Hi, entertaining work here.
I'm unfamiliar with epic speed pace so can't say how nicely timed are all your milestones but wanted to add my 2c.
I would have entered Renaissance asap, so Banking. In the end you reformed at t228 while you could have entered Renaissance on t231 judging from some screenshots, with half of China converted so.. 13 cities following your religion? That's not capped out (<20) but I feel yields now are better than later. Those hammers you get from WoT would have flowed into the slowly built Palace, and the science would have helped catching up with China (Wu beelines her UU) who is a serious contender for Pisa. You might be slower at building the wonder without WoT hammers but you get there earlier. Your war is going well so no need to unlock better units, and delaying the research of all the bottom tech tree means those techs will be cheaper (more opponents learning about them), while trade routes to and from China grant more beakers for the time being.
Most important of all, since you're playing Progress the Era scaling on your policies really pays off, because all your cities are steadly growing and churning buildings. That's more food/culture/gold everywhere, also science from councils and better CS yields... I just like to beeline the next Era Feel free to ignore everything if I missed some obvious scaling issue under Epic
I'm unfamiliar with epic speed pace so can't say how nicely timed are all your milestones but wanted to add my 2c.
I have Way of Transcendence, so I decided to go for Chemistry to advance era, I will guarantee to get Pisa and Its also a very important wonder [...] banking doesnt give any wonder so I cant take advantage of WOT.
I would have entered Renaissance asap, so Banking. In the end you reformed at t228 while you could have entered Renaissance on t231 judging from some screenshots, with half of China converted so.. 13 cities following your religion? That's not capped out (<20) but I feel yields now are better than later. Those hammers you get from WoT would have flowed into the slowly built Palace, and the science would have helped catching up with China (Wu beelines her UU) who is a serious contender for Pisa. You might be slower at building the wonder without WoT hammers but you get there earlier. Your war is going well so no need to unlock better units, and delaying the research of all the bottom tech tree means those techs will be cheaper (more opponents learning about them), while trade routes to and from China grant more beakers for the time being.
Most important of all, since you're playing Progress the Era scaling on your policies really pays off, because all your cities are steadly growing and churning buildings. That's more food/culture/gold everywhere, also science from councils and better CS yields... I just like to beeline the next Era Feel free to ignore everything if I missed some obvious scaling issue under Epic