This is impressive. Turn 254 on Immortal diff and already building SS parts, 8 turns from WL election, making 166 Gpt without external trade routes (not a single one ? Ever ?), having managed to contaminate your continent with your religion, and last but not least making 1200+ beakers per turn. On Immortal I can make 1200+ beakers too with my four cities, but on turn 350, not 250
The earliest victories I was able to achieve so far were a diplo win on turn 327 (Immortal) and a space win on turn 348 (Emperor), I really need to focus a lot more on science and specialists... Anyway thanks for the thoughts guys.
Thanks. That was the turn before the win. The capital is 1 turn away from the last piece, 1 is sitting next to it, and I had just rush-bought another.
Well, luck played a big factor for getting a win like that, as I said I don't usually do that well. Without the religion thing I would probably get the win turn 300+ as well. And getting that was dumb luck. The continent split was 5-3, with me on the one with only 3 civs. Apparently Portugal and Netherlands don't focus on religion? The previous 4 are all founded in the other continent, then I got the 5th one without even trying
(I think it was mainly because of that nearby faith CS that always seems to give me good, easy quest). So it contaminated my continent by default, I didn't build even a single missionary 
. Plus I got tithe and sword to plowshare out of it, so it was really strong for the strategy. I was actually upset that I got the 2nd great prophet a few turns before hitting industrial era, there was no good things left to take, would rather save the faith to buy great people instead.For the gpt, as you can see in the screenshot my cities produces around 200 gpt, I got 100 from tithe, and another 100 is from city connection. The capital's improvements is hybrid farm and trading post, so it has decent gold income (it can afford to do that because my 4 maritime CS is providing enough bonus food). The other city is a jungle science city, which got a ton of trading posts, of course.
I did have some external trade routes earlier in the game, but not after the second half. I would be leaking too many beakers to the AI (it was 13 bpt at the end) and the food/hammer transfer is just much more useful.
