Does anyone know the formula SEIV uses to calculate score?

[geoschmo]

Well I can't speak for Nyx, but I am the one he was quoting.

I would agree with you 110% that it doesn't make me a better SEIV player. I would no doubt get my behind spanked by many of you in a multi-player game.

However, in a multi-player game I would never dream of using some of the strategies that would make one be succesful in a tournament such as the one twingalaxies is hosting.

The fact is though that if you are going to have a competition open to all, you have to come up with some way of figuring out who was the winner. They have just decided that score is the way they are going to do that. So it makes sense for us to discuss various strategies to accoplish that goal. It doesn't mean your way of rating players is any less valid.

IDIC right?

I think this is just because twingalaxies has been around for a long time and this is what they are used to doing. It makes sense in pinball or other video games to use score.(Really it wouldn't make sense to use anything else in those games. Maybe how many beers you drink while playing?)

My favorite thing about Space Empires is the flexibiltiy it gives you. It has something for everybody. Ability to mod, different victory conditions, and so on.

[This message has been edited by geoschmo (edited 25 January 2001).]

[This message has been edited by geoschmo (edited 25 January 2001).]