Thats where it went wrong, for that to work you need to use minimal armed ships aka one hit defence and/or one hit attack due to the way the scoring works. Using large armed / defence ships is virtually meaningless for that bit of cheese.

Its always obvious when it has been used by someone anyway, so its a bit pointless. Once you get hold of the technique its frankly a bit of "so what", its not exactly a challenge.

Regards
Zy

Well, not necessarily - there are several things you can do later in the game whereby you can watch your individual and overall scores go up in relatively short time frames. For example, I figured it was pointless to invest in technology after researching the entire tech tree and when I finished that game my tech score was pathetic. So next time around in year 3 of the game after completing the tech tree I did an experiment - I first went 10 turns at 0% research doing nothing, ended the game and recorded the score. Then I reloaded, changed only my investment in research to 80%, went 10 turns doing nothing and my final score went up by 1,250 points (technology score from 9,851 to 11,401). So if the military starbases mattered at all, I should have at least witnessed a slight increase. I wasn't expecting anything huge, but I was expecting something.

I haven't tried the low value ships like Zydor suggests. It seems like if it made no difference with the huge class ships, then I'm puzzled why it would be non-zero with a lesser armed ship. I'm willing to give it a whirl, though - what the heck.