[socralynnek]

It all depends on which players you are playing against. But normally you can expect in a pitboss to have some neighbor which is kind of aggressive, especially if the neighbor sees that you don't have much defense.

Seems like some more people have moved instead of settling, so others might have the same roblems as you have.

I don't know whether moving the Settler again is worth it, but I am no expert in capital city placement anyway.

Settling in place might be alright. I guess, at some point you need a city on the island with ivory, whether you use the ivory in your capital or not.