Best Starting Tiles to Work?

[Civvvvv]

Playing online speed, can someone rank these tiles in order of which is best to assign the first citizen to?

3 food 0 production
2 food 2 production
2 food 1 production
1 food 2 production
1 food 1 production 1 culture
2 food 0 production 1 culture
1 food 1 production 1 science
2 food 0 production 1 science

Also, I heard that when playing online speed, it is better to harvest stone than to work it. Is this true? If so, why? Is this true of any other resource?

 

[PYITE]

From your list the 2F 2P is best. But there is a lot more to it than that.... https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/to-hill-or-not-to-hill.606866/

Harvest away... stone, trees, jungle and anything that is not on a hex that is being worked. Harvest scales with tech - the farther along you are the higher the output. Try to use your chops and harvest while you have a civic modifier card in place like agoge (50% production for ancient and classic units). That's a 50% increase in the amount of production you get from the chop.

 

[Victoria]

From watching the good players in GOTM there is some value in the culture tiles also. The sooner you can get to feudalism/mercenaries, the better. Early knights are great for more than just a good sleep.

 

[Tabarnak]

Playing online speed...

3 food 0 production
2 food 2 production
2 food 1 production
1 food 2 production
1 food 1 production 1 culture
2 food 0 production 1 culture
1 food 1 production 1 science
2 food 0 production 1 science

Multiplayer is exclusively online speed so i can surely help you here.

If i have 3f0p tile i will make 1 turn of it then switch for 2f2p. Reason is that you i will produce the exact number of food needed to jump to 2 pop using that way(you will take 3 turns to reach 2 pop) and maximize production. You will still take 3 turns using exclusively a 3f0p tile so it's clearly a waste that way.

But if you have a 3f1p tile, keep using it until 2 pop then work a 2f2p tile until 3 pop(will take 6 turns total to reach 3 pop).

And if you have a 4f0p or even 5f0p(hello sugar) then keep working it until death

 

[PYITE]

From watching the good players in GOTM there is some value in the culture tiles also. The sooner you can get to feudalism/mercenaries, the better. Early knights are great for more than just a good sleep.

I agree, but likely the best option is one that wasn't a choice; that would be to settle on the culture luxury because you get +6 gold for trading it as well as that huge +1 culture from the start.