Originally Posted by
sparkz
Im almost 46, produced gold since I was 30.
Being low level means you cant afford building enough marble quarries and hardwood sawmills to handle gold mines. That is because you didnt conquer enough territory, you didnt clear all the boss camps (and therefore didnt get all the +10's) and didnt get all the quest gold to upgrade your resource production. With production properly set up it is possible and not even hard, to maintain all 8 mines WITHOUT having to spend a dime on Ubi stuff. You just need time to set it up and some careful planning.
About cost effectiveness: ive already posted it like 10 times on these forums: right now you will get more gold selling the resources you need for the mine and production facilities. The gold thats circulating the market is LIMITED though, so sooner or later someone will have to start producing coins, also since more and more people will have the demand for gold (upgrades or trading), prices will drop. It will certainly reach a point where a) whatever you produce will take longer to produce and sell than straight up coin making and b) building materials will be much cheaper.