PlanetsCentral

Well, we need to draw conclusions and raise the finishing bar to 5000-6000 points in the next game. Or just play for up to 60 moves and then vote.

Let's do a totally dubious estimate: if you colonize one planet per turn, and plant a cactus on each, you need ~63 turns (and 63 planets) to get 2000 points (Gauß's sum). You can be quicker by colonizing multiple planets per turn early in the game or by capturing planets with cactuses, or you can be slower by not planting aggressively, or losing planets.

With the same reasoning, for 90 turns, the limit needs to be around 4000; 5000 would give you around 100 turns.

So, raising the limit sounds like a reasonable change to me.

--Stefan