I want to elaborate on all of that, but getting way off topic, now.
I tried a start similar to this one last night..... In this game, those Temple of the Deeps are in about 1/5 provinces, WHY have I never heard of them before? It's ridiculous.
But, overall growth is just a bit slow. I'll try again, fiddle with it a little bit. But not until I start mass Transforming these Capricorns, I'm just too excited for it. I don't know why, but something with such an unknown random factor really makes things a lot more fun for me.