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Pyre posted 05-29-99 02:10 AM ET
Think I saw a post saying some players have achieved 9000+ scores before.
How is this done?
MichaeltheGreat posted 05-29-99 02:39 AM ET
You have to be able to stay awake and unbored long enough - even though you can "win" faster, the bonus for early whatever is not as high as you can get for playing to the last possible turn, and doing everything possible - if you play a few times and retire early, you can get some ideas of what the game uses to calculate score - build or conquer all the SP's, get a million techs, fill planet up with cities, go to a 100% psych to make everybody happy, blah blah blah - the only trouble is it takes so damned long, and the only challenge is how long can you stand it, or how high can you go - also Ironman boosts your score, as does playing at Transcend, etc.
I've still got a game I haven't come back to in a while that's in the high 6000's and climbing, and I've got plenty of game time left, but it's so boring (50 billion formers to move around, etc.) that it almost drives me to tears to play another turn. I'm vaguely curious to see at what score the score counter busts like it did in Civ2, but even I don't have so little of a life that I can stand to play that particular game.
Once the challenge is gone, I just quit and start a new game. It's a lot more fun that way.
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Author	Topic: 9000+ scores
Pyre	posted 05-29-99 02:10 AM ET Think I saw a post saying some players have achieved 9000+ scores before. How is this done?
MichaeltheGreat	posted 05-29-99 02:39 AM ET You have to be able to stay awake and unbored long enough - even though you can "win" faster, the bonus for early whatever is not as high as you can get for playing to the last possible turn, and doing everything possible - if you play a few times and retire early, you can get some ideas of what the game uses to calculate score - build or conquer all the SP's, get a million techs, fill planet up with cities, go to a 100% psych to make everybody happy, blah blah blah - the only trouble is it takes so damned long, and the only challenge is how long can you stand it, or how high can you go - also Ironman boosts your score, as does playing at Transcend, etc. I've still got a game I haven't come back to in a while that's in the high 6000's and climbing, and I've got plenty of game time left, but it's so boring (50 billion formers to move around, etc.) that it almost drives me to tears to play another turn. I'm vaguely curious to see at what score the score counter busts like it did in Civ2, but even I don't have so little of a life that I can stand to play that particular game. Once the challenge is gone, I just quit and start a new game. It's a lot more fun that way.