The Cheaters v1.3 released

[douglas]

Urendi Maleldil said:
The Cheaters v1.0

The cheats they use:
200x Space Yard rate
Puts more than 6 engines on ship designs
Uses non-ship components on ships

You forgot to mention "ignores limits on range of characteristics". Speaking of which, if you set up the politics file to never have trade treaties, you could drop political savvy far into the negatives for extra points. Also, if you really want a challenge from them, change the culture to berzerkers and raise aggressiveness/defensiveness to illegally high levels (greater than 125). That would be much more effective than going all out construction and maintenance, provided that the ship design includes enough PDC's to neutralize missiles.

Edit: If you don't care about making troops completely useless for actual combat, which you apparently don't since physical strength is at 0, you could also drop physical strength to a very negative value to get extra points.