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20xGoldenAge5 Golden Ages are periods of great flourishing for an empire, periods during which everything seems to be working just perfectly. They are represented by periods during which your civilization receives bonus Production Production, Gold Gold, and Culture Culture for a limited number of turns.

Mechanics[]

The normal process involves generating more 20xHappiness5 Happiness over a period of many turns. The excess 20xHappiness5 Happiness (i.e., every count of 1 above the 0 point) will be added directly into a Golden Age counter every turn. Note that if the empire is 20xMalcontent5 Unhappy, the counter will diminish per turn by that amount until 20xHappiness5 Happiness is increased.

Once the required amount of 20xHappiness5 Happiness has been accumulated, a 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age will dawn. During this time, all land which produces at least 1 Gold Gold when worked will produce 1 more, and Production Production and Culture Culture generation are increased by 20% in all cities. In addition, there will be no periods of Anarchy if you decide to adopt a social policy which is mutually exclusive with an existing policy.

Repetition[]

During a 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age, excess happiness will not count toward the next 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age; the counter will begin again at zero once the Golden Age has ended. Every subsequent 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age will require more and more 20xHappiness5 Happiness to be accumulated than the 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Ages which preceded it. Also, the number of cities in your empire increases the quota on the counter – with more cities slightly more 20xHappiness5 Happiness will be required.

Length[]

20xGoldenAge5 Golden Ages normally last for 10 turns, but there are also gameplay effects that will increase the duration of 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Ages, such as Chichen Itza, or the unique ability of the Persian civilization. All of these percentage bonuses stack and are applied all at once to the base duration of 10 turns; 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Ages can potentially last for 20 turns or more with the appropriate bonuses.

Alternative methods[]

Certain wonders and social policies can also begin a 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age. During this period, extra happiness still won't contribute to your normal counter, but in this case, after the end of the 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age, the counter resumes from the point where it was interrupted, not 0. In other words, there is always one and only one Golden Age counter, which is related to the "normal" 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age, and is not affected by "bonus" 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Ages. Note, however, that the "bonus" Ages still increase the amount required for the next "normal" Age. If a "bonus" 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age is triggered when the empire is already celebrating a 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age, the current 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age will be extended instead of starting a new one.

In vanilla Civilization V, all Great People could initiate a 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age for a shorter time than the normal one. The Great Person was consumed with the harsh downsides that every successive time, not only would increased GreatPeople5 GPP cost slow the next one, but repeating the Great Person action would come with diminishing 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age length down to a minimum of three turns. In Gods & Kings, this ability becomes the sole purview of the Great Artist. Its 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age lasts for 8 turns and doesn't diminish in length for successive uses, no matter how many 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Ages you start with Great Artists. As in the base game, the Great Artist is consumed in the process.

Strategy[]

20xGoldenAge5 Golden Ages are a useful boost in your empire's presence on the map - use them to gather more Gold Gold in your treasury by assigning 20xPopulation5 Citizens to work all Gold Gold-producing tiles, and to complete lengthy or important projects faster. Because of they way 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Ages interact with sources of Unhappiness (Civ5) Unhappiness (namely, few and small cities will lead to excessively high 20xHappiness5 Happiness and more 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Ages), and their lack of direct effect on Science Science, they should not be relied upon. A non-wonder 20xGoldenAge5 Golden Age is essentially time to catch up when expansion has not been possible, and propel the civilization towards either a powerful economic wonder, or the ability to buy key military units and prepare to expand.

See also[]

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