The same has happened to me. I was playing Carthage and had to accumulate 12000 gold (sophtim's orders). I spent 20 turns trying to do this. Two turns before the deadline I had around 11000 gold and a healthy surplus of 700 per turn. Then it went from 11000 to 9000 gold in a single turn for no appar...

Is there going to be a beautiful deluxe edition, with hardback manual, for this fine game?