Fast 1 city NC to tradition 4 city opening.
Ruins: pop 1 to 2, culture around t15, mining tech, some gold, map, barb camp.
Tech: pottery - writing - masonry (mining pop) - calendar - drama - phil pop with GL - theology - trapping - beeline to math - beeline to Civil Service and edu - Acoustics - iron working and went for astronomy - fill bottom techs to printing press.
Cap BO: scout - monument - pyramid(UB) - 2 more scouts - GL - NC - archer - warrior - HS - HG - wonders.
expos: pyramid - granary - library.
Detailed event log:
t14: bought worker (I think 2 gold ruins + CS meeting money + loans).
t18: DoWed Spain (got gold before and stole worker).
t23: sold copper to celt and bought granary. This early granary was really helpful. Had pantheon at the same time - spent really long time on this, and finally chose fertility rites.
t27: Landed elite (tradition one) opened.
t29: fair peace with spain. Pop ruin! 4 to 5.
t30: culture ruin. 3 Scouts are doing good job so far.
t32: found fountain of youth! too bad that I won't have it as it is too far away.
t34: as byz and celt both went honor 2, I paid byz to DoW Celt - of course I did this with gpt and lux and DoWed to get them back at the same turn. Bought one archer (UU) to defend against barb and clear camp near Belgrade.
t41: GL done - pop phil and start NC right away. Chose aristocracy (15% wonder boost from tradition).
t42: reached the west coast. Met all the civs already and trying to meet more CS and do quests.
t43: stole worker from Kuala Lumpur. Piliaged 2 tiles.
t44: bought settler. NC 6 turns to go. Pop 7.
t48: cleared barb camp and allied belgrade.
t49: bought another settler. Got gold from "loans" and lux sells. DoWed 1 or 2 civs and got gold peace deals already. NC done.
t52: 2nd city, north of cap, hill between 2 rivers so that I had banana 1 ring and 1 more banana and citrus 3 ring.
t54: 3rd city, east of cap, NE of one tile mountain so that I could get ivory and truffle.
t61: monarchy open. Happiness is pretty tight.
t62: first UA. Got GS and academy it up. spt 46 for cap and 2,1 for 2nd and 3rd city.
t65: barb quests for two CS SE.
t70: HS done. Tithe and pagoda.
t71: 4th city, NW of cap, where I could get gem and banana 2nd ring and old faithful, banana, copper 3rd ring. Of course on the hill next to mountain. Almost everyone denounced me, but don't care. DoWed most civs except Dido (#1 army) and got fair or gold peace deal.
t78: 193 gold + DoW England deal for Dido. "paid" 4 lux for that, but DoWed immediately.
t79: HG done. stole one more worker from Spain.
t80: tradition done. Religion enhanced - religious community and 30% further spread.
t81: one more worker from spain
England offered York for peace, but got gold + gpt instead.
t82: education done and bought uni at cap. spt 94 and 78 for cap alone.
t84: stole worker from Dido. Dido took London.
t86: got GP from UA to spread religion. Built manufactory with the previous one.
t91: delayed acoustics 1 turn to buy one pagoda before renaissance. Oracle at the same turn and opend rationalism. One more worker from Spain but cannot use this one as it got stuck SE of Spain cap and sea.
t96: CI done. Several gold+gpt peace deals have been made recently.
t99: secularism.
t102: astronomy and my spy killed 2-3 spies already. used loans and saved money to buy obs at the cap. spt 225. 123, 34, 29, 8 spt for 4 cities respectively. Pop 16, 8, 7, 4.
t110:Machu Pichu.
t112: Free thoughts (univ +17%). spt 268 and 3 turns till printing press.
Spent golds + quests for culture CS, as I entered renaissance early and wanted to fill up to free thoughts asap. After this, will open pat. no RA for sure, so don't need more rationalism sp for a while.
Could not get any maritime CS so pop growth was slower than expected. Did not have enough gold to rush buy univ and obs, so bought only for cap and hard built for other places. Maybe bought univ for 2nd city.
Maya is really OP and this starting location is legendary... I expect good finish time for this one.