Contest 67: Yuan Dynasty: An Emperor Economics Contest

Welcome to the contest pages for Contest 67: Yuan Dynasty. This is an Emperor Economics Contest, part of the City Building World Championships. It may be played only with Emperor V1.0.1.0. 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:Use the link below to download the starting positions:

Yuan Dynasty( Easy level)
Yuan Dynasty (Hard level)
files are in an executable format

After downloading, simply run the Winzip program and follow the onscreen instructions. 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.

Please make sure you play the game from the start at the correct level of difficulty. You can select the difficulty from the game loading screen.

Please make sure you play the game from the start at the correct level of difficulty.

Story

Yuan (Mongol) (1279 - 1368)

While time of Mongol rule is called a dynasty, it was in fact a government of occupation. While the Mongols did use existing governmental structures for the duration, the language they used was Mongol, and many of the officials they used were non-Chinese. Mongols, Uighurs from central Asia, some Arabs and even an Italian named Marco Polo all served as officials for the Mongol government. One of the more significant accomplishments of the Mongol tenure was the preservation of China as we know it in that China wasn't turned into pastureland for the Mongolian ponies which not only was common Mongolian practice for territories they'd overrun but had actually been advocated by some of the conquering generals.

The Yuan dynasty also featured the famous Kublai Khan, who, among other things, extended the Grand Canal. While in many ways, the Yuan was a disaster, the reluctance of the Mongols to hire educated Chinese for governmental posts resulted in a remarkable cultural flowering; for example, Beijing Opera was invented during the Yuan. On the other hand, attempts to analyze the failure of the Song in keeping barbarians out China led to the rise and dominance of Neo-Confucianism, a notoriously conservative(if not outright reactionary) brand of Confucianism that had originally developed during the Song.

Rules

All entries must meet the following completion criteria at the time of submission:

• Build Grand Canal
• 60 people or more in lavish siheyuen
• 200 people or more in Luxurious apartment
• The game must be saved on Jan 1290
  

The valid entries will then be separated according to the following winning criteria:

1. Highest yearly profit
2. Population
   

Designer's Notes

An increase in the price of Jade each January is to remind you to save your game, Jade plays no other part in this scenario.

A goal of 9999999 yearly profit is included to monitor your achievement and to prevent the victory screen appearing, if you reach this goal you are super human and should be out preventing disasters and saving people and not wasting your time playing computer games.

Yuan Dynasty was created by Stringbags, and beta 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!

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