Does anyone know the formula SEIV uses to calculate score?

[geoschmo]

Sounds like this is getting good. Glad to see some more people getting into the contest. Nyx says they haven't had a lot lot of hits on their SEIV page.

TOMGS and DRAKE or anyone, have we found out whether the game actually stops you from building ships once you reach the 2000 limit? I am getting close and figured if it stops me like SEIII did I'll just let hit the wall and stop automatically. Otherwise I gotta go through 200+yards and turn off all the repeats. MM Hell-ya!

[Drake]

It doesn't stop you. They've said we're to stick to 2000 max combined for bases and ships. If you just use the biggest SB, that'll get you 50M points right there. Everything else should be resources, because you'll almost always get more from a Monolith III than your research facilities.

Just a tip, but make sure to scrap any planetary engineering components after turn 141, as all improvements take place before construction happens on turns ending in a 1. You won't have any use for them in the Last 10 turns, and they'll take up space you could put a Monolith III on, generating more resources for you. (and a higher score!)

-Drake

[geoschmo]

I haven't used any planetary engineering fac's in the contest. I figured they take to long to build enough of them to make a difference before the 150 turns.

Of course I thought the same thing about ringworlds. laf

[Drake]

Did I say planetary engineering? Silly me, what I meant to say was umm Shrines, yeah that's it. Be sure and fill your planets with nature shrines on every planet and scrap everything on your final turn. You people will love you for it, and tha's what really counts, right?

Yep, since the game doesn't warn you that other nature shrines are in the system, you must be getting the benefit from all of them! No need to check this yourself, truuuust me, heheheh.

-Drake

[Tomgs]

Actually I was evil enough to test nature shrines in an earlier game so that I know (no they don't both work but you don't get a warning either). However there is a cheat ( I notified Twingalaxies and Malfadore about this already though ). System Robotoid facilities and Time shrines do stack even though they say they don't. You don't see it on the planetary resource screen (because all system adds are shown on the Empire screen) but if you build both and scrap the time shrines your production goes down. Maybe other overlapping system facilities also do this but I haven't tested any others yet.

[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 08 February 2001).]

[Drake]

Hmm, I never bothered trying to build the time shrines, I just figured they wouldn't stack, and were inferior to the sys robot fac. I noticed that gestation vats and medical labs don't add the %, so I figured it was working correctly across the board. Doh!

I'm wishing I hadn't gotten religious tech - It's good for an early boost to planet %s, but I'm thinking it was a waste of 1500 points. Ah well.

-Drake

[alasyr]

But nature shrines stack up with planetary value and climate improvement facilities making 0.6/year improvements.