I always felt the bottom was falling out of the market cuase so many people where like me, bugged into not actually gaining gold. So all the gold i got had to be from selling resources. Combine that with the fact that even now that I am getting gold, between my 3 towns I recive about 10k in taxes however on the wood side of things(all 4 resources actually) I recive about 250k an hour so doing the math here i make 25 times as much wood as gold. so 1 gold for me is = to 25 wood or as the market would have it .04 gold per chunk of wood. Yeah..... i'm still making a killing of selling my resources. Not that I sell alot since level 6+ buildings and reaserch gets really expensive. I mainly do as another user posted sell my resources for the gold to reaserch, usually to reaserch the tech that gives you extra resource percentage bonuses. Am I doing it wrong? Dunno but last time I check I was rank at 126th by prestige.