I am currently trying to find a way to tie inflation to the total Dust production over time of the empire which has produced the most Dust, rather than the total Dust production over time of all empires in the galaxy.

Seeing as how the game has to determine which Empire has the highest total Dust production in order to determine the positions of each empire for an Economic Victory on the Victory Types tab in the Empire screen, I am hoping to find a way to reference the empire in 1st place in some way. Can this be done, and if so, how?

Hey IceGremlin,

Unfortunately this information would have to be calculated by the code, which means you can't use it in a mod unless it's implemented.

The Economic victory score cannot be used in this situation, since the property "highest dust accumulated" would have to be copied from the best empire to all other empires, and that's also done via code.

I was looking to do the exact same thing : thanks for this answer