How is the Colonization Score calculated?
+1 for every Petty Criminal/Indentured Servant +2 for every Free Colonist +4 for every skilled colonist +5 for every Founding Father in your Continental Congress +1 for every 1000 gold +1 for each point of rebel sentiment (which means max 100) +1 per liberty bell produced after foreign intervention during War of Independence – (minus) difficulty level +1 for each native settlement you destroy 100% bonus if you are the first European Power to declare independence 50% bonus if one European Power declares independence before you 25% bonus if two European Powers become independent ahead of you In addition, if you declare independence before 1780, you get a bonus. The sooner you declare, the better your bonus will be. Hall of Fame ranking : To get the ranking, the Colonization score is modified by a factor based on the difficulty level you play on. So if you get the same score on two different difficulty levels, the ranking would be higher for the game played on the hardest difficulty level
