilization needs a reliable way to generate income or gold, There are many best ways to generate gold. First, don’t overbuild the city, manage your maintenance costs, etc.
How to obtain Civilization 7 gold
Before discussing the best ways to generate gold, you need to learn how to view global returns. You can open the Global Revenue Segment window by clicking the icon for any resource value on the top panel of the screen. This window contains your gold, food, happiness, culture, technology, influence and production income.
Don't overbuild the city
While every settlement can be converted into a city with gold, having more cities than small towns is not a good idea. Maintaining the city and transforming it into a thriving community takes time and resources, and if you have too many cities, you can’t concentrate. Since all production in the city may be converted into other resources such as culture or technology, the city does not produce enough gold compared to small towns.
The town converts all its production directly into gold, which makes it a great source of income, especially if it has some unique trade resources available for export.
Construction revenue generates construction
Under the production label for each settlement, there will be a gold icon showing the buildings that can produce gold. Building high-income buildings should bring considerable income to players, but the gold generated by building "ageless" buildings is better. Ageless buildings can exist across multiple eras, so they will continue to provide gold for your civilization, making it almost necessary to build ageless buildings in small towns.
Pay attention to other resources, too. You may lose to other leaders in terms of technology and culture.
Manage your maintenance costs
Gold is used to pay for maintenance costs for units and buildings. If you don't build enough gold-generating buildings, your city may experience negative revenue, which can be viewed in the Global Income Segment window. In addition to these buildings, the army also consumes a lot of revenue. Just being a soldier can cause your income to be negative.
If you are ready to fight, you should act quickly in production and execution. You don't want those troops to exist for a long time. If you are a pacifist game style, then as long as you are good at leveraging the fortifications, a few armies are enough to protect your civilization. Even at a disadvantage in numbers, the army stationed in the fortifications can defeat other armies.
Implement social policies for producing gold
Implementing social policies can greatly help you maintain the resources that civilization lacks. Whether it is adding happiness, culture, technology or gold, you want to choose policies that can coordinate with each other. All leaders have a great mix of social policies because they are not locked through specific leader policies or traditions: tariffs and laissez-faire.
Tariff – +50% trade income, but city happiness -3.
Laifax – Increase +2 gold and +1 happiness for every resource imported.
The goal is to establish multiple trade routes with other settlements, and to obtain as many unique trade resources as possible, such as camels, silks, whales and all resources that can be imported. With every import of one resource, you can get more gold and happiness, and having more resources can also bring more trade income because you are still actively exporting resources.
Utilize merchants and trade routes
Following the previous method, establishing a trade route should be necessary because it is almost like free funds. You have to research the technology needed to unlock merchants of that era and start producing merchants. Find unique resources you don't have and try to import these resources into your civilization by establishing trade routes.
You can't trade with unfriendly or hostile leaders, so improving relationships with other leaders should be one of your goals, too.
