Just sharing..

[Sir Og]

I started a new game with Kubilai and the first four huts gave me: scout, AH, Fishing, and.....
Horseback Riding! (turn12)

Even Sitting Bull is a piece of cake to rush with a start like that.

[rah]

Sometimes LIFE IS GOOD. and sometimes LIFE IS EVEN BETTER.

[Theben]

So how many of your neighbors did you "share your wealth" with?

[Dinner]

I started a new game with Kubilai and the first four huts gave me: scout, AH, Fishing, and.....
Horseback Riding! (turn12)

Even Sitting Bull is a piece of cake to rush with a start like that.

I seem to normally get useless maps instead of money (which helps to keep research rates up) or techs (which are the most useful of all).

[Sir Og]

I also forgot to mention that I had horses in my capital.

The only neighbours I had were Egypt and Native Americans. There are also Greeks, Spanish and Carthagenians on my continent but I have not found them yet. BTW this is a raging barbs game which is slowing things down a bit because I need to take care of the barbs before I visit the neighbours.

[wodan11]

I also forgot to mention that I had horses in my capital.

The only neighbours I had were Egypt and Native Americans.

I would guess "had" is the operative word.

[Ming]

The Native Americans are "usually" a very difficult civ to early rush... but it sounds like they weren't much of a problem here

[Sir Og]

No problem indeed.

The only problems were distances and raging barbs. I could have wiped out two more civs if we were packed more closely.
With such great distances the far away civs had enough time to connect metals and even if I found them it would be difficult to choke them with only only one or two Keshiks.
It's a standard size fractal map with the standard 8 players but the empy space seemed to be more than usually on a standard size 8 player map.