Novice - thanks for the info, I was wondering if I was right/wrong
Nakor - your beeline to CoL is a sound strategy in this scenario. Usually courthosues are a waste of time early in the game since they are expensive and don't help the economy that much (cities have to be really large in order for maintenance costs to get noticeable), but our courthouses are (1) double the speed and (2) 50% more effective than normal ones are. We should definitely consider whipping them in our future cities. I wouldn't try to produce the Oracle, though. I think we have better things to do than build a relatively expensive wonder without marble or the industrious trait - we could get an extra city. And no tech trading is on so we can't take advantage of a free tech for trade reasons. I also don't think we need Iron Working this early - we already have copper (or will have it), and axemen are generally better than swordsmen anyway.
I agree with you about the worker. Usually when I play civ games, I send my first worker with the settler so the second city gets improved ASAP, then have another worker from the capital finish the road connection. The bonus for improving the copper/rice/cow in the city outweigh the benefits of getting trade routes but no improvements. Follow your plan you stated in post 114 (or I can do it if I manage to log in and play our turn). One thing I noticed is that you are goign to farm before roading the copper -
I would advise that you road the copper first, then farm the rice. The sooner we get copper connected, the sooner we can breathe easily.
And also ... my worker-warrior-settler plan was to keep the capital at size 5 and whip for 2 only when we are producing our settler. I'll check the game and see if whipping the worker is feasible. My guess is that it is, since we've got plenty of food right now for fast growth.
I am really curious as to which city is best for city #3 - the gold one, or a city in between our capital and the second. There's the risk that Dantski will found a city between ours - not a situation I like (on the other hand, it's probably not a situation he likes since his city will be surrounded both ways). I think it's safe for us to go to the gold city and then found a city between city 2 and our capital as city 4. What do you think?
Reminder: work the rice, so the city grows to size 2 ASAP, then we whip the monument (
unless the copper gets improved before the city grows to size 2 - in that case it might be best to save our whip for something else, like an axemen or barracks, if necessary). My estimate is that we will not have to whip our second city for the monument since we'll be getting 5 hammers (it's on plains, IIRC) from the mine.
The game is getting exciting now.
-By the way, I have been checking the game more often recently. You're doing a nice job nakor. The worst of my work has passed, and while there is still a lot to do, I will try to play some of the turns and analyze the best city builds but only of we both agree on our plans.
