the strategy is at reply #1.

oh and I got something extra:

1. after you read it, make sure you are playing a race that have good core ships and good starting techs.

2. and you starting abilities should be like this:

-5 points on speed. (you must be fast if you want to colonize every planet in the galaxy. well not every planet but the most!)

-3 points on economy. ( if you want to colonize fast, you need to have a lot of cash!)

-2 points on military. (help you build colony ships really fast)

3. set the spending line to 100. and taxs on what will give you approval 100% (as you said 99 is not enough).

4. every planet you colonize should first:

-have 3 factories on it.

-build starport as soon as possible.

-every planet should build colony ships even planets with only 1000 M people. (it will go back to 5000 B in time)

-if you have a good planet in range of class (13-30) you should build 5 factories, 3 labs, 3 entertainment centers, 3 trade centers, 1 farm and you should save some tiles for future production

5. as soon as you research to "Research Academy" you need to research the whole trade, farm, production tree.

6. at this point the AI is getting really strong and he have some ships. so you should research the "Invasion" and the "Defense" tree. that will give you enough soldiering to protect yourself from being destroyed.

7. now research the speed, "Mass Driver" and "Mass Driver Defense" tree.

8. now when the colony rush is over. upgrade all your colony ships (assuming you have enough money)to your best military ship.

9. and strike them down!

10 things you should do at the beginning:

-set servery ship to "Auto Servery"

- colonize far planets and then the closer ones.

- number of races is no matter (I think)

- try to have more then 50 Trillion people in your Empire.

- set everything (when you choose map size and victory situation) to abundant

That's it. hope it will help ya.
Special Thanks to ubertaco.

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-Master U

Heh, wow, I was the master?

I don't play metaverse, but glad my thoughts worked for you Master U.

For what you are doing early speed is certainly going to be needed, but on the maps I play normally it isn't needed that much, so the extra pop growth is where I put the points.

no really guys... I just build like 5 farms in each planet and reaserched the "Terraforming" what that really boosting up my population and your score (because of the Aphrodisiac)! and I did "rare" on the non-habitable planets that means that every star system have 5 planets and they are all habitable.. (well not all but there are times when I see like 10 star systems that have no non-habitable planets). I just used another startegy.... my last stategy was to build improvements and build colony ships only from my home world... so that is really big change for me... and you all saw the player "killzone" he got really be score in just 10 -15 games? I'm planing to play until I got 25 games... I got some other things to do in my life.... but you could really have some help from the real lords... the top 5 list players...

and that 0 years game was a totally a bug I played with 9 opponents and it was like 6 year long game and I ended (I think) in april but i'm not sure... I think there is something worng with this system, maybe it was mm... I don't know a good bug???!?!?! star dock should check about it I can send them a save game that I did before my last game...  

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Thanks for understanding...
-Master U

that's simple, calculate:

Billion it's 00000 zeros right?
and Trillion it's 000000 zeros right?

I got 70 planets in a medium map, I leave my 9th opponent alone on it's home world, (that's mean I got the whole planets on the map, even the level 4 planets (low levels I got almost 16 of 70)

so the range goes like this:

every planet I got have at least 45 B people on it, (in that case no matter who many soldiers the AI bring to my planet, because it is well secured) now 45b X 70 =
(not 50 Trillion people but in large map you should have that way) that's suppose to be 31500000 T (I think... I'm really bad in math) anyway the more Happy people you got the more score you get...

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please try to understand (questions like yours should be asked with someone that have more points then mine. and for now I'm starting to lose some points I don't know why...)
Thanks again
-Master U

Billion it's 00000 zeros right? and Trillion it's 000000 zeros right?

Just to put things right:
1 Million = 1,000,000 = 1M
1 Billion = 1,000,000,000 = 1B = 1000M
1 Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000 = 1T = 1000B = 1000000M

It's factor 1000 between the neighbouring ones. The 5T or 50T from above can't be true: You'd need over 150 well-populated planets for even the 5T.

but it's still true you just add everyone another 0000 zeros right?

You multiply by 1000, that means you add 3 zeros (000).

Never mind, just don't confuse us too much with the numbers.

Just to put things right: 1 Million = 1,000,000 = 1M 1 Billion = 1,000,000,000 = 1B = 1000M 1 Trillion = 1,000,000,000,000 = 1T = 1000B = 1000000M

That's under the American system; in the British system:
1 Million = 1Thousand X 1Thousand = 1,000,000
1 Billion = 1Million X 1Million = 1,000,000,000,000
1 Trillion = 1Billion X 1Billion = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

We need to get the whole world under 1 number system and 1 measuring system. I vote for the American number system but the metric measuring system.

I think both systems are right! I just need some math lessons that's all!?