Talk of the player score, It's never really bothered me actually. Since it's not just military power but economic too, and things like archives add to it. So sometimes if I see multiple archives up but similar points I can jump straight into the lions den.
Having said that, playing as a substrate player I get called a cheater every now and then from players who obviously haven't played substrate.
Building 1 engineer and a factory gets you to 460+ points in 2 minutes. From one perspective I do understand a bit of uncertainty. However surely that one is easy to fix?
Cheers