Spoiler :(1) Hit the Worlds Fair on first proposal. I proposed Arts funding, which was fine, but with the Worlds Fair, I would have powered through more policies faster.
(2) Didn't tech Astronomy fast enough - met other AIs relatively late, WC wasn't founded until the 160s.
(3) Delayed starting Golden Ages until after Universal Suffrage. I had Chichen Itza and ended up leaving 10 turns of Carnival on the table. Wasted in an effort to outsmart myself
(4) Should have gone Autocracy, as the biggest cultural AIs weren't really running away. The 250 for Futurism actually would have gotten me home faster.
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(1) Yeah, in retrospect WF would probably have been faster than Arts Funding. WF on Immortal is pretty annoying though. When you are that far ahead you will end up building nearly the entire thing yourself, which is still worth it but it always feels miserable to delay all the other stuff you were doing.
(2) I think I went Printing Press or Acoustics but on this map I think it actually might be best to enter Renaissance with Astronomy, to get those WC proposals, Observatories, and extra trade gpt rolling as fast as possible. Prebuild Triremes and upgrade of course. Just as long as you are far enough ahead to do that and still get LToP, GT, and SC.
(3) I did the same. It's just really tough to gauge 60 turns in advance how long it will take you to overtake the AI's culture. You don't want to run out of carnival later on, when you have so much more base tourism for it to multiply. Still, I way overdid the GA stockpile. I ended with 6 turns of Carnival left + 1 GA already spawned = 18 turns on the table, and hadn't faith-purchased any GAs yet either (I had used the faith on GE/GS/GMs instead). Based on the current faith and FPT I could have easily bought two GAs before those turns ran out. So thats 42 turns. Figure in one GA to spawn naturally somewhere in that time, and that's at least 54 more straight turns of Carnival. So in retrospect it definitely seems that the GA spam should have been started earlier.
(4) I hadn't thought of that. I'm not sure that I agree, particularly if you pass WF to steam through Aesthetics/Rationalism. That way you can beeline Media Culture as soon as you hit Radio. I haven't done the math but intuitively it shouldn't take too long for the BTs to overtake what you could have gotten from Futurism.
(2) I think I went Printing Press or Acoustics but on this map I think it actually might be best to enter Renaissance with Astronomy, to get those WC proposals, Observatories, and extra trade gpt rolling as fast as possible. Prebuild Triremes and upgrade of course. Just as long as you are far enough ahead to do that and still get LToP, GT, and SC.
(3) I did the same. It's just really tough to gauge 60 turns in advance how long it will take you to overtake the AI's culture. You don't want to run out of carnival later on, when you have so much more base tourism for it to multiply. Still, I way overdid the GA stockpile. I ended with 6 turns of Carnival left + 1 GA already spawned = 18 turns on the table, and hadn't faith-purchased any GAs yet either (I had used the faith on GE/GS/GMs instead). Based on the current faith and FPT I could have easily bought two GAs before those turns ran out. So thats 42 turns. Figure in one GA to spawn naturally somewhere in that time, and that's at least 54 more straight turns of Carnival. So in retrospect it definitely seems that the GA spam should have been started earlier.
(4) I hadn't thought of that. I'm not sure that I agree, particularly if you pass WF to steam through Aesthetics/Rationalism. That way you can beeline Media Culture as soon as you hit Radio. I haven't done the math but intuitively it shouldn't take too long for the BTs to overtake what you could have gotten from Futurism.