I think they were just saying that when talking about a decrease in score, it would make more sense to refer to it in percent change.
i.e. "Rose is at 0.299 of its former self just barely less than a third of its former self. Grumpy is 0.28 of its former score, just at just over a fourth of its former score. The Church Of Spaceology is at 0.185 of its former former, less than a fifth of their former score." could be "Rose is currently at 29.9% of the nation score it was prior to the war while CoS is at a poultry 18.5%, less than one fifth of their antebellum standings" would read better~~~