The spreadsheet is due to Offa, and it is a godsend. Thanks a lot, Offa!
And we may be low in postcount, but I'm absolutetly positive that we #1 in wordcount after your posts CF.

But that is of course no excuse for not joining the discussion. *me dives right in*
So, it seems we are more or less decided on moving SE. The only reason I can see for not doing this is that it costs one turn, but since we will have access to the grassland cow from day 1 we will grow
two turns faster, so any lost commerce and production from that turn will be quickly regained. And CF is of course correct about the commerce in our center, for some silly reason I didn't test it with our own civ (Byzantines) but with the Ottomans who came up as default, so I never got the seafaring bonus. Good catch.
I definitely don't think we should join the worker to the town, we will grow fast enough as it is and the worker is a lot more worth doing improvements, especially considering we don't suffer from a despotism penalty. With the rapid growth of our town I think roading the town we stand on first is a good idea.
Early build sequence, well, I'm torn between a warrior and a curragh. I really want to make contact with the AI before they manage to research our starting techs (Alphabet and Bronze Working) so that we can trade them for a number of first-tier techs. On the other hand an early warrior can be used as MP to improve our own research. I'll need to do a few spread sheet examples to get an idea of what I prefer. I'm not too curious about what's to the south of us, that can wait IMO.
Researchwise I agree with a quick run for Literature. Nothing else is all that important at this point. After that I hope we'll have traded for Pottery amongst other things, so MM for galleys would be nice (unless we can trade for that too of course). And I really have to strike Republic out of my mind, I don't know how many times now it has popped up unbidden

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Off to do some spread sheets now. But if we're all decided on moving SE, why not do that then and post a screenshot?
Roster:
- CommandoBob
- Niklas
- ControlFreak
- McLMan
- zyxy
- sercer88