I like the idea of a military score, but to be honest a new score only works if the community accepts it as a win.

One way to get acceptance is to actually give prices for obtaining first place.

I don't like score too much but in its defense it does give a decent reflection of which families dominated tha galaxy for the longest period of the round. Everyone is playing for the snapshot at the end of the last tick though and the middle is just a means to that end.

I'm not a fan of score as it currently stands, but a revised score system could still be a useful indicator of progress.

A military score could be useful, but how would it work for bankers?

I saw Orion put in another thread about how players within a family should not be ranked by score as it discourages teamwork as players may want to come out on top within their own family, which loses sight of the value of smaller players.

I would agree with that assessment, although the same could be said for either networth or planets.

Overall, I would agree that we don't really need score. If it is to stay, it should be made clearer as to how it is calculated and what it actually represents.

Networth and planets count actually makes sense cause they provide a lot of information to you.  E.g. high planet = banker/resourcer, a huge nw increase = fleet jump, etc.

I think score on the other hand, for individual players, tells you nothing.  And like Orion said, possibly even harmful.  For fams, it kind of tells you how the fam did overall.  For example if you look at the *Cars* fam, if you only saw planets and NW, you would think they are a terrible fam, but if you look at score, you realize that something happened to them and it was due to the mistake made in the war.  Or if you look at se7ven and Rogue One, you realize they were playing from behind and made a huge comeback in NW.

Rank     Family     Planets     Networth     Score
1     Hunting Angels (3679) [37,22]     1271     13133765     118660
2     THE U.S. MARINE CORPS 1916 (3683) [22,42]     1485     9514191     118529
3     *Cars* (3681) [39,61]     490     10225426     111886
4     Dark Angels (3680) [77,32]     802     8530875     103860
5     se7en (3685) [62,51]     859     13647096     88360
6     Rogue One dont drive cars (3684) [57,6]     761     11911177     87732
7     slammed (3682) [21,79]     478     6803623     67738
8     Penelope Pitstops Pink Pussies (3678) [77,72]     338     3795638     44439

I do think score has some uses for fams, but completely useless for individual players
(side note: if you look at top list, you further see that rogue one is top in production for pretty much everything which I find impressive. Props to you guys)

Fam rankings would be nice, feels like that is more important anyways

I think Score does give a good idea at the activity of a fam, especially at sor, but if it was to stay it would obviously need reworking, as it stands its nothing more than a guage for activity, all the above mentioned ideas have their merit but in the long run is it really worth it? planet count shows attacking "score" and nw shows score on using infra well, to an extent, maybe not so much with current Morale formula.

so as i've beaten around the bush, Score CAN be good, but needs a serious overhaul, can you be bothered pie? with so many other things that really should be done before it.

I disagree with Random. It's useless as it is, and it doesn't add anything if reworked. We're treating it as if it's something that we 'need'. Yes you can track successful passes and kilometers covered in a football match (soccer for the US guys amongst us), but what it the purpose. It's about goals scored. And Imperial Conflict is about how many planets you have as a fam at the end of the round.

Make it very clear that that is the thing that matters, and make a 'Galaxy fam statistics page' somewhere in the Rankings menu, where you can show score, total logins, completed aid shipments, planets conquered, planets lost and planets explored, succesfull agressive ops/spells etc if you like.

If score is included in imperial history it will get accepted in time wich is a good idea in my opinion. This game is all numbers so why not have more numbers to keep u busy