Okay, here's a 9 turn set PPP, with an early pause if copper is revealed in a location that affects City3's location. I've followed the discussion of the last few pages and mostly I've followed what pnp_dredd suggested (except for the cottage building

). I could play by Friday night, so comments in the next 24 hours please.
City builds: I propose generating the next worker in Moscow instead of St. P, so St. P can continue to grow and put out a workboat to start exploring (southeast?). If we go worker-settler in Moscow, then I think the settler gets to the City3 tile too early - no good defallouted tiles to work.
Moscow. Bur cap production/gold-commerce
- Finish worker 3 (2 turns)
- Worker 4 (3 turns)
- Settler to keep at happy cap (4 turns)
- Confucian Temple when religion spreads, for happy cap
- Confucian Monastery when religion spreads, for extra science
St. Pete's. This could be our shrine city (cottages) or it could be a production city powered by farms/mines.
- Finish chariot 2 (2 turns)
- exploring WB (<5 turns) to continue growth
- Not sure what next - Barracks? Worker 5?
City 3 will capture the ivory and be a moderate production city.
We don't yet have a proper GP farm site, and none is clearly visible.
Units
Workers: Two workers to farm the rice, Other two workers to road to the 1N-Of-Lake city and start cleaning fallout in those tiles.
Missionary: wait for auto-spread to Moscow, do not trigger.
Chariot #1 to carefully check out French lands. Chariot #2 to investigate the north. This is as per pnp_dredd's plan.
Tech path: We are currently earning 72 bpt at breakeven (90% slider). We finish Agriculture in 1 turn, then get BW in 2 turns. I say we go for Alphabet (6 turns) so we can trade techs for peace.
GPP and Espionage: Note that we are not particularly farming a GS at this point. We are very slowly getting a GPro due to Oracle GPPs. We continue to spy on Gandhi.
Questions
Q1. Religion: Shall we convert to Confucianism once it spreads to Moscow? We really could use a higher happy cap, and the only downside is diplo negs with Gandhi (who won't trade with us anyway). Gandhi is unlikely to declare on us. There seems to be little downside risk to converting.
Q2. Chopping: Just to confirm, what are we chopping for - the settler in Moscow?