shaglio
The Prince of Dorkness
Kind of related - it irritates me how all of the 2nd ring tiles are acquired first before the 3rd ring tiles. Basically have to buy any 3rd ring tile if you want it anytime soon.
That said, the only way around that I suppose would be some kind of bias. Like, as soon as your city is founded it calculates the fastest way it can get the most number of resources as soon as possible (So then it would be possible for some 3rd ring tiles to be gained before the entire 2nd ring is complete). That would require the game calculate that as soon as the city is founded and recalculate if another civ took a tile first, I suppose that could slow the game down but I don't care tile acquisition is too generic as is. Wouldn't mind terrain/feature biases as well (eg you get rainforest tiles first if playing as Brazil or Kongo) but that is probably getting off topic.
Civ 5 was originally like this, but they changed it in a patch so that a city would spread to a 3rd (and even 4th) ring Resource tile before all the 2nd rings were acquired. I wonder why they reverted back to the Civ 5 vanilla method?