I was thinking that it might fun to see how your "Earth" develops in this scenario. So post some stories if you have tried it. 
I started one game on it just to test it. Chose Egypt as I've always liked that Civ. Initial scouting went fine, found all my neighbours pretty fast and some of them blocked (Hittites, Sumer/Persia) my way to Europe and Asia so I could scout map only in Africa. My capital was unhealthy all the time (so many food plains) that I had to discover Naturopathy fast and switch to more healthier Civics (slavery too so I could hurry stuff) + build healer hut.. and then I noticed I was falling badly behind on settler race. Didn't get Amun-Ra religion.. don't know who found it, and someone found Hellenism and it wasn't Greeks/Roman!
So next thing was that Hittites built their 2nd city next to my capital - kind of knew it would happen sooner or later - I just hate those barbarian warmongers bringing their barbarian ways too close to my civilized world (in real life Hittites were enemy of Egypt). Now I have to build up army after I get my 2nd city up. Friendship with Greeks had unfortunate events too, 2 marriages in 2 turns failed and this caused -2 to diplomacy.. Hoping they won't send fleets to revenge those marriages (what can you expect when wives try to get those athletic husbands to do some household work.. "but honey, I need to workout 6 hours today, see this muscle? it's smaller than this one!" ..and then all hell breaks loose as wife looses temper...). Barbarians, bleh! I'm surrounded by them! I must quickly start diplomatic negotiations with Malinese, Zulus and Abyssinians.. though I have bad feeling about Zulus.
So here we are at the moment. Was kind of fun to see those religions spread out to who knows where and tension building up early on game with neighbor civs.
I started one game on it just to test it. Chose Egypt as I've always liked that Civ. Initial scouting went fine, found all my neighbours pretty fast and some of them blocked (Hittites, Sumer/Persia) my way to Europe and Asia so I could scout map only in Africa. My capital was unhealthy all the time (so many food plains) that I had to discover Naturopathy fast and switch to more healthier Civics (slavery too so I could hurry stuff) + build healer hut.. and then I noticed I was falling badly behind on settler race. Didn't get Amun-Ra religion.. don't know who found it, and someone found Hellenism and it wasn't Greeks/Roman!
So next thing was that Hittites built their 2nd city next to my capital - kind of knew it would happen sooner or later - I just hate those barbarian warmongers bringing their barbarian ways too close to my civilized world (in real life Hittites were enemy of Egypt). Now I have to build up army after I get my 2nd city up. Friendship with Greeks had unfortunate events too, 2 marriages in 2 turns failed and this caused -2 to diplomacy.. Hoping they won't send fleets to revenge those marriages (what can you expect when wives try to get those athletic husbands to do some household work.. "but honey, I need to workout 6 hours today, see this muscle? it's smaller than this one!" ..and then all hell breaks loose as wife looses temper...). Barbarians, bleh! I'm surrounded by them! I must quickly start diplomatic negotiations with Malinese, Zulus and Abyssinians.. though I have bad feeling about Zulus.
So here we are at the moment. Was kind of fun to see those religions spread out to who knows where and tension building up early on game with neighbor civs.
