the highest score ever

what can be the highest score to the metaverse? and how do I get high socres? I always get less then 9000 and I already played gigantic galaxy, and I reserched all the techs, but I saw people who got amazing socres like 20000 or 150000 so what is the secret in your success?
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Reply #1 Top
I don't know how to score 150000-200000 but I scored a 61250 on my first Metaverse game so I can surely get you well above 9000.

At game setup:
(1) Disable all victory conditions except for Military Conquest
(2) Select gigantic map with everything abundant (more habitable planets means more people)
(3) Select the maximum 9 opponents
(4) Select very fast research (to research the most possible in a short game)
(5) Select the hardest difficult level you can handle

As your population grows so to does your score; however, as the years increase your score goes down, so you have to find the sweet spot. Keeping your morale at 100% will give you a 100% bonus to your population growth. I won my game with > 3 trillion people on Dec 15, 2229 (just short of 5 years but the scoring rounded it down to 4 years). So I suggest trying to complete you game in December for maximum population growth while minimizing your years. Also play as neutral to get those Neutrality Learning Centers (22 units to research each!) which will greatly speed up your research. In my short (in terms of turns but it actually took me 2 months in real time to play with my busy schedule!) game I was just 3-4 turns away from completing the tech tree! I hope this helps.

Paul D.
Reply #2 Top
thanks very much i'll try that, but I think everyone in the 9 opponents will sure want to kill me if it's cakewalk or suidical but thanks
Reply #3 Top
The AI is kinda useless until you set them to the bright setting, then they get slightly better, but are still pretty easy to deal with.
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I just tried it but it's too hard for me... when I press on my first turn the Yor are already have 10 planets.. he's cheating!
Reply #5 Top
There is no meaning in Metaverse scores how many opponents you have. For maximazing you scores use only couple opponents. This leaves you hundreds planets in gigantic maps if you are quickly enough.
Reply #6 Top
There is no meaning in Metaverse scores how many opponents you have. For maximazing you scores use only couple opponents. This leaves you hundreds planets in gigantic maps if you are quickly enough.


What makes you so sure?
If you are going for military conquest (which scores most points), you'd have to vanquish all foes. And there is an in-game count of foes, the victory screen (not at the end, but in-game!) tells you, how many empires are left for a military conquest victory.
So, isn't it possible that the more empires you defeat, the more points you get in the military section?

Reply #7 Top
I agree, but I more want to belive that it's don't count
Reply #8 Top
Of course I couldn't be absolutely sure, but all my games which I have played hints that direction.

All the military points you will get will come only your ships armaments and hull sizes. As far as I have noticed there is no meaning how many opponents ship you have destroyed.
Reply #9 Top
I'm pretty sure that the number of opponents isn't important for the military score. I just finished a game where I sat back and did massive tech advances while the other civs slugged it out. At the end after I had almost all techs I built three massive ships and killed several hundred ships of the other races. Since my military ranking was almost zero the entire game until the last year, my final military score was one-fifth that of the primary military race even though our final kill count was almost identical. This would imply to me that the important thing is just to keep your military ranking at or over 100 for the majority of the game for a maxed military score.
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ok, but how can you do that, what you do? you research all the laser, mass driver and missile techs and then conquer the enemy? I don't think so. when the AI is on suicidal he just send you alot of frighters and then he make war of you and in the last he sends his all 58 mass driver ships to put a blockade on my 20 planets when he got 68 and all that heppend in the 4th year?!!?!?!?!? how can that be possible what can I research in 4 years of play? (1 and a half hour)