The Worker was involved with chopping out The Oracle.
I believe the thinking was that we were going to attack the Korean Hindu Holy City and the Korean Capital with Horse Archers (that ignore Protective Drill promotions). There was some debate as to whether this would be better done with Hwachas, but we've gone with the horsies.
At this point we were discussing options for The Oracle, but Alphabet seems a popular option.
We can also consider the value of whipping out some Granaries as a precursor to whipping out a Horse Archer invasion force.
I'd be happy for the rest of the roster (esp. woopdeedoo and FiveRings) to confirm or amend this thinking and comment on lymond's proposals.
Fine with me.
@ Lymond:
All wrokers are where there was something to chop to speed up the Oracle.
The monument in Horse has been agreed as first build, the investment in a monument in BoS was a mistake, indeed, should have been in a granary.
BoS is underdeveloped as there was a Barb archer to NW and no fog-busted land to NW, W, or SW (no anticipation of AIs borders to shield us from Barbs), so chariot (or 3 warriors in another scenario) was the agreed priority production there.
Arguably, it could have been better to build infrastructure in Frown despite the Barb Warrior in its vicinity (killed a couple of turns ago), but except for the glimpse of some American borders to the NE of it, nothing very much assured of no additional barbs around.