How to win the game?

[matezzo]

Turn 240, I dominate in every stats, like 30k+ military power, 2400 research/turn etc..
I mean i can declare myself victor and save myself from the micro of actually conquering everyone.
-I did some war and neglected diplo, so no diplo victory
-I don't want to conquer a large galaxy, my 15 core worlds is more than enough..
-prestige victory could work, BUT: my points for some reason are low (61 right now).. I did some challenges, but it didn't gave me too much (much less than it was "advertised"). An other strange thing is that for example my tech score is 97, and almost every alien has more than me. While on the tech graph it shows that my tech rate is 10 times bigger than the second best..
The other numbers in this category are also unclear to me.. Military power (in the balance of power stats): even the smallest civs get the same as me (46) Faction power also usually the same number for all of us (146) while clearly I'm the biggest and strongest power by far...

[z|A|bik2]

Hmm, prestige victory has some know hows, but it's hard to say what's wrong with the description alone. You could drop a save file, for us to look at, and provide feedback

[Frogboy]

If you want to link your saved game I will check it out and tell you.

I will say that 90% of the time it turns out the player actually losing not realizing there are 2 more sectors they don’t know about that are dominated by someone else.

Tech score is how many techs they have. Have you been trading techs or been going it alone?

[matezzo]

I made two pics of the situation. Prestige goes up, but quite slowly. Things that I are don't understand for example how can the alien races have about the same number of techs like me, when my research is on an other level. (tech trading is off). I did the challenges except everwar, but only got about 100 prestige. is it connected to the empire size somehow?
I think at this point nothing left in the game to challenge me, I just wonder if I could see the victory screen before restart..



https://imgur.com/a/MVjctqS

[Frogboy]

Yea I can tell just by looking at that that you are about, 67% of the way there. You control 1 of 4 sectors. It's the largest so that matters but you don't dominate it either. You have barely gotten into the other sectors yet.

You'll get there.

You can always retire and start another game.

The way you might want to think about it is imagine if you were dominating one of those other sectors. How would you feel if the AI player (or another human player in MP) suddenly "won" the game because they controlled about half of one sector out of 4?

[matezzo]

Ah, so prestige victory is kinda a soft conquest victory type? You still need to get foothold in all the sectors? While I like big galaxies I think galciv works better on smaller maps with even less abundant planets.
Please consider making conquering other civs a bit harder, right now capturing coreworlds of the AI, taking out shipyards just too fast and easy. A military starbase that truly slows down enemy fleets in a larger area of effect (like -75% speed even), a bit longer siege period maybe.