Contest 61: Pondlife, A Zeus Economics Contest
Welcome to the contest pages for Contest 61: Pondlife. This is a Zeus
contest, and may be played with Zeus V1.1 or Poseidon V2.1. Use the links
below to download the starting positions:
Pondlife
(Titan Difficulty)
Pondlife (Mortal
Difficulty)
files are in a zip format
After downloading, players should run the winzip. When prompted, choose
to extract the archive to the directory in which Zeus.exe is located (by
default C:\Impressions Games\Zeus\save\).
Please make sure you play the game from the start at the correct level
of difficulty. Select Options, Difficulty and check it. If necessary adjust
the difficulty, select new game and reselect the City Adonis saved game.
Now you can play.
Story
"The news is bad my Lord, the Island of the West Wind is besieged
by a ferocious dragon and the riches there are out of reach, how shall
we cope with such a beast?"
"Vast wealth is needed as soon as possible to pay off our debts,
the beast must be killed and only you have the wherewithall to achieve
such a feat.
Rules
Completion Criteria:
Winning Criteria:1.The highest yearly profit as shown in the goals window.
2. Highest housing levels. (common and elite housing will be considered
separately)
The second winning criteria will only be considered in the case of a
tie in the yearly income.
Designer's Notes
The yearly profit goal is set at 99,999Dn this is set high to prevent
the victory screen from coming up, if anyone reaches that goal then you
have super human abilities and are banned from the contest:)
For Easy map players the contest must be saved on Jan 10AD
For Hard map players the contest must be saved on Jan 8AD
The price for cheese will increase each December to remind you to save
the map each year, cheese plays no other part in this contest
This map has Created by Stringbags and tested by Islonian
and Lady Mags, my thanks for their help.
This contest will close at 11PM EST (US), on Sunday, April 25th. Please
note the date!!!!
This contest has ended.
Good luck and have fun!
|