Is this game dead?

No, it's not. We're just not playing that much. The year is now 3150 b.c., just got a city out of a hut (but pretty remote unfortunately)

Okay, so I chopped the forest with the game on it. What should I do there next, mine it or irrigate it?

Oh yeah, it's now turn 22 and I'm building a granary. And let's count, I believe I've gotten three techs and a city out of goody huts.

Irrigate the game, you need the food more than the production.

Yeah. If I need production I could still switch to the forest tiles of course.

Turn 38

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Finally build my second city, although I got one from a goody hut. That one is far too remote atm though.
I'm building my third city or fourth city next to the fish, and the other one next to the game in the east. There's a lot of ivory there, that'll be my first luxury.

Those spanish have taken the only horseys in sight...[punch]
Currently researching iron working, I hope there's some iron near.

Turn 62

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I'm waiting for the first Spanish city to flip. I've secured 1 iron source from the Spanish, horses are further away. I'm building two barracks, I need defences. I think I'll get me some spanish cities as well. Killer is entangled in a war with the Germans, so he's tied up atm (but he'll probably get some elites out of that war...)

What are the odds of a filp Shabba? This is a perfect excuse for you to click the link in my sig and use it!

The odds of a flip, 0.47%. In 30 turns, the period in which I'm fairly sure that I'll show up at their gates with a force of swordsmen, that chance'd be 13.11%.
Actually, that chance is higher in fact: my culture is now 367, his 109. The difference is that I have temples and they don't. So, in 30 turns, with 4 temples, I have at least 120 more culture (assuming that they won't build any more cultural buildings...), even more since some of the temples are over 1000 years old. By then, the chance is about 0.63%

Woohoo!

Well, they only got 3 cities anyway, and I'm not really expecting their capital to flip, so I'll do it the old fashioned way.