Peacefanatic
Chieftain
We would lose 2 turns to settle there. Also we would only have 6 grassland tiles that way. Do you think that is the best option?Think you have to settle 1e of the plains hill now, an extra hammer always makes for a nice start but gold should be more important.
Gold is also sweet with 2x 6tiles.
The spots I marked on the map are bad?
Damn, that's nice. I would never think about that.With regards to telling your rough position on the equator, another way to tell is to look at forests. In order of poles to equator, forests take the form of snow-capped pine trees (I...think those are pine trees), regular pines, oak trees (the more circular trees 2N of the Gold), and finally Jungle. Usually your position on the map is relatively obvious, as in this case where there's a snow-capped pine forest to your south so close to the southern pole, but rarely the best hint you'll get is that there's (for example) pines to your north and oaks to your south. In that case you're on in the northern hemisphere, roughly between the equator and the poles.