I am up to my forth game now. This morning I finished the game and submitted my game score of 4.5k, which is a decent score for me.
This evening, I updated to 1.04a62, and loaded up my save game from this morning to try and get a better score. I ended up with alliance victory, and have additional income from tribute. But then the game score came to 37k, which seemed way too high (a bug?) to me. Or is it simply that I shouldn't have used an old save game?
I think there may be a problem. I started a game on 1.04 and finished it after updating. It was only normal difficulty and had been a fairly easy game. The score came out to be over 10,000. Should have been maybe 1/10th that.
Ok, it seems they changed the scoring, and 37k is quite normal. My score for this save game is now 68k, which someone else commented was probably equivalent to around 6k under 1.04.59. The metaverse scores (which still hasn't worked for me) will be very distorted in the coming few days...