Score Weighting text file

A facility-less colony is not presently contributing to your empire at all, except perhaps as a defensive liability. It may do so in the future, which will increase your score because then it will have facilities! If it has no units on it either (units on planet also increase score), it is likely to quickly belong to someone else.

Tonnage is a very misleading number, although perhaps not as much so as number of ships. "Pwnage", however, isn't quite a category that can be estimated anywhere, and so you will not get much score for it even if your fleet of one 475 kt frigate utterly beats the pants off of the combined fleet of dozens of more advanced and much larger ships at the same time. My primitive unarmed scout frigates are routinely able to defeat more advanced dreads and battleships packing L51 guns in single combat through the simple expedient of ramming them, while an ARMED frigate can mow through countless numbers of enemies through the expedient of superior range combined with superior speed thanks to my racial ability of psychotic driving. Superior Range + Superior Speed = autowin. It worked for Mongolians and it can work for you.