CV turn 145.
Overall, the game went well, but in some places I did not have enough luck, and in some places I did not play perfectly, I think it is possible to improve the result of turns by 5.
Initially, I wanted to try something different from SS, but I didn't succeed. I just don't understand how you can play with 4-5 cities on a continent where you can build 20 cities
On the 5th turn, thanks to the ruins, I had to accept the 1st institute and I chose the tradition, but after exploring the continent, I realized that I definitely needed liberty. I found King Solomon's Mines on turn 7 (500), Kilimanjaro on 9 (100) and Barringer crater at 17 (100). Barcelona was founded on 15 turn, quickly made a shrine for the pantheon, a monument, a granary and then started spamming Wonders. In Madrid, after 3 scouts, a worker, a monument and a granary, it was possible to spam settlers without being distracted by anything else. The only thing that hindered the emergence of new cities was the restrictions on happiness.
I founded the 3rd city near Kilimanjaro, near Barringer crater only the 6th, because I was greatly hampered by the barbarian camp to the north of it. I even had to buy an archer in Madrid. This delayed religion a little (45 turn) and its strengthening (60 turn). I chose one with nature, initiation ceremonies, pagodas, mosques and itinerant preachers.
Bismarck was a great neighbor - he gave me about 5 settlers, about 3 workers and did not build a single city in the wrong place. Exactly on the 100th move, he came under my cultural influence, and around 111 I captured Berlin. After that, he wished me success and good luck)
Inka gave me a couple of workers and a lot of money. About turn 60, he suddenly offered me a declaration of friendship, thanks to which I could take money from him without war, thereby he bought himself 50 turns of peace. He had 3 cities in total, of which Cusco was the northernmost. On 118 turn, I took one of his cities for peace, and on 129 turn I started the last war and captured the remaining 2 cities.
I thought that with such a start I would be able to build all the wonders in the game. What for? I don't know, but I tried) I even learned IW for Colossus, what I never do anything at all. But in Barcelona, more necessary wonders were being built, and in Madrid I made an additional 2-3 settlers before I started building the Colossus. As a result, I was outpaced when I built about a third (about 80 turn). In Salamanca, I was 7-8 turns late with the MoM (about 90), and in Toledo I was 4-5 turns late with the Terracotta Army (before 95). I didn't learn the Great Wall, and I just couldn't build the Statue of Zeus.
Apart from these 5 wonders, I built all the others. In Barcelona - ToA, Stonehenge, Great Library, Great Lighthouse, Oracle (85), Hanging Gardens, Parthenon (104), Chichen Itza (106, I learned CS at 101 turn, but remembered about the sleeping Engineer only after 4 moves) and the Great Mosque of Djenne. In Cordoba - Pyramids (86), in Seville - Petra (105), Hagia Sophia and Machu Picchu (143), in Toledo - Angor-Wot (144). in Madrid, Borobudur (130).
By turn 100, I had only 13 cities and 3 setters. After the meritocracy, the number of cities increased to 17-18 and I was also able to afford to capture AI cities. By the way, I really enjoyed capturing cities without loss of population and without riots).
In total, at the end of the game, I had 24 cities, of which 20 I built myself. And exactly 100 tourism.
My Institutes : Tradition (5) - Liberty (10) - Republic - Collective rule (33) - Piety - Organized religion - Religious tolerance -Reformation (85, Oracle) - citizenship - meritocracy - representation (127) - aesthetics (138) - rationalism (143, use writer)
On the 127 turn, I got a Great scientist from liberty and wanted to speed up Astronomy with him, but I didn't have enough 14 bulbs! (-1 turn, i didn't need to teach IW) As a result, I got astronomy on the 128 turn. 3 of my scouts, the Great Prophet from Sofia and 4 pre-made triremes were ready to sail in search of contacts. But around turn 115, I made a gross mistake. I annexed Berlin and bought colosseum for 0 by happy. All I had to do was wait one turn and buy a pagoda instead of colosseum. I thought I would have time to save up money to upgrade the triremes, but I was able to upgrade at 128 turn only 2 triremes, another 1 at 129 t. Moreover, I did not improve the most necessary trireme near Barcelona, I think it cost me 1 or 2 turns. I found China, Korea, Babylon and Egypt by turn 131. The last contact I got with Rome was only on the 134 turn with the help of a scout and a Chinese road. Rome had the strongest culture, My influence on him grew by only 10% per turn, but then it became a little slow. The prophet converted him to my religion on turn 142, in 2 turns the influence grew from 77 to 99, but I had to wait another turn before winning. Of course, I could win this turn by giving him a city for a trade route (or just buy the harbor in Barcelona? I didn't check), but I didn't want to give away my cities
- such a kindness. As you can see in the t82 mini-map below, my free Great Admiral had started to discover the distant civs by now. The land-locked Babylonians would be last, but their culture was weak so it didn't matter in the long run.
