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Contest 105: Confucius-A LifeWelcome to Contest 105: Confucius - A Life. You must have the
latest patch in order to play this contest. The link to the patch is on
our rules page. Use the links below to download the starting positions: Confucius
- A Life Easy After downloading, simply unzip the file and ions. When prompted, choose to extract the files to the directory in which Emperor.exe is located (by default C:\Sierra\EmperorROTMK\). Competitors are reminded that the normal CBC General
Rules apply to this contest. Confucius-A Life is an epic 8-episode campaign for Emperor, it was inspired by an article on Heavengames by GillB, you can find it here: http://emperor.heavengames.com/history/linkedarticles/confucius My thanks to GillB and Jayhawk for kind permission to reproduce and paraphrase their article, you will see that I have used a bit of artistic license to fit the scenario to the life of Confucius. In Confucius-A Life, each episode is a contest in it own right that will last for a month, at the end of which you can send in your entry, saved just before the end-of-episode screen comes up. There are no in-game time limits, each episode will go to the next when all of the completion criteria have been met, and you may restart each month at any point in your gameplay. Your entries will be judged independently each month. There are two difficulty levels, easy and hard, please make sure that
you start the campaign in the correct difficulty. StoryEpisode 6. A Life Re-affirmed Completion Criteria: 100 in Impressive Compound Tie Breaker: For episode 6 the tiebreaker is the number of people in Impressive Compounds at the time of the completion date of the Tumulus, your entry should be saved in the month of completion with the completion criteria reached. If there is still a tie then the final score as shown in the victory screen will be used. Confucius said, "Without steadfastness, the gentleman would not command respect and his learning would not be sound. Advocating loyalty and trustworthiness, he has no friend who is not his equal. He would not hesitate to correct his faults." RulesThe first 4 episodes have a target winning criteria of the highest yearly profit, whilst establishing a new city. A lower profit threshold is set as a completion criteria, this is the lowest yearly profit that you need to attain to meet the Emperors high expectations (it is even higher for the experts playing at hard difficulty). It is important that you establish stable economic cities at this stage, you will be returning to them in later episodes. The last 4 episodes are speed contests that require you to build monuments to Confucius in the fastest time, but remember that all completion criteria have to be completed when you send in your entry. Episode 1. New Life Completion Criteria: Population 2000 Winning Criteria: Highest yearly profit. Confucius said, "In the home, the young should behave with filial
piety and out in the world, with brotherly love. They should be prudent
and trustworthy. They should love all people and be close to the benevolent.
Having so done, their remaining strength should be used to learn literature." Episode 2. School Life Completion Criteria: 1500 in Luxurious Apartment Confucius said, "Clever talk and a pretentious manner are seldom
compatible with the benevolent." Episode 3. Hard Life Completion Criteria: 150 in Impressive Compound Confucius said,"When substance overshadows refinement, there is
the coarse man. When refinement overshadows substance, there is the court
historian. When substance equates with refinement, there is the gentleman." Episode 4. High Life Completion Criteria: 150 in Impressive Compound Winning Criteria: Highest yearly profit Confucius said, "All is lost! I have yet to meet the man who can
see his own faults and censure himself!" Episode 5. Low Life Completion Criteria: Build a Great Temple Confucius said, "To gain knowledge quietly, to learn without losing
interest, to instruct others relentlessly, indeed, what difficulty for
me?" Episode 6. A Life Re-affirmed Completion Criteria: 100 in Impressive Compound Confucius said, "Without steadfastness, the gentleman would not
command respect and his learning would not be sound. Advocating loyalty
and trustworthiness, he has no friend who is not his equal. He would not
hesitate to correct his faults." Episode 7. Alma Mata Completion Criteria: 100 in Impressive Compound Confucius said, "It is possible to speak of lofty subjects with
men who are above the average. It is not possible to speak of lofty subjects
with men who are below average. Episode 8. An End to a Life Completion Criteria: Winning Criteria: Fastest time to complete a Splendid Temple and
a Grand Pagoda. Confucius said, "At fifteen, I aspired to learning. Designer's NotesThis is not a military contest, but you will be involved in some scuffles with your neighbours from time to time. The contest will be judged each month and a league table generated. Points will be awarded for places in each episode, the winner in each difficulty will get 20 points, the runner-up 15 points, third place 12 points, fourth 10 points and then subtract one point for each place down to thirteenth, at which everyone gets a point for their entry. For the first time there will be a French version of the campaign, my thanks to Otto10 for the translation. You will be able to find the instructions in French on Otto10s site at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/Otto10/ If you send an entry using the French version, please use the upload page on ancient-maps.com in the usual way. The ultimate winner in the easy difficulty category will be crowned
Grand Duke of China. Last, but not least, this has been an epic undertaking that has taken 3 years to complete, I could not have done it without my team of dedicated if masochistic testers, Juliaset, Islonian, Robroy and Slcha, who have put up with my pedantry and sadism without complaint (well nearly aye Gloria) I hope you all enjoy playing it as much as we have in creating it.
This contest, Episode 6, will close at 11PM EST (US), on Sunday, April 15th 2007. Please note the date!!!! This contest has ended. General Rules | Results Copyright © 2000-2010 CityBuildingContests.net.
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