How is your score calculated?

[Krakenup]

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Originally posted by capnq:
Where did you get these numbers, and how confident are you in them? AFAIK, the scoring formula has never been documented.

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It's pretty simple. You look at the scores, go kill something, and then look at the scores again. Unless I made a typo or something, I'm very confident.

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Note that colonies and their population indirectly add to the score by producing the resource/research/intelligence points.

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Yes, but a fully developed, breathable colony bristling with WP's and satellites with an enemy transport in orbit counts the same as, well, nothing. It's far too easy to reduce an enemy's score down to where they surrender.

[raynor]

I'm in complete agreement with the idea of including units in the score. Building tons of fighters instead of ships is an extremely easy way to beat the AI at all levels of difficulty and bonus because you can so readily avoid ever being seen as a threat by the AI.

If I were designing a better formula for score, I would probably weight the score based upon the firepower of the ships instead of just the raw tonnage.

[Suicide Junkie]

Something like hitpoints * damage capability would be good. Then, empty hulls are not really valuable, civilian-type craft are not too valuable, and Weapon-only ships are not over valued. The ship with balanced offence and defense will be worth the most.

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