More on scoring

Ok I just finished my first all abundant huge galaxy. Best game I ever played. I was several orders of magnitude more powerful in every aspect than I ever have been. My score was 128,000. Considering how much ass I kicked, I was hoping for 200k or more. A tad frustrating considering how many hours I put in, but I learned a few things and I have a couple Q's.

Part of what I screwed up was maximizing my "Front end of the curve" in regard to military power. Not sure how many points this cost me, but I should have started earlier. It's hard though due to early economic woes, but my economy got so insane that I was netting 300k per turn cranking out ships like a mad man.

When you get to a point where there really isn't any techs u want, should u keep spending to get tech score? I dropped mine down a lot so i could maximize military production. I figured this would net more points.

I see that many insane scored games are on DA rather than TA. I love TA. Am I at a scoring disadvantage with this? Honestly, DA annoys me so I'd prefer to kick it TA.

And lastly, how long do you drag a game out? I see you guys that do your gigantic all abundants and mostly do 8 year games. On my huge all abundant, I ended it in 6. How do you know when to stop before it costs you more than you gain? I'm wondering if I had gone another year with my insane ship building and economy if I couldn't have scored higher. I mean, this is my best score by a factor of 2-2.5x so I should be happy, but I see these 800k-1mil games and I can't help but think I boned myself on a lot of points.

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To really get a into the 700K+ range you need to be thinking about score rather than about winning the game in the traditional sense.

The keys to a very high score:

1) Defeat all but one empire (let them keep 1 planet) as soon as possible. No later than 3 years (1 to 2 years is optimal).

2) Build 24 fully upgraded Military Star Bases that all overlap on one area, and then move all of your ships to that area.

3) Run the game out until the end of year 7 or year 8.

I will only mention these 3 points because they are not essential for winning the game. These are essential for high scores, but not for victory.

In my opinion winning the game and getting a massive score are 2 different games.

You have to master winning the game first, and then you can start going for the massive scores.

A word of warning, going for massive scores can be tedious.

- Livonya

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A word of warning, going for massive scores can be tedious.

amen!

another note: the most important factors to your score, in order of importance, are military rating, economic rating, and population. at least, that's my understanding.

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I agree with dystopic's statement however it is key to note that population is KEY to everything else.

Building a massive economy is EXTREMELY important for everything, and population is key for that.

In my games I make sure I have 20K people on every single planet, and I will build 4 to 5 fertility clinics on most planets ASAP.

The population score is always the lowest score for me, but that does NOT mean that population isn't important.

- Livonya

PS: Dystopic - do you like Dystopia, the hardcore band from San Francisco?

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PS: Dystopic - do you like Dystopia, the hardcore band from San Francisco?

haven't heard of them, but i'll check 'em out tonight. i do like my hardcore.

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