The FP doesn't just reduce corruption overall- it also almost completely eliminates it in the city it is built in. So it makes the most sense to put in a moderately corrupt second or third ring city. And you should not build it in a city 2 tiles from your capital.
As to the wonders, don't build any that take more than ~40 turns. You'll never get them in time, and it will eat up production.
You say that 11 is your biggest amount of cities? You really need to build more settlers. And yeah, don't build cities that close to each other. What you have done is known as ICS, or "Infinite City Sprawl". That is useful in highly corrupt areas where you can build specialist farms, but not in the core of your empire. In the core, you want 4-5 tiles between cities to maximize the land usage.
Why are you building aqueducts in Samarra and Ellipi? They're not growing.
And why in the name of the RNG gods have you improved your terrain like an AI? You've irrigated all that grassland, despite the fact that irrigating grassland is useless until you get out of Despotism, and even then, it will leave you with little production. The cows and the wheat should be irrigated, as they have a food bonus and cain gain from irrigation, but the rest of the grass can't. And you have a Golden Age?
You want to wait to get that until you leave Despotism (the penalty for tiles producing more than 2 food makes Despotic GA's much less helpful) and gain a decent amount of productive land.
As to the wonders, don't build any that take more than ~40 turns. You'll never get them in time, and it will eat up production.
You say that 11 is your biggest amount of cities? You really need to build more settlers. And yeah, don't build cities that close to each other. What you have done is known as ICS, or "Infinite City Sprawl". That is useful in highly corrupt areas where you can build specialist farms, but not in the core of your empire. In the core, you want 4-5 tiles between cities to maximize the land usage.
Why are you building aqueducts in Samarra and Ellipi? They're not growing.
And why in the name of the RNG gods have you improved your terrain like an AI? You've irrigated all that grassland, despite the fact that irrigating grassland is useless until you get out of Despotism, and even then, it will leave you with little production. The cows and the wheat should be irrigated, as they have a food bonus and cain gain from irrigation, but the rest of the grass can't. And you have a Golden Age?
You want to wait to get that until you leave Despotism (the penalty for tiles producing more than 2 food makes Despotic GA's much less helpful) and gain a decent amount of productive land.
, just my first Regent win 
![[party]](/images/smilies/partytime.gif "Party [party]")
