Thanks so much to the staff members, this has been a big fun.
Thanks also to all participants, specially those who wrote their logs for others to learn from.
Regarding the scoring system, it must be wrong. How can my awful game be rated the 26th? I suppose all of us made a lot of mistakes, the game being so new.
My objective for the game is always "to win asap" so I choose the VC that best suits the current map. IMHO it is not good to leverage the score of different VC: if you are playing a duel map, how can you even consider a Spaceship Victory? So if it were my decision, only victory date would be taken into account, not population or anything else. This is my personal option, anyway.
On the other hand, Cultural Victory is a completely different beast, it has nothing to do with a "normal" game. Hummmmm.
@abegweit, you are completely right when you say that there must be a lot of idle time for people putting more then 30 hours in the game. I did not pour over the game for 60 hours, there was actually a 30 minutes interruption ;-)
I have the necesity to visit a city every time it grows, as I don't trust the governor. And also, when War Weariness takes a citizen out. And also... So it takes me a lot of time to complete a game.
That's why GOTM2 is not being so fun for me, post-1000AD-turns take so long in Epic as they used to do with Civ3 (when it took me 9 months to complete a GOTM, so I only played QSC and abandoned the game). If someone wrote a guide to play using minimal real-life time, I would be grateful.
A final question: the score and the final score don't seem to correlate. Take two random players, jesusin 26th and klarius 25th, for example. Same VC, same year, their values are 5401-42589 and 5310-43339. The second has less score but more final score.
Is the "score" not the score on the winning date but on the previous date? Then the example situation would be explained if jesusin just got one more tile in his territory to barely achieve Domination Victory in his last turn whereas klarius got a lot of cities growing in pop and a lot of borders expansion and maybe a couple of culture-bombs in that last turn.
I am sorry I can't open the saves to verify it mysef.