Yes, 8 is a filler city, hence #8 (well after CoL and probably a couple wars). Since he's financial, it will at least provide him with some marginal revenue from coastal tiles and trade routes, some extra population for score and victory conditions, and potentially another resource since there's some fog still there (although I wouldn't bet on it).
Since I was thinking of doing 4 after 5 (meaning it would probably be settled after an early rush if he kept a few AI cities and waited for a better economy), I was assuming he'd have iron working and enough workers to dig it out of all that jungle. Moved up 1N it would be better, and with all those grassland tiles, a great commerce city (should be able to cottage 18 or so tiles, which is Oxford/Wall St material, plus with a few hammers to help the production). It's a late-game investment city, with potentially huge payoffs - better than any other save 3, imo.
Since I was thinking of doing 4 after 5 (meaning it would probably be settled after an early rush if he kept a few AI cities and waited for a better economy), I was assuming he'd have iron working and enough workers to dig it out of all that jungle. Moved up 1N it would be better, and with all those grassland tiles, a great commerce city (should be able to cottage 18 or so tiles, which is Oxford/Wall St material, plus with a few hammers to help the production). It's a late-game investment city, with potentially huge payoffs - better than any other save 3, imo.
