Nice guys don't keep other players waiting.

Settling:
This strategy works best next to a river with many hills. Buy workers or take them from City States as soon as possible and get building mines so that your wonders are built quicker. Build on any luxuries and export them as soon as possible. Then build farms next to your river. As soon Great Library becomes available switch citizen focus to production and leave it there. Your early wonders will supply enough food.

Only build one city so you don't take up too much room so other players can expand. You want them to come to you, not the other way round. Be hospitable!

Tech list:

• Pottery
  
• Writing
  
• Archery
  
• Mining
  
• Bronze Working
  
• Animal Husbandry
  
• The Wheel
  
• Mathematics
  
• Calendar
  
• Philosophy
  
• Drama and Poetry
  
• Theology
  
• Trapping
  
• Horseback Riding
  
• Currency
  
• Civil Service
  
• Education
  
• Masonry
  
• Construction
  
• Engineering
  
• Metal Casting
  
• Guilds
  
• Machinery

Policies:
Make sure to tag the tradition tree first.
Then take aristocracy so that your wonders build faster.
Tag Honor to unlock Statue of Zeus.
Finish Tradition.
Finish Honor.
Tag Commerce.
Finish Rationalism.
Get to Autocracy and make a beeline for Clausewit's Legacy.

Production queue:

• Scout
  
• Scout
  
• You can usually get a couple of turns shaved off granary here.
  
• Switch from granary to Great Library as soon as it becomes available, choose Drama and Poetry as the free tech.
  
• Temple of Artemis
  
• Statue of Zeus
  
• Hanging Gardens
  
• Oracle
  
• National College
  
• Water Mill
  
• Granary
  
• Mint / Market
  
• University
  
• Oxford University
  
• Aqueduct
  
• Workshop / Forge
  
• Ironworks
  
• Crossbowman (Until your GPT matches your GPT from exports.)

Being a good neighbour:

• Your scouts should find between 1-3 neighbouring Civs.
  
• Always swap embassies with your new neighbours and sell them your luxuries for the highest price you can. You will need to spend any gold you accumulate on 1 or 2 workers as soon as you can. Later it can be spent on caravans, then emergency ranged units and eventually courthouses.
  
• You can build a fort on a luxury resource to cancel a trade.
  
• Once you have your army of Crossbowmen, build a single melee unit and then it is time to say hello to your neighbours.
  
• Once you have knocked on your neighbours doors long enough, send your melee unit to say hello.
  
• Once you are invited in to their lovely home be sure to be a good guest by selling as many religious buildings as you can while it is razed to the ground.

More to come in the next update.