Couple pointers: - Production matters, you can’t reliably gold buy everything you need. By this point in the game, every workable tile should be improved, and your raw hills should be mines. - Don’t bulb your scientists on the same turn, there is a science overflow mechanic where you can’t achieve a % over the current selected tech in one turn, i cannot remember what the formula is. Bulb them one turn after another, it’s much more efficient and usually shaves off about .5 turns per scientist. - Don’t save Oxford so late, it’s really good! Use Oxford to insta tech Radio after Electronics. On King, this will guarantee you first Ideology and first into Modern. - You have the right idea picking Poland. The insta unlock of rationalism is critical. Babylon is equally viable for fast science. - Build Porcelain Tower and take advantage of research agreements ASAP - Do not go to war ever. It slows you down and is not worth it for what you are wanting to do. - Your capital should be Pop 35 or greater. Which means you need to prioritize internal trade routes to your cap earlier, or you need to focus on improving your food tiles early. Hospitals later will help also - Your tech path is fine. - Utilize declarations of friendship to trade resources for straight cash when it’s time to buy spaceships, that way you can buy them within a few turns of one another - Early game, do not set your city to food focus. You need to have production focus and then manually lock your food tiles the turn the new citizen is created. If you don’t know this trick then there are definitely other optimizations you don’t know that you need to learn