Elhazzared wrote:I don't really care about points
Point taken, but I pointedly point out that you also may have missed the point of this thread, which is chatting about what range of points you expect from a run on Normal.

itg wrote:My high scores have been consistently on the rise since I started playing. At the moment, all of my top 5 scores are in the 6200-6800 range, and over the last ten games or so, nearly every win has been a new top 5 score.
So your experience is very similar to Coderro's and my own: scoring less than 5000 points on a Normal run is surprisingly low.
Mh, we may actually approximate the number of points you can expect from a normal run with the following considerations:
You get 12.5 points for each beacon visited, and judging from my own maximum of visited beacons (including the hidden sector), 122, I'd say that around 130 visited beacons is probably near the maximum of beacons you can visit and get points for (beacons overrun by the rebel fleet don't give you any points).
So the maximum score from beacons is roughly 12.5 times 130, that is 1625 points.
Each defeated ship yields 25 points, and in theory every visited beacon could be a ship, but normally it is about half the beacons in my experience. Let's settle for a high value and say that 75% of visited beacons may get you a fight, so it would be 130x0.75x25 = 2437.5 points.
The last scoring bit is scrap earned. I never managed to get more than 3000 scrap (2919 maximum for me), but I think you can get more, at least I've seen much higher values from other people, although that might have been runs on Easy, or worse, with mods

. Let's go for a maximum of 3600 scrap, which yields 1.25 points each, that would be 4500 points.
All together, it would be 1625+2437.5+4500 points, which is 8562.5 points (all numbers calculated in my head (and confirmed with a calculator

), by the way), quite a bit over my current maximum of my scores that were not going for Elite Fighters. If we substract 750 points (estimating maximum scrap at 3000 instead of 3600 - how much have you guys got on Normal without mods?), it would still be comfortably in the upper 7000s, at 7812.5 points.
So still something to improve!
