GIII - February

I think that will be great improvement.but without luck, one must cost too much time to do it.
because it's AI-tech based strategy.

in this game, I enter MT not so early, and only fission, computer free get from AI, but later get many MT-tech
from AI,

in 5 of AIs, 2 of them grow big, and I gift them all my free
lux, resource, tech all through the game.
and I only built necessarily Wonder, leave many Wonders
to AIs, let them get more tourist incoming.

at later MT, the strongest AI even catch up with my research pace, 6 turn per tech.

I know this comes as an old and dead gauntlet, but since I played a standard Deity space map recently I found this interesting. I think AutomatedTeller might have gotten on to something when he said:

I am thinking that maybe more important than the pyramids may be the collossus and shakespeares

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I'll dare suggest that maybe you don't want a Pyramids-SGL for a fast finish date. Instead, use the early SGL for the Colossus for the city where you'll later build Newton's and Cope's (maybe Shake's also). I think you'll probably want Sumeria, the Ottos, or the Persians as your tribe. Hopefully, you get an SGL later on. Save it for Hoover's Dam in the modern age. Or, really, I think you can manage to delay Hoover's until you enter the modern age. Then, again, maybe it works out better for the AIs to have The Colossus so they have more tourist income and you can trade from them. This suggestion

in 5 of AIs, 2 of them grow big, and I gift them all my free lux, resource, tech all through the game.

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makes a lot of sense, I wish I had this before I played my game.

Later: If you can keep the AIs away from building the Theory of Evolution, another scientific tribe (Korea or Greece if you can luck out on a coastal start, or The Byantines) might actually work better with a Colossus SGL. You *might* also then pull off the Republic slingshot and build The Pyramids too if you like. The only problem I would see would come as getting enough territory if you played on a pangea map, as well as fast enough growth... although maybe you could do it, and maybe you don't need all that much. Maybe also, you could even miss Theory of Evolution and still get a fast launch date and trigger your GA in the modern era another way, say if you got lucky and had a privateer still floating around somewhere and you played as The Byantines.