We played a few turns and things are starting to look bleak. I still have only met the egyptians and they clearly met more civs because they have 6/7 more techs than I do
Because I still haven't met the other civ, even pottery is costing me 200 gold. If I don't meet other civs very soon, I even have to pay that crazy amount of money otherwise I can't build a granary. Even worse, cleo know mysticism and won't sell, I'm still 20 turns away from it, and another 40 from poly, chances are I'm not beating my neighbours to poly. If so I face a really hard time to catch up in tech.
I don't know if Kemal has met more neighbours alrdy but if he's closer to them that would be quite unbalacing imo. We'll just have to wait and see.