Let me start by saying that although this was a pretty entertaining game, I will NEVER play OCC on my own initiative. 1st time I've ever tried it and the handicaps and change to play style were "interesting".
So, I checked out the very nice starting dirt and made for the river/hill next to the mountain (Observatory seemed like a good idea with only 1 city). I went Scout > Monument > Shrine > Library > Oracle > NC.
My Warrior stole an early worker from Germany who gave peace shortly thereafter. This was the only worker I had the whole game. Researched Pottery > Writing > Mining > Calendar > Philosophy. As I was tech'ing so fast and had already scouted my whole island, I made a quick detour to Optics and sent my Scout for a swim.
Everything was pretty uneventful for the first 240 turns. Germany and America wanted me to DoW the other, but I declined and no shots were fired on our island at all until much later. I was just building every bit of infrastructure I wanted and grabbing Wonders I never even consider.
Full list of Wonders in order:
-Oracle
-Hanging Gardens
-Chichen Itza
-Sistine Chappell
-Porcelain Tower
-Eiffel Tower (GE)
-SoL
-Big Ben (GE)
-Hubble (natural GE)
-Neuschwanstein
I was lucky my Warrior found a neglected Faith hut t25. Pantheon was Earth Momma. I was able to found 3rd religion and took Tithe and Swords Into Plowshares (didn't plan on doing much warmongering). I figured religious buildings were somewhat useless in OCC. I enhanced to Religious Community and Religious Unity (but no CS ever adapted my religion and I made no attempt to spread). I planted my 3rd unwanted GP.
Right about the time I found the 3rd big landmass, Shaka and Oda were just finishing off France. It looked like the Incans were going to be next out, but they lasted until around t320 and were a good trading partner, but they did cause some problems with my diplo very late when they asked me to denounce Ashurbanipal.
I'm friends with everyone and got the tech lead before the 50% mark. I planted 4 GS. I built no units until very late (just bought a few Bowmen and Military CS gave me enough units that I felt pretty secure.
First World Council came up around t140ish and I did NOT want to propose World's Fair (kinda hard to win with 1 city). Since I had a bunch of Wonders I proposed World Heritage Sites, which passed. Sadly,someone else did propose WF and I spent enough time to get a silver medal and not 1 turn longer.
I was first to Ideologies by quite a bit. I was considering Order for the extra science, but figured building 1 fast Factory wasn't as good as the Freedom tenets. About 20-30 turns later everyone else started getting Idologies, America and Zulus went Order, Ashur joined me in Freedom, and everyone else went Autocracy. This is where the game got very silly.
Washington had proposed World Ideology Order, and I must have agreed to vote against it on accident. When vote came up t240ish, I only had 2 delegates and voted for it to keep him happy, However, he blamed me for its' defeat, immediately denounced me and then he and Shaka double DoW's me. I wasn't too worried as I had Foreign Legions by then and a good tech lead. However, the psychos never even fired a shot at my lands, instead spending the next 25 turns killing off all of my CS allies. This cost me as I went from 50 FPT back down to 20 FPT and this cost me at least 1 GS.
Next, out of the blue, Japan proposes Embargo Babylon. He's been at war with everyone else on the map besides me, but pulls this proposal out of his arse. Because my CS were just killed, I didn't have the votes to block it. Now I'm down to 3 of 8 Caravans, all going to CS. Nope, now it's 2 as Washington takes out another CS ally.
Pocca then pipes up and asks me to denounce Ashur. Not wanting to tarnish my reputation, I do so, even though Ashur went Freedom. 5 turns later, Bismarck and Ashur double DoW me. Shaka, who has killed 2 of my CS allies, gives me peace and 12 GPT….which was nice. America finally gives me white peace. Germany gets DoW'd by Washington so finally gives me peace. Since I only had 3 oil resources, I could only build 2 Bombers and a Fighter. I got gifted a Mobile SAM and a Rocket Artie, and these were enough to keep Ashur at bay for 45 turns of useless war. Right after making peace, he Citadel-bombs and takes a small peace of land (I returned the favor on t345 just for spite.
I finally got to make a proposal t320ish, proposed repealing my embargo, sent a diplomat to America to get him to support this. Washington asked for all of my iron and horsies AND 31 GPT, but I had to pay it. Once it was repealed, I stopped building spaceship parts and built 8 caravans ASAP and my income went from 20 GPT to over 220 GPT. This was enough to buy the final 2 parts.
Meanwhile, on the other Western landmass, Shaka and Oda were having a very serious nuclear exchange:
Somehow, I went from tech lead to 3rd and Shaka and Ashur actually got 5 spaceship parts built and America got 3. I just couldn't tech any faster and couldn't get any more GS. Nobody was even close to CV or Diplo and the military was pretty balanced. I've never had a game where I got the 1st 5 parts built before anyone else got 2 and still almost lost, but I guess that's one of the breaks of OCC.