sea with river is prolly a great idea, hg gives +25% great people bonus with the gardens built (even if not next to river or lake) if cant get hg just get gardens later on after you get a marketplace. need to focus on high pop early on
gandhi's cities become good after 6 pop, which means if you only do 2 cities and are planning to win in a game with easy-medium players you are doing it wrong
mayans are prolly my fav for ICS, next to huns or spain
water city, try and pray on close range water cs states, and get as many as you can with merchants and have water caravans to them and back asap
good idea to try and go for currency for the specialist merchant to get the venice merchant faster
thanks now i know how to pyramid bank farm, ill go a step further and do a pyramid pyramid bank farm, ill build a pyramid of pyramid bank farms to farm the pyramid of pyramid bank farms