This is going to get us nowhere so here's what I propose. I noticed that there is already another succession world thread. If any of you absolutely cannot wait, then join that one. As for me, I would suggest that we wait for the inevitable bugfixes. Even in the other world succession they've noticed a couple of bugs. There's nothing worse than playing something you've anticipated for a long time only to find out it's unplayable. We've already waited for an year and a half since the thread was made, I'm sure we can wait a bit more too. I would suggest that we fiddle around with the game on singleplayer for a bit so we get accustomed to the bugs and new features of this release, as to not immediately die when we start out in frustration. The Mastah and I have known each other for a long time, and thus I shall try to get things going with him.
So far for world settings we are in favor of Big world, short history and medium number of civs and beasts, which sounds quite a stable play to me.
On the note on the turn list, that shall be sorted in two ways. The first would be to get the latest turn list manually, which is not that hard to do and the second is to redo the turn list. I personally am in favor of the former but with confirmation from each person.
The time we wait for a bugfix can directly be observed on how many bugs are fixed per hotfix. If the number of bugs fixed is large and the time between these fixes is short, then we will be able to wait less. Hell, if you want to make it even faster, you might as well go on a bug hunt and report them in the "Bug Report" Forum Category.
If anybody disagrees, has new ideas or suggestions, now is the time to speak them out.