I was trying to figure out how best to use the dense build strategy in the early portions of the game, while working towards an optimal city placement for the hospital era. I developed this grid format to try and help for planning purposes.
The placement of all (y) cities should allow for all terrain to be exposed and workable without the necessity of cultural expansion.
Legend:
X - city placement for OCP
Y - city placement for Dense build
The purpose here would be to crank out as many cities as possible in a dense build, and then abandon the cities identified as the dense builders when OCP is desired. I would put something in the name of the city to identify this city as a future ghost town.
These cities would not build any key cultural buildings etc, but would serve only as settler, worker and unit factories. Couple this strategy with the Pyramids and Sun Tzu's, and you can't go wrong.
Edit: Wrong picture attached
The placement of all (y) cities should allow for all terrain to be exposed and workable without the necessity of cultural expansion.
Legend:
X - city placement for OCP
Y - city placement for Dense build
The purpose here would be to crank out as many cities as possible in a dense build, and then abandon the cities identified as the dense builders when OCP is desired. I would put something in the name of the city to identify this city as a future ghost town.
These cities would not build any key cultural buildings etc, but would serve only as settler, worker and unit factories. Couple this strategy with the Pyramids and Sun Tzu's, and you can't go wrong.
Edit: Wrong picture attached