This is a fun, friendly game, by the way. And YES, the Romans are in 1st place, and by a considerable margin, too!
Place - Points - Name
1 - 359K - Novum Romanum Imperium
2 - 289K - United Federation
3 - 285K - UAC
4 - 271K - Space Monkeys (These are my noble people)
5 - 192K - Mi-Go (capnq's lowdown space scum)
This game is still in the very early stages, turn 35, and the situation is still quite fluid, both physically and diplomatically.
I should warn the prospective replacement player that Nivek set this game up with some (for PBW) ususual parameters.
There are AI races and neutrals.
And the reason I can quote you exact scores above is because Nivek set the scores to "view all".
Now, these settings are unusual, but by no means a bad thing. The potential "fun factor" in this game is quite large. The unusual factors just add randomness, and should make for a far less unpredicable game than usual.
I am having a blast so far, and I'd really like to see a friendly, open-minded player join us.
I mean, we are offering you the empire in first place, FFS