All the metaverse does is record the score of your games and puts it in the huge database of players who submit any score to the metaverse. You can see how you rank scorewise against everyone else. Not all scores are equal, because it doesnt take into account the type of victory, galaxy size, or anything else and compare it to other games of the same type. Just your final score.

So someone who is playing with the tech rate of "very slow" on a tiny galaxy and wins by tech victory will not score as high as someone with a military victory on a gigantic galaxy with a "very fast" tech rate.

BUT, if you are in an empire that is included in the Altmeta, you can compare your scores to other people who played on the same size galaxy, and who won the game with the same type of victory condition. Sort of.

The metaverse is essentially a high score list.

There is a formula for determining your score which is:

(Sum of depreciated games)/(number of games)^0.4

Game scores depreciate at 5% a month down to a lower limit of 65% of their original value. These depreciated scores are summed and divided by the number of games played taken to the 0.4 power. Note that the 0.5 power is the square root.

To make this division more intuitive if the sum of depreciated games were simply divided by the number of games then that's the same as your average score. If the sum of depreciated games weren't divided by anything then that would be your total accumulated score. Dividing the sum of depreciated games by the number of games to the 0.4 power is basically a compromise between these two extremes.

Also to submit a game to the metaverse you have to start the game as a metaverse game using the "metaverse" button instead of the "new game" button.

There is also the Alternate Metaverse (AltMeta) which uses the regular metaverse as a front end submission mechanism but basically creates your total score from the sum of depreciated scores without dividing by some function of the number of games submitted. However the AltMeta depreciates games by 16 and 2/3 percent per month and so once a game is six months old it depreciates to zero. The AltMeta also has different "classes" for people that play different sized games.

There are some pinned posts in the Metaverse forum where some of these things are discussed.

For "regular" metaverse scoring see the Answers to questions about the Metaverse thread.

For questions about the AltMeta see the Alternative Metaverse & Statistics thread or the AltMeta Help Desk thread.

For the AltMeta itself see http://altmeta.kryofx.com/.

Finally I did write up a lot of detailed explanations for the Altmeta about a year ago. There are links to the explanations in the OP of the AltMeta Class Beta thread. All of the links to the descriptions are still good and I think they're still fairly helpful although the links to the pictures in the explanation for the Data Charts have since been broken.

Thank you for this thread also peeps. I have just started playing a metaverse game, and I was wondering if I was going to be able to upload my score. I guess I will to see what happens. I do not have any feel for how scoring works in a game at all. I have mostly just been playing to learn.

What are high-scoring games anyway? Games where you win quickly? Games where you develop your civilization to the maximum potential? I know in Sid Meier's Civilization there were tricks to winning with the best score that usually involved building all the wonders, expanding as much as possible, and militarily dominating at the same time.

Oh well, thanks again for newbie answers.