Domestic Consulate: Density of Future Cities

In the long term, it seems like we will be shooting for 130,000 culture victory. Discuss, while it may be early, future settlement density, whether we are far from 130k or even if we don't go for 130k.

Questions:

* How many tiles (on average) do you think a city should claim? >12 (needs Hospital), =< 12 (no hospital), or tighter?

* How far apart should future cities be? Does this depend on how close they are to FP / Palace ? Again, as with the first question, do we want them to be far apart and have long-term potential, or would we rather them be placed tightly together and utilize the maximum benefits of a tight build for lots of culture?

* Do we ever want to move the Palace? I will place another discussion for this and FP when we get 14 cities, but for now with early judgement, do you think it is advisable to move the palace since ours is coastal? If so, what is a good area (any range of tiles, or a city (doesn't have to be our nationality))?

- Be advised, in a government besides Communism, far away cities will be corrupt and add to the OCN. Perhaps in the long run Communism is advisable...

The game could be over before we ever research Medicine, so I would say we should allocate 13 useable tiles per city.

We should keep this spacing within the "core". We should then use CxxxC spacing out to the edges of the empire until we reach close to the domination limit. At that time we should fill in from the outside back close to the core with ICS spacing (CxCxC).

I agree with Moth's suggestions for city placement.

Re moving the capital, I'm not sure. If we were playing Vanilla or PTW I'd say yes. The rules have changed in Conquests making a capital move less desirable, and I've never moved my capital using the current patch so I'm not sure what the effect would be. With that said, if we decide to relocate our capital, I'd suggest we consider the area where Rotterdam or perhaps the Hague are located.