posted 01 January 2005 02:26 EDT (US)
I'm playing as the Scipii and am doing pretty well. Every city that I have conquered, I have just occupied. I've focused primarily on building up the economy. This helped in giving me 30,000 denari in my treasury. I captured Carthage and have expanded into the Greek Cities. However, now I have started to build a little more on the military, and my population in my cities has started to expand greatly. It seems now that every turn I am starting to loose money. Do you recommend that I give the cities over to the enemy and than invade and exterminate the populace, or should I conquer new territories, or both. Currently I am conquering more cities, but I would like to know if there is a way to start making money again.