Thats way too much reward for losses.

A user, playing on hard for a few turns could retire (lose) a game in 10 to 15 minutes and still score a 1000 points or so. If the metaverse was purely based on quantity of games submitted rather than having some level of quality measured then it's purely the player who cranks out the most games. You would get someon ewho would literally submit 1000 games where they just started teh game, got the game goin ga bit and then retired being at the top while the guy who played on a hard difficulty all the way to the end, taking 16 hours to do it, being at the bottom. Quantity of games should matter but so should the quality of the game.

Frogboy, your entire argument is based on people submitting losing games over and over again, how about not letting people submit losing games since 99.999% dont. Now please pick apart my idea for metaverse scoring plz....try...i dare you...

my idea is instead of the formula which i believe is total/games played ^4 right? is it (total/games)^4 or total/ games ^4, it makes a huge difference. also, that doesnt make sense, i have posted 2 games, 9500 and 9750, yes i am bad, i did first formula, it equals 1209 second = some insanely huge number but my metaverse score is about 14675. what is the formula!!! aside from that, i believe that the basic average of your scores should be your score. 100 2000 point games yields 2000 points 2 80000 point games yields 40000 points. that way, a lost game wouldnt be posted, the scoring would make sense and would only change if you submit a lot of high scoring games

Personally I don't really care about my MV score I post my games just to keep track of them and if there was a way to do that without the MV I would.

Of course I don't really mind that I keep climbing higher with each game I post.

I just don't care about the metraverse and scores, I just play the game and have fun, and really why does a score for games even matter? It's not like anyone is going to care.

gallagher118: how you get some many points in one game?
My best was 26 years, 1 enemy, challenging, militery victory, gigantic galaxy, 27 planets and 9000 points1?!?!? how can that be?
need help

My best was 26 years, 1 enemy, challenging, militery victory, gigantic galaxy, 27 planets and 9000 points1?!?!? how can that be? need help

Play a higher difficulty and end the game quicker. After something like 12 years you start losing points. After about 20, you're losing quite a lot of points. And you need more races.

You get rewarded for your economy, population, tec level, and who knows what else. This score is multiplied depending on victory condition. (conquest is best)

Then, this score is divided by the number of turns it took you to do it. So in all reality there are probably 2 maximum points in your score graph. One early on where you have an ok score, but are dividing by a small number. And then late in the game proabably around 8 years where you have a very high score, and are dividing it quite a bit.

I tend to try for the 1st one, as playing longer gets boring. Playing larger galaxies also helps a lot with the individual components as does the difficulty.

I really wish Frogboy would post the ideas/philosophy behind scoring on the metaverse

Stardock has decided this is how you score in the metaverse so that's how you score. Understand it and play it

You get rewarded for your economy, population, tec level, and who knows what else

Had a big long rant/post but heh the quotes pretty much sum it up -- I'ld like to know what scores points in a game and how game scores are used to calculate a characters overall metaverse score.

Am I missing something on the website where this info is at?

I think Unfunf worked out the scoring formula to be an exact science, and I'll ask him if he could lend it to me. He's quite capable of telling from a score if someone is cheating or exploiting the AI, so I think he should be able to tell how to work it out.

I was on the tail end of a painful gigantic month long conquest victory that I knew would raise my metaverse standing, but I made the fatal mistake of upgrading to the lasted beta version. I was unable to complete to conquest victory because of the “out of memory” bug that ground the game to a halt. So I loaded a few turns back just to get a diplomatic victory but was denied that because my metaverse game now thought it was modded. Sure enough my mod box was somehow now checked. I'll never again question the AI of GCII, I cower in the corner utterly defeated.