Wednesday in Alliance Duel is themed as "Age of Science". It awards you 2 victory points, like most of the weekday events in Alliance victory. You get points for using research speedups, gaining tech power, consuming badges, doing orange "Intercity Trades", buying packs containing diamonds. Unline Shelter Upgrade day, Age of Science has very little random elements, as usually you have more than enough refreshes to have 4 orange Intercity trades (trucks) sent out. Researching and consuming badges is a straightforward task when you have badges.

If you don't want to spend real money (or google play points) to buy points, this day is straightforward. You have to research technologies. Aiming to use as much of research speed ups as possible is a reasonable goal. Finishing important research on this day of the week is also a reasonable goal. Unlike Construction, Research usually offer less flexibility, mostly because badges are usually a premium currency that limits what can you research and when. 

Possible preparations and timing

Usually you want to be "your strongest" on Enemy Buster day, finishing some upgrades in the Holistic Growth phase on Friday, so you can collect your speedups and some resources on Saturday, Sunday and Monday before you need them for this phase. You doesn't want to use non-free speedups to finish research on Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday as you can use the same speedup for better rewards on Wednesday. Again, you have two related Full Preparedness phases in the day, and you can just quickly use some speedups in those phases, you don't have to deal with longer tasks. 

Fuel economy, Deal Store and Strategy

You spend fuel for the daily events (Danger Lurks, Furylord) and on looting. As you usually have more than enough electricity, you usually don't have to plunder for that. Plundering zents (coins) require a raider license, and unless you buy the advanced version, it is easy to gather enough zents for the day. Fuel isn't a big concern, so you can save some cans of fuel for other days. You might have speedups in VIP store, Glory Store, Items, etc. and you can even buy speedups from Alliance Store. This part of event is mostly straightforward. There are appointments from the State President that can help with research. Secretary of science is one of the possible buff (15% research speed, 3600 seconds free speedups) you might want to use, and it should used in combination with speedups and you should be able to use it quickly and pass it to another player after an hour if you can get it. The other, bigger, buff is the appointment to Administrative Commander (20% construction speed, 20% research speed), but it is only available for servers that successfully invaded the capital of another state. 

Secretary of Science is much more powerfull, if you can use the 1 hour extra free time repeatedly and the speed buffs to quickly finish a few research projects just after each other and benefit from the extra time many times. Otherwise the Administrative Commander title with more speed bonus can be useful and can save more speedups. 

Packs and pay to win options

Buying speedups and resources you can use can be streaightforward options. Buying the badges you need can be a good investment, as it is one of the hard to get premium currencies / resources you simply can't have enough. Buying the license for a 2nd laboratory might be a good investment, if you can afford to keep 2 laboratories running, raiders license alllows you to loot zents. 

One of the biggest pay to win option here is ApocAid monthly pass, as it generates not only diamonds, but daily doses of speedups you can collect, and you can also help fellow alliance members by sending out your traders. 

Additional considerations

• You should prepare for the coming days Alliance Duel phases. 
• The event is straightforward and predictable, so as an R4, I would like to see you score at leact 500.000 points in this event.