How is this possible and what can I learn or do out of this?

[Seraiel]

I'm at 1300 AD now and Score seems to be constant. Sushi didn't really give much, rush-bought tons of executives with Kremel and spread it to every city, but as there can be only 5 executives at one time (and I really coordinated spreading by creating executive production centers on different points of the map and then spread circlewise and fast with short movement) it took at least 100-200y. I could have finished that game already at 800 AD, getting almost the same score of about 1M because of the higher bonus. Notice, I'm at 80+ Cities now, and I think I will end the game by vassalizing the two Ottomanians in the same turn which might give some extra points, Mansa sits safe on an Island and is too high in tech, same with Frederick who'd have Panzers against my tanks. Cities are at size 15-25 now, don't know if waiting will get me any higher than now.

Any suggestions? Mari?

 

[MarigoldRan]

1300? Finish it.

EDIT: To get a higher score and to avoid domination, blitz. Capture as many population points as possible before your newly captured cities go out of revolt, bringing you over the Domination limit.

 

[Seraiel]

Ok, finished the game at 1360 AD and ed up big time again, as I got a Domination Victory 1 turn before I could have vassalized 3 Civs at once -.- ^^ Score was 1,15 M and could have been 1,35 M with the 3 additional Vassals, which would have brought me up to 55% of the Land Area Submitted the game and got excluded for some reason I will investigate, as I don't wanna spend another 200 h for nothing. Think 1,5 M would have easily been possible with more time, as I automized most of my cities in 1000 AD as it simply got too much on this low sealvl map, and I think I definately build too much by putting a Library / Bank in almost every City, but Libraries are are so cheap and Banks just so awesome when you already have to run 70% gold as Cooperation Maintenance eats you up. Still far away from the 3 M Wastin Time scored and as said, could have ended the game already at 800 AD with almost the same score, guess Sushi gave about 200 k but that's way less then expected.

Here are the saves, I'm curious for any advice anyone can give me, especially on the new settings for my next round. I think 17 Civs are perfect, as they fasten up research significantly, small islands are perfect too, but I have to get better at conquering / settling them earlier OR even later with better tech and should perhaps have liberated them too, though my tests show, that liberation doesn't bring that much, as the vassals are too weak. Don't know about low sealvl, the more land might be good and bad the at the same time, tropical climate is definately something I have to think about, as the jungle costed me tons of time and there weren't at least enough rice pots to push sushi the way wanted. And, I have to think about playing HC again, a friend of mine just started out with Darius, and he seems better in many ways.

Tia, Seraiel