Game advice

[Willem]

Originally posted by Krill
Don't raise capital cities, keep them, the extra city will help you immensly

That's not necessarily true on a Huge map. That captured capital might be 15 tiles away or more, which is going to cost you alot more in maintenance.

[joncnunn]

It will still quickly pay for itself in maintenance as soon as it grows. While I sometimes shift the starting settler one tile it's never in a spot where a city would never pay for itself if your palace is on the same land mass.