How Voctory points are calculated ?

[cetti]

Hi at all,
i'm new to this forum but i'm an old civilization player (i started playing civilization I on my Amiga 1200, i had the AGA version... the one with animations on coast tiles !!!).

Now i'm playing colonization and i wonder if there is a guide that explain how the victory points are calculated in this game.
How about every citizen ? How about an earlier DoI ? How about more soldier than citizen ? and so on...

Thanks !

 

[cetti]

OPPPPSssss sorry for the mistake in the thread title

 

[dalgo]

How about every citizen ? How about an earlier DoI ? How about more soldier than citizen ? and so on...

I wish that were the case but unfortunately it is not. Your final score is based solely on two factors, the amount of land you control and the number of Founding Fathers in Congress. If you win the game using a strategy that does not maximise those two you are penalised for it, making your game score virtually meaningless.

In the original game there were many more factors involved - Number of Citizens, Number of Founding Fathers, Final Gold amount, Rebel Sentiment at Independence, Early Victory bonus, Liberty Bells produced after Independence and the number of Indian Villages destroyed (that was a negative). Then there was a multiplier for achieving Independence and another for the difficulty level. I have no idea why this comprehensive approach was dropped this time around.

 

[cetti]

Are you really sure ???
So if you win the game in 1715 or in 1799, with the same founding fathers and the same land, the final score is the same ?

 

[dalgo]

Apparantly so. The manual doesn't mention the score but the readme file says:
'Population no longer affects score – just Land and Founding Fathers'.