Top AI scores seen?

[DirectorTsaarx]

I tried to post this Last night & got an error message...

Anyway, I've had a few games recently where the AI got scores well in excess of 1M (even 2M, eventually). My Last pre-Gold games had pretty high AI scores; my first Gold game had multiple AI's over 1M, with Terrans the highest; and my current Gold game (with patch) has Terrans in first with 1.4M score (at turn 91, even!) and the Amon'krie in second with 977k score. I'm way behind on points, mostly because I don't build a lot of ships. I've been at war with the Amon'krie for a long time, but they're 8 systems away, with the Toltayans controlling the intervening systems. I had a partnership with the Toltayans for a long time, and then suddenly they declared war on me. It could have been a Comms Mimic (the Amon'krie were hitting me with intel pretty continuously), but not necessarily. Anyway, I'm continuing to ignore the Amon'krie and decimating the Toltayans. I'm very glad I put minefields on warp points throughout their territory. I'm even happier that I built bases at strategic locations in their territory. A combination of 1 base space yard and 1 drone-launching base turns out to be a pretty good offense. It's perfect for destroying small colonies, at least. Especially since the Toltayans focus mostly on seeking weapons, which can't target drones (MWAHAHAHAHA!!!). I may want to add more base space yards so I can build drones faster, though...

[kalthalior]

Had an interesting game before I bought Gold where (due to galactic geopgraphy) I was blocked by black holes, long planetless voids and the like from entering the NW quadrant of the galaxy. I started in the NE quadrant, had to fight tough battles against the Romulans (they eventually surrendered), and a couple of other races to get into the SE quadrant and move west from there. The Sergetti had a score of 3.1 million (with most of the systems in the NW corner, and 200+ ships) before I developed Stellar Manipulation and popped a couple of fleets into their home systems via new warp points. I bypassed several planets that had as many as 3 SB's on them to slag several colony worlds with my 30 DN fleet w/ QR's. The Aquilarioans were over 2.5 million as well with a group of systems in the far western edges of the galaxy, never did get around to face off with them. Could well be the longest game I have ever played.