Congratulations on joining the Metaverse!

As to how to improve your scores: There are some important techniques, but there aren't any real short cuts. It's a matter of gaining experience and improving your level of play. Joining an empire is also a very good idea, since their private forums can have a lot of valuable information and the more experienced players are typically very generous in offering help. I would recommend the Tyranny of Evil personally. In any case, welcome again, and have fun .

Congratulations, 13K on a medium map is at the very least a good, solid score!

Some key points to higher scores (taken from discussions of far better players than me - I can't remember submitting any scores higher than 13K):
1) Speed. Just take a look at the ZYW (zero-year-win) thread to see the impact. Scores up to 40K have been achieved on tiny maps, by completing a military victory as soon as Metaverse allows it (which is somewhere in April, finishing sooner trips a cheat flag)
2) Speed in getting each score component (social, tech, military, econ) up. Crucial buildings here are econ capital, tech capital, manufacturing capital, spin control center. And the mind control center before it was fixed
Conquering minors and AI home planets works wonders for this as soon as they built some of those capitals.
3) Advanced weapons to boost military score, especially if you choose to be evil.
4) Difficulty: higher levels than "normal" give a higher score multiplier. In addition being forced to keep up with stronger AI's will make you improve faster too.
5) Game settings such as galaxy size, tech rate, availability of planets/stars/anomalies/... The more habitable planets, the higher your population (society score), economy and therefore military you can support.

Thank you for the tips. I have a lot of learning to do i guess

Tech is defintely the weak sister when it comes to scoring, so concentrate on things that boost your econ, military, and social scores. Do everything as early in the game as possible, and you will see a nice jump in your scores. The Spin Control Center is a efficient and easy way to really ramp up your military score. For social, put at least one farm on every planet to increase your population, and use fertility clinics to make it grow quickly. For econ, fill some worlds with nothing but economic buildings, which will pump up your score, and also consequently let you support a larger military, increasing that score too.

Sentient species taste better...

Anyone that has banged out a sick scoring game can not say enough to emphasize this. I took it to heart and started making combat ships earlier, even though they were kinda limp. But get on the board early, and I saw a noticeable increase in my mil score at the end of the game.


And congrats on the win!! Start up a new one and slaughter some more