[scanning smilie list for "middle finger" icon] hmmm . . .
How about this: The scout salute and says: "read between the lines."
Anyhow, you should finish a turn before passing it. Also, automating workers at time of war is bound to guarantee a rant or two from any player, not to mention the Grumpiest of them all.
I first raised culture by 10% and whip cities where there are more angry faces than the whip cost. Also, in the inherited turn, did the following:
That's right razed Tianjin, got a GG, and attach him to an explorer to get a medic III morale boosted explorer. I had also re-arranged the troops in the northern city so that the next turn, I wipe out the spanish invaders.
See what I mean by finishing your turn?
The razing continues after pressing enter:
And the Chinese are no more.
Now that Bismarck lost his pet dog, I sent him my condolences and offered him peace.
This removed most war weariness, and I reduced culture back to zero. Meanwhile, our scientists got us Assembly Line:
I have not upgraded any of our super-duper CR rifles to infantry, but we have quite some cash from the war, and next player can do that once the CR rifles finish with the northern spain cities.
And I think the GE should be used to complete 75% of the pentagon in the capitol once the Hindu Mandir is completed.
I did try to instigate a holy crusade against Isabella ...
But no one is interested. Hmm, I go razed more city of spain alone:
and settled two cities amidst the war:
Razed more cities:
Don't worry, next player also get to have some action in the east:
Now, one word of caution. Sally revolted to vassalage, slavery, and theocracy. He is furious at us (and only us), and is the only AI that has more power than us.
It doesn't need an oracle or a a deck of tarot cards to predict that he would declare within the next few turns. So keep an eye.
Personally, I don't see a clear path of winning this game. I would have concentrated on the space race when the first ring is completed instead of trying to do a second ring. Now that it is committed, I can't see how it helps in winning. Conquest? Domination? Space? Diplo? Culture? Time? All seems improbable at this stage.