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"The Ultimate Score"

INTRODUCTION

Back in 1996 a person by the name of Ted York, had an idea for a new way of scoring VGAP games.
He was trying to create a scoring system fair for everyone. That considered all variables possible, making the scores something the player could rely on, without a possible doubt of whether a player is 'inflating' their score by building cheap battleships & lots of fighters or not.

Jose-Luis Nunez wrote a program to run that idea and called it "The Ultimate Scores" (USCORE).

USCORE isn't a totally new scoring system. What it does is use scores from four other sources:
Tim's Internal VGA Planets Scores, VGA Scores 2.2, PTScore 1.3b and Tons.

WHAT ARE THE SCORES LIKE?

USCORE reads information from the following files: SCORE.LOG, VGASCORE.BLT, PTSCORE.LOG and TONS.LOG. (These are normally kept by the Host (but could be sent to the players)).

USCORE reads those files and makes the following addition:

TOTAL = SCORE + VGASCORE + TONS + (PTSCORE/100)

This is made for each player and then sorted.
The result is something like this:

	******************* Game_Name ********************

                           08/28/96

                           Turn  34

         Number of active players in this game is: 10
         Lower 50 percent active player scores is: 
 Additional points needed for 1st place to win is: 
 
                Total
 Race           Score Ptscore VGAscore Score   Tons  Pls  SB  CS  FR
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 Holy           36100   12966     9230  5453   8451  132  27  85  43
 Elnath         27388   12588     7180  5111   2509   72  29  88  31
 Funky          13310    4981     4192  2339   1798   47  10  65  19
 Serpent         9269    3110     4323  1636    200   77   6  13  16
 Empire          8897    4076     3114  1515    192   23   8  31  15
 Fascist         5503    2366     1826  1311      0   23   7  22  21
 Lizard          3280    1307     1168   805      0   25   4   7   5
 Robotic         2642    1104      885   653      0   18   3  11   3
 Earthforce      2401     806      987   608      0   24   3   0   8
 Colonial        2002     899      664   439      0   13   2   6   9
 Trog             760       0        0     0    760    0   0   0   0
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 Uscore v1.03                                        454  99 329 171

As far as I can tell, the orginal USCORE (v1.00) was further developed to version v1.03.
It was distributed as Shareware and when registered gave the following features:

• Support of USCORE.CFG file to customize your game scores.
• Possibility to choose any combination of the 4 scoring systems.
• Possibility to multiply each scoring system by a different number, to give more or less importance to each score.
• Victory Conditions support.

I've attempted to contact the author of the program. but failed to get any response, so I could not obtain a registered version. :-(
As I like the concept of USCORE, I've copied idea and modified it to suit NAVGAP usage.