You didn't follow my recommendations so, at this point, it is perhaps better to post a thread on S&T with your game and look for comments. Let's see people like this approach in your game. Post the current state of the world, the original game and, in you can find it, something around 2000BC. Pics help too. In any case, this whole question has gotten too complex for this thread.
If you have it, care to post the 4000 BC savegame here for others to download and play? Sounds intriguing.
What's the game speed, civ/leader, difficulty level, and map type you're using?
Sounds like the city governor (i.e. the computer) is automatically changing the tiles you're working based on what you're producing. Often it works well, but occasionally it can do things you don't want it to. To force a city to work the tiles you want it to (e.g. hammer tiles for more production), double click the city to open up the city screen. The white circles you see on the tiles are your citizens, and the little faces over to the right are your specialists. You can click tiles and use the +/- buttons next to available specialists to reassign your citizens as you see fit.
focus button is activated it seems to be less likely to do this, but I think it still does so on occasion.
Sounds like the city governor (i.e. the computer) is automatically changing the tiles you're working based on what you're producing. Often it works well, but occasionally it can do things you don't want it to. To force a city to work the tiles you want it to (e.g. hammer tiles for more production), double click the city to open up the city screen. The white circles you see on the tiles are your citizens, and the little faces over to the right are your specialists. You can click tiles and use the +/- buttons next to available specialists to reassign your citizens as you see fit.
Here, you might want to shift the white circles to all be on tiles which have a lot of hammers if you want to produce the Explorer fast. Just don't forget that once you start manually changing citizens, the computer will stop automatically doing it for you - so you have to remember to change it back later, or else your city might stagnate or not work newly improved tiles. The high-level players will usually place all citizens manually, but if this level of micromanagement does not interest you, you can always turn the city governor back on by clicking the relevant icon on the bottom of the city screen (to the right of the unit/building choices - mouse over the little icons until you find the right one).
Hope that helps a little.
No worries, glad to help!
), lamb and rather many floodplains could become a mammoth of a great people farm if I can manage the happiness and health (I first just saw two food sources). Production will be crap, but oh well. 
That's indeed quite a nice great person farm.I have a question as well, regarding coastal cities. Starting up this save again I see that the planned city spot with the crab (edit: not crap!
At least you have one hill and several forests for production - all you really need is National Epic (and maybe Globe Theatre later).It will be a coastal city. Diagonal tiles work just as well as adjacent tiles.
That's a tricky one... I couldn't say for sure without testing. My hunch is yes, but it's possible that it might not work.
Diagonally works just as well as vertically and horizontally for chaining farms.
Sounds like someone else built the wonder before you could. Only one world wonder is allowed to be built per game, so if someone else finishes the same one you were building before you do, then you cannot produce it any longer. (The hammers you invested get converted to gold at a 1:1 ratio.) Likewise, if you complete a world wonder, all the other players will then be unable to build it.How can you tell if your city is capable of producing a world wonder?
I've a city (The Hague from Holand) and it has much hammers, on Marathon speed it is producing Longbowman every 5 turns, which is quick. I asked for the city to make the Statue of Zeus, but after 5 turns it said it cannot continue making it
I do not know why. I'm Noble level BTW if that makes any difference.
That's indeed quite a nice great person farm.
It will be a coastal city. Diagonal tiles work just as well as adjacent tiles.
That's a tricky one... I couldn't say for sure without testing. My hunch is yes, but it's possible that it might not work.
Diagonally works just as well as vertically and horizontally for chaining farms.
Had started to road over to the gold site in the top right corner, but think I will stear the settler towards this GP farm site instead and hope the gold site doesn't get settled by Hannibal or somebody who might be to the north. Hopefully it connects to my capital directly as I've already wasted some worker time with the (so far) needless road towards the gold.
