Gold

There are a number of different ways of obtaining gold in GoldenTowns.

In GoldenTowns, players are exposed to a variety of ways to obtain gold. Either by exchanging goods in the market for gold, selling your workers for gold, selling your army, selling your shares/bonds, selling referrals for gold, buying gold from a gold trader and lastly by mining gold just like the way you collect goods from your production buildings. (If I do miss any ways of obtaining gold, please feel free to correct me by contacting me through the contact form and I will correct it asap, thank you!)

However, unlike the production buildings, the resources required is dependent on the amount of gold that has been mined for the past one hour of global gold mining activity. GoldenTowns came up with a system that automatically adjusts the amount of resources required to mine gold in order to set a balance for capping gold mining activity (specifically, if three gold is mined before an hour has passed, the resources required would be increased by 25% and vice versa, a decrease of 25% of the resources required if it takes the community longer than an hour to mine three gold.). So in other words, the more resources you have, the better chances you have in partaking in the gold mining activity each time since the amount of miners would increase day by day as more players join this game!

Though it may seem rather clear cut on how to obtain gold by mining, the journey to get a gold mine up and running is not so simple! In order to build a gold mine, you will have to ensure that your town's happiness is at least a certain percentage. (50% as stated in the website for now.)

EDIT: As of 11th of September 2013, I personally found out that there was no restriction on the percentage of happiness in order to mine gold! I have confirmed that this restriction was lifted by GoldenTowns for now!

And just like building a gold mine has its restrictions, the other ways of obtaining gold has its own restrictions too! Here are the summaries on restrictions for each different way of obtaining gold:

• For selling your resources for gold, your town's happiness level would have to be 60%!
• For selling your worker for gold, your worker's life span has to be above 30 days!
• For selling your army for gold, your army's life span has to be above 30 days as well, along with the restriction that the army has to be in town!
• For selling your shares/bonds for gold, you would need to have gold to buy them first in order to sell them!
• For selling your referrals for gold, your referral has to be at least level 3!
• For buying gold from gold traders, you would need real life money, isn't it obvious!?
• For mining gold, you would need a town happiness of at least 50% and all the resources that is required to build the gold mine and the mining fee! (As of 11th of September 2013, I personally found out that there was no restriction on the percentage of happiness in order to mine gold! I have confirmed that this restriction was lifted by GoldenTowns for now.)

And even if I have just listed the summary of restrictions, there are still tons of restrictions restricting those restrictions!
Lightheaded now are we??

I will try to update this page with more details in regards to obtaining gold whenever I have more information on hand, so stay tuned for those updates!

*The information that I have provided may be incorrect due to the game just being released. Therefore, if any of you do see any incorrect information posted here, please do feel free to let me know. Thank you.