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Did anyone have any clue how the endgame score is calculated. I have ended two game in gigantic map. normal difficulty 4 opponent. First game gave me 40 points and second one 44. Both victories was culture.
It's a mystery to us players. This is the 3rd thread I've seen asking the same question. I've been playing on normal with small and medium maps so that I could complete games between beta updates, and I've been getting scores in the low teens, with culture, alliance, and military victories. Yet someone on the metaverse has a 4000 point game on normal difficulty.
High faction power, good economy, lots of planets, ships, etc. Lots of population. Low number of turns. Those all contribute to it.
Even knowing all that doesn't quite tell me how some people are getting 40 and others getting 4000.
And yet if we did know how it worked, people could exploit it to get better scores.
I think that the number of turns are integrated into the scoring formulae as a divisor of the accumulated score, and functions as an increasingly depreciation of every turns score as long as additional turns are added.
Perhaps in a way like
(SumOfScoreTurn1/Nt) + (SumOfScoreTurn2/Nt) etc = TotalScore
Nt being the number of turns that have been played.
A Turn1Score of 100 would deliver 100 points to the TotalScore if the game is ended on Turn1. If ended on Turn2 it would deliver 50 points, or only 10 points on Turn10.
However as long as this depreciation could be overcome by the collection of additional score each turn the TotalScore will rise, although this becomes increasingly difficult the more turns are added. As a rule of thumb as long as you can still maximize one or more of the different increments that attribute to the sum of each turns score (population, military ships etc) the score should also rise.
so funny. I was just going to do the same post. sounds like a mystery
does anyone know how scores get posted to the metaverse?
According to the metaverse, the 4000+ normal difficulty large map influence win was on turn 1. At best this was via some huge exploit, at worst a cheat of some kind.
At any rate, I'm going to ignore the metaverse and just enjoy playing the game in my own style.
I have tried a bunch of different methods to try and improve my game score and cant come up with anything. I have played small maps, large maps tons of opponents, had one game where I had over 30 planets, everything researched and won the game in about 450 turns via the ascension gate being built with only a score of 49.
I sort of tested the lesser turns game score. I ended a game on turn 250 with conquest and got 18 points. I reloaded the game from a save before I started the war and played an additional 200 turns and then beat the game in conquest and got 23 points. Those were my two lowest scoring games. I average in the 40's and have beat the game in every way and can not figure out how people are getting scores in the hundreds.
when i first played the "tutorial" map i got about 15 points. i replayed that recently for no particular reason other than "fooling around". i basically grabbed the 2 planets that are not yet settled, built them up as efficiently as i could and made my way through the tech tree fairly quickly (i think i had most of the techs unlocked around turn ~200, which i think is decent for only 3 planets). to finish the map, i built a couple of giant ships with the final tier of weapons and defenses (complete overkill 
) and finished the map. the result was 600+ points. so my guess would be it's based on tech progress, military and economic power vs. the turn number. map size could also be a factor.
I just finished a game as altarian on an insane map where I got about 50k science per turn (science victory, 281 turns) and only got a score of 17. I think the major factor is the power score - if you are behind there you won't get a high score.
In the two games I've played (both on 'Large' maps) in both of them I led commandingly the whole way, and received scores of 19 & 9.
Insane turn 470, 3000 pop, 130+ planets, every tech, 1.2mil on hand. Military not huge but not small and 29 pts. Ascension vs tech doesnt matter, won same game on same turn (reloaded and rushed the gate) and score was same. Oh yeah custom race.
Score most defiantly need another look. Paul agreed on the stream. When? 1.1 hopfully
On the stream Paul was more surprised than anything else that the scores were so low. He said that my win should not have given such a low score and that they probably would take a look and tweak the scoring system.
The win (as the Krynn) that i referred to in the stream:
My average population was rather low because i had to use something like 3/4 of them as invasion forces, leaving most planets (except for my main planets) at between 2 and 3 population.
It was a frikking knife-fight with the wars (all against me, none against another AI) starting around turn 30. One of my hardest won games ever and then you end up with a score of 10. 
Score: 523
No idea how that's calculated, obviously playing on godlike should result in a better score.
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