I finally submitted a game for this one using the Maya for 31824 points. Settings were 60%Archipelago, warm, wet, 5byo, least aggressive, no barbs. I only used 6 rivals-Arabia, Japan, Mongols, China, Zulu, and America. The dom limit for this game was 2933, about average for large archipelago. There was a wheat and one cow at the start, but I wanted to play rather than find the perfect map. There were 4 more cows, 2 wheats, and two floodplain rivers near the start that helped.
One bit of luck occured near the start as I got the Pyramids with an SGL for writing. Of course, this meant an early despotic GA pumping out settlers, but I took it. One of my plans was to use the javelin thrower to get a lot of slaves, but this didn't pan out. The starting continent was huge and the only other civ, Arabia was very far away. By 10 AD, I still had not fought any wars and had 70 cities, 264 pop, 576 dom tiles, and 96 workers with no slaves. In hindsight, I probably should have played with more civs. My score at this time was only 1456 and there were only two luxes on the starting island of about 1000 tiles. Research was also going slowly as I was just starting engineering after getting monotheism and trading for feudalism for the ai.
War with Arabia started around 150AD and by 1000AD they were eliminated and Japan on an island with the Mongols were down to 5 cities. I only captured a few slaves before I was no longer able to build the javelin thrower. I was still halfway to the dom limit with 151 cities, 1130 pop, and 190 workers including 56 slaves. I was researching steel at this time and the home island was fully railed. The world was broken up into four continent sized islands with a few smaller islands. The other ai's were keeping up in tech for the most part, making conquest with cavs difficult, though China and the Mongols still did not have infantry. I had the full compliment of luxes by now and my score was 5335.
By 1400AD, I had eliminated everyone but the Zulu and America on a large island and had reached the dom limit and the modern age. From now on, I disbanded less populous cities as I captured towns slowly from the Zulu and America. America was made an OCC in the tundra by 1660AD and never grew above size 2. I was 1 tile from the dom limit and stayed that way the rest of the game as there were no more border pops expected throughout the empire. My score at this point was 13,687 and I was gaining about 100 points a turn soon after.
Cities built temples to get a border pop and then disbanded them. The capital had to disband its university to avoid 20K by 2050AD. I built markets, granary, harbor, mass transit, courts, police stations, banks and stock exchanges where appropriate and started researching future techs in about 5 turns each at 0% sicence with scientists only. My native workers were joined in about the time I defeated America, but I still had over 100 slaves dealing with pollution. Max pop was reached in about 1860AD and I ended with 235 cities, 4466 pop,3200 tiles, 2932 dom tiles, and only 21 unworked tiles. I was researching future tech #25 at the end with the lux slider at 80% and no unhappy citizens in the empire. Total time played was just under 230 hours.
I apologize for not having a better write-up and no pictures, but I still can only connect to CFC via proxy. This isn't likely to change for a while as I've tried everything and no one else seems to be having this problem.
We'll be publishing the results with the next update around May 15th.
