There is a surprisingly large part of me that is wondering if it is worth just revolting into Caste and losing the turn.
I'm happy with the plan around getting 8 settlers out. I can even stretch it to 9 to get every city settled. 3 on the island, 1 for furs site, 5 on mainland. But only 2 of these cities have inner ring food (Cities F and Z), then cities C and S have outer ringer food, as do the 3 island cities (5 total), and worst of all the furs city (N island B) and City Q are technically filler cities with no unique food resources. So most of these cities don't make much sense to settle before Caste is available.
The cost is significant: likely around 100 hammers and 50 gold (assuming no research which is reasonable, and wealth builds aren't double counted), and around 85 food. But it releases the tech path constraints and tech timings significantly, and it also saves me all the trouble around getting the GP out in the first and second golden ages with the tight timings. The main issue is that if the revolt occurred to early and I lost slavery, I might be ambushed.
OTOH, I might be able to get some court houses down, and then that might bring an earlier FP into play.
Something to ponder.
I'm happy with the plan around getting 8 settlers out. I can even stretch it to 9 to get every city settled. 3 on the island, 1 for furs site, 5 on mainland. But only 2 of these cities have inner ring food (Cities F and Z), then cities C and S have outer ringer food, as do the 3 island cities (5 total), and worst of all the furs city (N island B) and City Q are technically filler cities with no unique food resources. So most of these cities don't make much sense to settle before Caste is available.
The cost is significant: likely around 100 hammers and 50 gold (assuming no research which is reasonable, and wealth builds aren't double counted), and around 85 food. But it releases the tech path constraints and tech timings significantly, and it also saves me all the trouble around getting the GP out in the first and second golden ages with the tight timings. The main issue is that if the revolt occurred to early and I lost slavery, I might be ambushed.
OTOH, I might be able to get some court houses down, and then that might bring an earlier FP into play.
Something to ponder.