I am playing the game for the first time with Hisso. I have fought hard to secure my portion of the galaxy, around 10 systems or so mostly with all planets colonized in them, against my nearest neighbour (Empire thingy) and am now around turn 80 or so.



I often check the diplomacy screen to see the progress score for each race. I am slightly trailing behind Empire and quite ahead of sophos (spelling?) at around the 800-900 points mark. I though I was around the average having some chances etc but then I have just made contact with the Horatios and these guys progress rank points is a bloody 2500+!!! wtf is this normal and is my first game really sucking that bad? OR is it possible that those race progress points may be skewed by some not so relevant (in terms of conflict or domination) parameter I am unaware of?

It maybe is a bug? Have heard of stuff like this before.

I have had odd things happen, for example I won a game on turn 10. insane pirates. Sooo I guess they sort of lost rather than me won lol.

Viajero wrote:
I am playing the game for the first time with Hisso. I have fought hard to secure my portion of the galaxy, around 10 systems or so mostly with all planets colonized in them, against my nearest neighbour (Empire thingy) and am now around turn 80 or so.



I often check the diplomacy screen to see the progress score for each race. I am slightly trailing behind Empire and quite ahead of sophos (spelling?) at around the 800-900 points mark. I though I was around the average having some chances etc but then I have just made contact with the Horatios and these guys progress rank points is a bloody 2500+!!! wtf is this normal and is my first game really sucking that bad? OR is it possible that those race progress points may be skewed by some not so relevant (in terms of conflict or domination) parameter I am unaware of?

There is a bug where the AI is allowed to overproduce ships. It could be something along those lines, that all the Horatio's points are for exploited ship construction. Then again it could just be that they were isolated to start with, so while you, the United Empire and the Sophons were all putting your resources into fighting each other the Horatio were sitting back throwing everything they had into expansion and tech.

I don't find score to be very useful when evaluating the enemy AI. I'm often thousands of points behind them when I start my campaign that ends in their complete destruction.