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"What is the shortest possible time for your first city to create its first settler, and how?"
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"Yes, 12 is the best you can do, at least without help from some extra irrigation or something fishy with the spacing of the specials. There are several combinations of forest, grassland, coal, oil and game that can be used to get there in 12 turns.
(You can get to size 2 in seven turns if you have, i.e., build on top of, an irrigated oasis, but to get to 40 resources in 4 more turns you would have to also have an oil patches within range of your city. Normally you'll need 5 turns on forest to reach 40 shields after reaching population 2 in 7 turns.)"
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I would like to answer this one again because I think the answer is one turn. Maybe some would call it cheating. But in your first turn you build your capital. When in your capital you sell your palace, and build some barracks. Pay the barracks off and switch to settler. You will now build your first settler. This works also on the higher levels without unsettling your city. but only in the first turn.
my questions are uber l33t! Ill tell you what is wrong, the problem is at physics... you cant research physics that soon, your missing a tech before it 
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