Good to know! We take him seriously for sure. He is the scoreleader now, but score is not yet a good indicator on how people are doing and oracle + oracle tech + possibly land from oracle culture affect his points pretty much.
Meanwhile we have some work to do.. Here is once again a new save stack as our current optimized plan is about to run out..
Couple of points regarding micro planning:
That said, I'm not explaining my approach apart from this info:
I grew our capital to size 6 while building a work boat (T81-83) and I like it. This will delay our 8th city by 2 turns (T90 vs T92), which increases the risk of someone else settling that land, but I'm fine with this move anyways.
Meanwhile we have some work to do.. Here is once again a new save stack as our current optimized plan is about to run out..

Couple of points regarding micro planning:
- I'm fairly satisfied with the result, there are many things that I managed to make work nicely. However, there are again many things that I know already that we will change, but the next 5-8 turns should be pretty solid
- I hope that you have time to play our sandbox once all the way to T100. I think that's the best way to get a feeling on how (crashed) our economy will be. Unit costs will play a significant role. Getting Calendar and luxury resources online will help a fair bit, but the grind towards Currency will most likely be slow.. New cities are going to cost a lot less than I thought since they off-set our unit costs, etc. etc.
- If you have time and interest, play a test run in our sandbox before looking my saves. At this point there are so many variables that you most certainly will do things differently. That provides a much better basis for our discussion since your thinking has not been influenced/corrupted yet.
That said, I'm not explaining my approach apart from this info:
I grew our capital to size 6 while building a work boat (T81-83) and I like it. This will delay our 8th city by 2 turns (T90 vs T92), which increases the risk of someone else settling that land, but I'm fine with this move anyways.