Isn't a shorter game better? I don't mean to make it artificially short like playing tiny galaxy with one opponent, but based on your settings, faster would be better right? If longer games got higher scores, you could get to a point where you practically have won and extent the turns by not acting like signing up the last alliance, etc.
Well in any case, I'd like to learn to post with my character too, I just made one and played a game.