Zero Score - Now What?
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Well, that sucked. 
I just got my first Zero score. Also my first tiny Maso (rare). I thought I should do at least one Tiny. Well, that may be all I ever do, if the game is going to deny me score credit for no apparent reason. SURE AS HECK WOULD BE NICE IF IT TOLD US WHY IT THINKS A RESULT IS OUT OF BOUNDS.
I have no idea why the game thought this was an anomalous game. I had one crash to desktop. I sold techs out the wazoo to both Cari and Alex, who were both buying. I stored up over 25k in cash by the late game, almost all of it minor cash. With only two planets, at first, then three after I took out the Yor, I just couldn't spend all the money I was raking in. (Could that have been it?) And I went about conquering. I conquered the Yor earlyish, with battle cruisers. For the first time ever, I even traded for ships. (Wow, Tiny/Rare with +60 diplo is more of a cakewalk than I imagined). Then I racked up some wonders, and did not go after the Arceans until I had battleships, and did not finish them until I had dreads. The other races were single planets. I paused to clean up a few more wonders, and then I finished it off. Zero points? Blah.
What can I do from here? Is there any way to tell why the game zeroed out the score for this one? The only thing I did differently than normal here was trading for AI ships. I don't usually do that, but I tried it. I traded for freighters, warships... even took the Yor's only battle cruiser for four techs and then beat them silly with their own ship. I didn't even hit ctrl-n or reload at any point. I took the first map it gave me, and would have played it all the way from start to finish in one session except the CTD forced me to reload from an autosave once.
With no way to determine why the score was zeroed, I have no way to know what to avoid, or whether or not I actually got ripped off. I'm feeling gunshy about Tiny maps now. Got bit on my first one on Maso.
Not that I lost, far from that. This was the biggest cakewalk I've ever had on any difficulty level. But all I did was play, and the game has dissed my result. Blah.
Is there any sort of process whereby Stardock looks at anomalous results? Can I send the saved game somewhere? Not so much for credit, as to have them look at it to see what went wrong and if anything is needing to be fixed.
- Sirian
I just got my first Zero score. Also my first tiny Maso (rare). I thought I should do at least one Tiny. Well, that may be all I ever do, if the game is going to deny me score credit for no apparent reason. SURE AS HECK WOULD BE NICE IF IT TOLD US WHY IT THINKS A RESULT IS OUT OF BOUNDS.I have no idea why the game thought this was an anomalous game. I had one crash to desktop. I sold techs out the wazoo to both Cari and Alex, who were both buying. I stored up over 25k in cash by the late game, almost all of it minor cash. With only two planets, at first, then three after I took out the Yor, I just couldn't spend all the money I was raking in. (Could that have been it?) And I went about conquering. I conquered the Yor earlyish, with battle cruisers. For the first time ever, I even traded for ships. (Wow, Tiny/Rare with +60 diplo is more of a cakewalk than I imagined). Then I racked up some wonders, and did not go after the Arceans until I had battleships, and did not finish them until I had dreads. The other races were single planets. I paused to clean up a few more wonders, and then I finished it off. Zero points? Blah.
What can I do from here? Is there any way to tell why the game zeroed out the score for this one? The only thing I did differently than normal here was trading for AI ships. I don't usually do that, but I tried it. I traded for freighters, warships... even took the Yor's only battle cruiser for four techs and then beat them silly with their own ship. I didn't even hit ctrl-n or reload at any point. I took the first map it gave me, and would have played it all the way from start to finish in one session except the CTD forced me to reload from an autosave once.
With no way to determine why the score was zeroed, I have no way to know what to avoid, or whether or not I actually got ripped off. I'm feeling gunshy about Tiny maps now. Got bit on my first one on Maso.
Not that I lost, far from that. This was the biggest cakewalk I've ever had on any difficulty level. But all I did was play, and the game has dissed my result. Blah.Is there any sort of process whereby Stardock looks at anomalous results? Can I send the saved game somewhere? Not so much for credit, as to have them look at it to see what went wrong and if anything is needing to be fixed.
- Sirian
You can tell that I'm not lying when I say I have only very rarely used diplo bonuses, by the fact that I had 30 Maso games logged before I ran into this problem. 
