Well, guys, I hate to be contraversial (especially at this late stage) but I wish to propose a change to the dotmap.
Having had a long look at the save, I feel that the previously agreed position for TT's 'yellow dot' will benefit from a move 1N - for three reasons.
1) In the position that I propose, the city will have access to 15 land tiles, including 4 BG's immediately available to it and access to the bananas with expansion, whereas in the other position it has access to only nine land tiles. I realise that this will require tinkering with Amsterdam's Settler factory, which I think is an acceptable trade-off given that there is not much expansion room on this map - it just ain't a 'Settler factory' kind of map, IMO.
2) We need to build tighter all round, IMO; we are 30 turns in and already more or less touch borders with three civs.
War is inevitable, and soon; it looks like a fairly small and crowded landmass, and I would expect us to own it sometime in the Middle Ages. Building just a touch tighter will allow us to push out more units, and give us increased unit support; it seems to me that this game won't last until the Modern Ages, so we are unlikely to miss the impact that big metro's can have. In short, I think a tighter core is appropriate for the kind of game that we are facing.
3) I've forgotten what the third point is
