Did you oracle monarchy?
One option would have been to oracle CoL (that would have gotten you a religion) and then self-tech monarchy, both provide happines and thats dandy.
One more city, 1W of the peak, that way it can grab some good river tiles, and the wine+wheat.
When you build some wonder that generates other points than scientists, you usually let that city work cottages only, and other cities work scientists, that way the "polluted" city never catches up and you can get at least two scientists.
You want at least two, to bulb astronomy.
Your beeline goal now (or possibly after monarchy+CoL) is optics.
That means metalcasting, ironworking, machinery, compass... Most of them provide no immediate benefit, but optics and meeting the other AIs are huge and Astronomy is gamechanging.
I think it was overkill to build boats for all the crabs right away, will be hard to utilize all that food.
Some workboat should probably have been sent out to scout and possibly find AIs, or at least get knowledge of your landmass.
How is the barb situation?
One option would have been to oracle CoL (that would have gotten you a religion) and then self-tech monarchy, both provide happines and thats dandy.
One more city, 1W of the peak, that way it can grab some good river tiles, and the wine+wheat.
When you build some wonder that generates other points than scientists, you usually let that city work cottages only, and other cities work scientists, that way the "polluted" city never catches up and you can get at least two scientists.
You want at least two, to bulb astronomy.
Your beeline goal now (or possibly after monarchy+CoL) is optics.
That means metalcasting, ironworking, machinery, compass... Most of them provide no immediate benefit, but optics and meeting the other AIs are huge and Astronomy is gamechanging.
I think it was overkill to build boats for all the crabs right away, will be hard to utilize all that food.
Some workboat should probably have been sent out to scout and possibly find AIs, or at least get knowledge of your landmass.
How is the barb situation?