Tech trading advice, please

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I want to improve my tech trading. I've won one emporer victory but in most emporer games I get hosed techwise. I've tried the "pointy stick" diplomacy by beating up neighbors and demanding tech as tribute, but (not surprisingly) everyone hates me. (plus it's cheap to take a city or 2, trade peace for tech-repeat)
Can anyone help me or link me on advice of zero research/trading to tech parity? Thanks!
 
You might be interested in my SGFN-04: Ragnar for Secretary-General, which was a zero-science game at Emperor level. It was surprisingly doable, no science spending allows a huge military and plenty of gold per turn. The one most important thing, you absolutely must have a squeaky clean trade reputation. That means careful attention to trade route integrity and never trading depletable resources unless you have extra. So say you have 2 Iron, you trade 1 and it depletes. If the 1 remaining can't get to the trade partner, you are screwed. No more gpt trades for you, Mister!
 
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