Here is my best effort to date on the new patch, turn 240.
This start was a dream, river, mountain, 3x wheat, enough lux and production.
Pushed out worker ASAP to farm the wheat, after meeting laventa i borrowed and bought temple and got desert folklore early. Added tithe, got prophets with faith and Hagia Sophia. Ultimately had a good 1/3 of the map under my religion which meant a lot of dough. Got Education at T78!
Planted GS up until Research Lab at T165ish. Popped every one after. Timed a GS and GE on same turn, saved him for hubble.
I had everything but the stasis chamber built at T222. Had to wait to plow through remaining techs to win by 240.
Things I should have done better / taken a different path:
*Moderated the balance of power better. Austria got beat down to just a city next to el dorado by T70 or so. She remained that way the rest of the game. Monty was reduced to just his capital around T150. Therefore both were always broke so i didn't think it was worth it to constantly pay their entire half of an RA. They couldn't even afford a loan. I had 5 RAs going with everyone else the entire game. Perhaps I could have shaved a few turns by sinking some money into bottom of the barrel RAs. But even before that I should have tried to keep them healthier by playing other civs against each other. I did manage to save Ghandi from destruction in the last few turns by paying off the Ottomans and get his RA to pop for the last tech.
*Allied with more City States. I had a lot of excess cash after T170 or so, and even here and there before that. I should have been buying more allies. I was afraid to upset their current allies and risk not signing RAs. What should I have been doing here?
*Had I been more agressive in gaining CS allies, it would be better to pursue Scholasticism over Planned Economy. I wasn't producing enough culture to viably go for both and went with PE.
To answer Snowbeavers above, I had 773 science in the end with a much larger population. To me it's all about research agreements and food. When I play non petra starts and only get 3-4 RAs per cycle, it never ends well. When I do win in those situations, it's more around T280 and more often than not computer won by then. That's why I say this is my best effort to date, since the patch came however long ago
Lots of failed games.