I find
@tupi's idea quite interesting: To increase the score by increasing the population beyond what's sustainable. Building settlers to grow underfed cities to 10 is only one way of doing this.
I find it simpler to capitalize on filled granaries at the end of the game. As others have pointed out, due to the pollution bug the only way to reach max score is to max out population. To max out population you need to max out cities, which are limited to 127. The idea is to grow population beyond what 127 cities can sustain on the given terrain.
Assume you have two cities with overlapping squares. One is controlling all overlapping squares, lets say is of size 32, and has a filled granary. Lets assume the other city is only size 10, because it's squeezed in between other prospering cities. So when you know you spaceship will reach Alpha Centauri in 10 turns, you can turn over the overlapping squares to the second city and let it celebrate each turn. After 10 turns you still have your size 32 city, with a degrading, but not yet empty granary. And you have another size 20 city.
You can of course combine this strategy with using settler to grow your smaller city to 10 first.
Using this strategy in a recent game I was able to get a score of 5005, 500% on vanilla civ 474.05, playing EARTH. In the end I got a little bit impatient of micro management, it should have been possible to get an even higher score out the game.
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how do you do it?
