I tried to follow this... it didn't work for me. I quit playing when I realized I wasn't going to win. I wasn't allowed to build the space elevator because I was too far north. And for an unknow reason, I couldn't build a dam either?
I was kinda lucky that in my BFC I had two clams, pigs, and wine (and later iron) and just outside that, corn and horses. Later on I also had cows and coal inside my cultural borders. And I was able to trade for copper. Oil was close by, but another civ setteled a city right next door to get it.
I've never had so many GP! That was cool.. (never really got the whole GP farm down before).
Wang Kon (?) got Apollo finished first and had more cities to crank out parts.
Warring was minimal.. there was a city right next to me, and later I realized it was now a city ruins (I have show enemy moves off, so I missed that whole war). [EDIT: wasn't a war, city flipped to me and was auto razed due to OCC constraints]
I included the save, if anyone has suggestions?
I'm gonna go start another game, see if I can do better.
-dana