AGENT93

I actually had a minor race that was attacking civs and took planets. When I went to halt their progression they had powerful ships, not as powerful as mine, true, but powerful enough to cause problems. They also sent out troops ships to all of my worlds and some fell because they were so powerful on the ground and I had no ships in orbit. As I said in the original statement had I not stopped them right then they could have gone ape on the galaxy. It sounds like that isn't a common occ

IMO If there is any truth to what Livonya posted it seems that there are two different goals winning the game and scoring. It definatly seems as if the scoring can be manipulated and therefore it becomes it's own challenge. I'm not sure I am making my point but I don't see anything wrong with both views. If you are using the metaverse as gauge to measure yourself against others, don't just look at the score, look at the level they are playing and then make your judgement. . .

I have been observing a trend in my games and wnated some input form more experienced players, This is my anecdotal experience: Minor races appear to be higher in tech almost immediatly Minor races that appear later in the game are also more advanced tech wise If you leave minor races alone for any period of time it will come back to haunt you I left one minor race alone for too long and they almost became the power house of the galaxy, having to fight them back into s

I had a similiar situation, but I lucked into it (sort of). I was playing a gigantic map with all civs involved at a normal game intelligence. I was doing well when the galaxy got to vote on who gets the prisoner base. Experience had told me that at some point it always goes south and creates a situation similiar to pirates. Not wanting to deal with it I voted it to the Torians who at the time was the only civ that was friendly to me. They also were the only ones that were close to me i

Well, I took the advice offered initially and my score jumped from the 3500-4000 range to over 11,000. still not nearly as big as most that I have seen, but the additional replies have given me a good understanding. Thanks again all of you for your help.

Thanks for all of the input. I now have new strategies.

Does anyone know the breakdown on scoring? I had thought it might be like Civilization (higher difficulties nets higher score), but I have been stepping up the difficulty and I keep getting the same general score. Around 3500-4500 pts. I am fairly new to this (Love the game by the way) and would appreciate any suggestions.