Thanks! You didn't exactly make it easy for me, so I appreciate that.
I have yet to unearth any milking opportunities in the game worth mentioning. There's some minor milking to be done against the Stage F boss' final form, as well the final boss & TLB, but the rewards are negligible. I suppose the beginning of Stage B counts as a milking spot? Never bothered figuring out whether you get more from tank milking, or taking out the mid-bosses.... I just assumed it's more or less equal, and took out the mid-bosses in 99% of my runs.
I'm wondering if autofire increases the points you get from chip damage? That's the only theory I have left at this point.... either that or it's the 2P tank lol
Kino - 12,754,530 - ALL
Was shooting for 13M, but with my current strategies, that would still involve at least a 90% success rate with the 50K bonuses. As I've got some unfinished business with a couple other Saturn shooters, this'll have to do for the time being. I'll return when I've had enough of non-luck-based scoring challenges.
EDIT: New thread
here. Thanks again, Kaiser!