I'm 370+ turns in, and have yet to find another civ. Huge Map, 12 opponents, low sea level. I found 3 City-states, 1 who had already met somebody else, and 2 civs have been defeated... but no house warming gifts for me.
I am playing as Russia, kinda got stuck in a corner... tundra south and east, desert north, ocean west and above the desert to the north. St. Pete's is on the only tiny little patch of green anywhere near me.
Played 30 turns last night. Yes, my muscle-memory needs re-tooling--and I certainly missed the "Restart" button after my initial start had me on a narrow river between large swarthes of desert and tundra.
Ha ha, yes just like this.
Not complaining. Just observing.
I goofed on my first harbor city, didn't realize the aquaduct has to be adjacent to the water source. So my ship building city, stuck between desert and tundra, is never going to be that big.
Luckily, with Russia's faith boost, I bought that great engineer that boosts the no. of districts allowed in that city.
Also built the GLighthouse there. She's a beauty.
Oracle is buildable, if anyone was wondering after seeing that one Russia stream with the bug.
edit: Forgot to say, ha ha, I am loving the game.