Formula Change For Metaverse?

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Have they changed the formula for the scoring?
My scores dont seem to add up, i submitted an 18000+ this morning and it only gave me 4000 out of it, as i have for the last few days been submitting a game a day, (im bored and being undead have no use for crimbo), and been getting some good scores (for me) , well i checked because i felt 4000 was a bit low ...

all my games = 203700
divide by 3.4641016151377544 (12 games)
=58803.1249169633872905136065882489

so thats 58803 ??

my score reads 74366

Have they changed things? or is it because ive put in a game a day and the formula changes for games submitted so close together? (i think i heard mention that after 31 days your scores are re-evaluated under a different formula, so thats why i thought it might be about the games submitted so close)

Thanks :)
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Quit alot of activity you have got for just a little more than a month.

Yes the games yuo submit are divided into blocks of 30 or 31 days and then divided by the sqrt of number of games in each block.

The point in each block ages 5% each month.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I work nights, im a partial insomniac (4 hours sleep is good for me) and i must admit that i play this game far too much :D
Ive been playing 4X games for over twenty years and this is the best ever (try asking grandad about M.U.L.E LOL ). I keep tweaking the difficulity up a notch (i only found out a couple of days ago by mistake you that you could turn off the other AI's, so ive been playing against all of them) and the game seems to change with the AI doing new things to bemuse me in the way it reacts to things, its very well done and Stardock deserve much more credit (both public and moneywise) than they are getting, the random events and morale allignment tech tree and attitudes from other races is sheer genius, its funny though that Stardock being the kings of customising your desktop should have the morale aligment GUI looking so wonky in game LOL it looks half finished (the neutral one is in all of them, look at the tactical) id like to see the GUI a bit tidier, it adds atmosphere and with all the work done on the tech tree (and Stardock please change the music for Evil, Neutral, Good when you get a new tech) and AI reactions thats the only two things that really stick out as looking / sounding odd.

my 50p's worth :)
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
If you've got excel, grab the spreadsheet at http://www.galciv.org/metaverse1.zip

Enter the scores/dates in the score manager page, and it'll do the calcs for you!

Alex

~SDC~
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Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I can do the calcs (see the first post) :D

I just wondered why my scores dont add up, they always used to using that formula.
As for Excel, i try try not to use Microflop bits they make my PC wonky LOL thanks though