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-You have a starting location with a lot of high-food tiles and very little production
-Or you REALLY have a lot of good spots for cities.
Otherwise, Tradition is almost always the better choice.
1. Build. You don't build monuments, at all. You also ALWAYS start with two scouts.
2. Liberty. No. Liberty is bad, tradition is better in every way even if you go wide.
The Great Library is an overrated wonder, and on higher difficulties, it is pretty much impossible to get. If I'm going to go for any of the Ancient Era wonders, I usually focus on the Temple of Artemis because the growth bonus from the ToA is useful civ-wide for the ENTIRE game, and the bonus of producing archers faster early on can be a life saver if you have an aggressive neighbor to deal with in the early game.
If you're playing a Civ that is more effective at building tall, such as India, THEN you should worry about it. Because that will be the only time Worked-Tile Overlap will actually occur. But for a Civ like Rome, who gets build benefits for each building in your capital, you can afford to overlap your cities quite a bit, so long as you keep getting Luxuries and can afford to upgrade the tiles.
Who the heck starts a game off building a worker? Building them takes too long and you'll get left behind in ancient ruins. Building monuments make more sense, But you'll still lose out on quite a few ruins. Hence, why building at least two scouts is better than leaving yourself blind to settlements from foreign civilizations.
Going for Liberty when your a tall focused civ like France, Inca, Babylon, Korea, Venice, etc is a stupid idea. Why would you spend your efforts going for a tree that favors city expansion when tradition helps with having fewer than usual cities?
The Great Library is too unviable to go after in higher difficulties because of the AIs huge tech advantage. Difficulty 4 and 5 is the limit to when you can reliably get this wonder.
Opening anything other than scout first is absolutely horrible play, and opening anything other than TWO scouts first is poor.
9 games out of 10 you should open Tradition, and the 10th game, you should think about Liberty, then open Tradition anyway.
Great Library is a trap wonder. It is available when you should be focusing on getting 3-5 good cities, libraries up in each, then racing to the National College. Building the Great Library, or *any other early wonder* before you've settled 3-5 good cities, is actively sabotaging yourself. The only early wonder even vaguely worth rushing is the Temple of Artemis.
Always remember population is science, and science is power.
Players following this turkey guide will find King difficult.