I got HG on 70T (just after NC) - game-changing wonder in OCC.
Why did you move between the stone? You lose a hill and lose fresh water for garden, so then your game plan becomes "get hanging gardens" which is quite a gamble on deity, you get it maybe 50% of the time :O
In my game, it went turn 50...
The first pantheon taken: Stone Circle, the only good one for me. I still got a religion and hagia sophia to enhance it right after. I got hermitage tourism boost.
Lost Mausoleum by 2 turns.
Got oracle.
I signed 6 RAs around the time I got education ( 2 earlier since AI had tech ).
I tried to go for printing press with oxford instead of accoustics. Of course ghandi sniped it from me by 1 turn even if he wasn't building it when I started. Yay. He also got sistine and uffizi, because he got Petra. None of the idiot AIs wanted to fight him, because he was score leader and that makes all the AI afraid. They wanted 20+ gpt for war.
1st congress I propose scholars in residence and it passes. Good, good.
Around turn 135, Ghandi killed my level 2 spy. So instead of stealing acoustics, my spy died. The plan was to use that spy to flip CS as I already had patronage 3. NOPE. Completely wasted patronage thanks to this one extremely unlikely event.
Then of course I see all the AI entered industrial through archaeology around turn 150. Surprise. Some already had exploration so, not great news for me. Sure enough pedro got Louvre turn 175.
I got porcelain tower even as arabia was trying to steal it from me. Thankfully I had a spy in their capital so I could stop building hermitage and focus on tower. I would have lost it otherwise, which would have been disastrous given the number of RAs I was getting.
Then 3 turns before entering industrial, a stupid great prophet spawned, sucking 500 faith from me and making sure I couldn't buy an engineer to rush anything. Dear lord.
Got ideology turn 174, 3 turns after ghandi got Order. At least I'm second to it and I'll get the good tourism boost from it. At this point my gold was at 0 basically from borrowing to get factory and public school... So no more RAs. Other AIs all proceed to take order. Usually when I pick first, they all take a different one, but when I don't apparently they all collude so they never have to fight or something, who knows. Anyway, thanks for the tourism boost suckers.
178: ghandi completes broadway.
184: Ghandi completes eiffel tower
Seems the only choice is to war ghandi. Sadly this is OCC. So. Yah.
Turn 200---
The French empire is not going well lol.
No theming or tourism wonders.
No world religion passed.
39 tourism with hotel and themed hermitage + oxford...
4 city-state allies ( they all have 120+ over me everywhere it's quite ridiculous )
The strategy of going to printing press instead of acoustics seems to be quite crap. It just snowballs into mediocrity as you lose Sistine, have a 1% chance to get Leaning Tower and basically get much slower renaissance era. In a mountain game I would pop oxford for astronomy, otherwise I think you should pop it for acoustics or architecture...