Played today on large painful and culture-flipped my last opponent before I maxed out the tech. The score was a little over 12,000. So I could get a good feel for what tech development adds, I reloaded and gave those snakey Torians a fully maxed out 343% culture boosting star base. This kept their final planet "in the green". I then finished tech, built a couple of wonders that it gave me, and terraformed most of my planets. After getting all the tech, I build about a dozen maxed out culture bases on their border, got my influence into the millions in their sector, and finally flipped the snakes. My final score I submitted to the metaverse was a bit under 15,000 and my highest score yet. So, for what it is worth, finishing the tech added a 20 to 25% boost to my score where I won the military victory without the tech. This is not pure because the population went up and I got a couple more trade good / wonders but is sort of gives a feel for what researching all the techs can do to one's score. As mentioned above, I turn the non-military victory conditions off because military scores much better than the other victory methods. Please share your point boosting strategies. Thanks.
Rick
~SDC~