What factors influence scoring for the various areas?

Im not talking about difficulty here

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What exactly are the factors in scoring? Even with the difficulty put on max, and gigantic size galaxy, with all victory options turned off save conquest victory, ive managed to only get roughly 200k points as a max score. Im looking at the number 1 person, and he has 2 games at 1 million or more, and i dont see how its possible. In my games, i research the entire tech tree (this boosts score ~50k points), and build every galatic wonder/achievement that i can ( i usually miss out on building them early in the game due to the massive production bonuses the AI recieves), so im just down right confused as to how someone can get 5x the amount of points as I can, on the same difficulty/galaxy size settings.

What exactly influences scoring for each area (milityary/society/technology/etc)?? Also, what gives on the military scoring? One would think that my huge fleet with almost no losses would receive a large score, but the AIs smaller fleet with huge losses is usually double or tripple my score in this area- its the only area where i dont blow the AI out of the water in terms of points.

edit: in galciv 1, you received a large bonus by turning off tech/influence/alliance victories, so i assumed this was the case with GC2, and have only conquest victory allowed. Is this not the case anymore? Also, is there an ideal # of civs? I have been playing with 9, but is there some bonus for playing with only 3 or 4?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There are many factors. Basically everything you mentioned. Legnth of time palyed seems to be a big factor.

http://metaverse.galciv2.com/index.aspx?g=topscores&m=0

He has 11 games submitted. 2 in one profile. 9 in another.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Also, what gives on the military scoring? One would think that my huge fleet with almost no losses would receive a large score, but the AIs smaller fleet with huge losses is usually double or tripple my score in this area...


I have notice the same in my games. It seems like a bug to me. The scoring needs to be explained!!!
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
aye, i dont quite understand it myself, i tested the whole years thing out on normal. tried research everything but had to quit before the Yor culturally whooped my arse but I got to 36 years and ended up with 40000+. I had crappy society and military scores so the length does have a factor.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
He posted in another thread how he achieved his 1 million score. Pretty shadey stuff and "milking" of points to exploit the scoring system. I think it's under the metaverse forum, metaverse scoring thread. One of the later 20-ish posts.

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Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

He posted in another thread how he achieved his 1 million score. Pretty shadey stuff and "milking" of points to exploit the scoring system. I think it's under the metaverse forum, metaverse scoring thread. One of the later 20-ish posts.




i read those posts prior to posting myself, and after thinking about it for a while, his point about economy and cash flow makes me realize what settings he has different. My guess is that he has stars/planets/habitable planets all on abundant, so your economy/cash flow numbers are greatly inflated- while i myself had been playing on rare habitable planets and stars, with abundant planets. With these settings, each AI only had on average 5 planets while i had usually 8-10. Using the other settings these number increase about 10 fold. The only downside is these kind of games are micromanagement hell, and are not fun to play at all. Ill try testing one out and see what happens score wise.