What factors into the final game score?

This weekend I managed to finish 2 games (played on small and medium maps so I could finish them before another update came through) and got scores of 11 and 14. I though I won them fairly convincingly, through culture on the first and alliance on the second. Yet I see on the metaverse a score 100 times higher on the same difficulty level (normal).

So I wonder, beside difficulty, what factors into the final score? Map size? Type of victory (that was a huge factor in GC2)? Military power (same in GC2)? Number of opponents?

Has anyone analyzed this yet? Thanks ...

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My experiences is that building alot of powerful ships pushes the score significantly. Another factor is population, you can get higher scores on huge maps with many habitable planets.

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Publius of NV

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I prefer to play on large maps with lots of habitable planets, so after they stop changing the code every day I'll go back to that. I remember Mumblefratz's exploit in GC2 of building a huge array of military starbases overlapping their zones and then sending as many huge hulled 1 attack 1 defense ships as you could to get them all buffed by the starbases. I tried that once and decided it was more fun to role-play than to try to max out a metaverse score. But I found it interesting nonetheless.

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