Quite a concern, isn't it? I think we have to hope that if it does fall, it falls before we even start researching Myst. As it is, we finish Pottery around T45 and can then save gold until T50, T51? We could easily get Sailing and AH in the same time frame as researching Myst, Medication and Priesthood, and get an island city down for the extra commerce. We would likely have to get Archery, but may be able to survive with out that if we have horse and copper. We don't need Myst though, the only city that needs to pop borders is city 6, which would likely be settled for dry corn, plains sheep and overlapping the plains forest deer at the copper city. We'd probably have to settle cities 6 and 7 right up for the furs, and I also think we would need to scout the island to the far north for whales and pray to go there was something up there.
We'll also have to divert significant resources to exploration so we could try and trade one of the furs away for something, and I would probably say we'd have to head for Currency and the cheap markets. With just furs it's not great, but we can always pray for whales and a tradeable ivory.
We'll also have to divert significant resources to exploration so we could try and trade one of the furs away for something, and I would probably say we'd have to head for Currency and the cheap markets. With just furs it's not great, but we can always pray for whales and a tradeable ivory.