Contest 117: Walking on the Moon

Welcome to the contest pages for Contest 117: Walking on the Moon. This is a Caesar 3 contest, and should only be played with Caesar 3 V1.0.1.0. Use the links below to download the starting positions:

Walking on the Moon (Easy difficulty)
file is in .zip format

Walking on the Moon (Hard difficulty)
file is in .zip format

Macintosh players, for whom the procedure of installing contest files is a little more complicated, can find detailed instructions here. If you have any problems, please ask in the Forum.

Please take note that the CBC rules no longer allow free roads and material changes either. A player may only play in a single difficulty.

The French translation of this contest is here! Thank you cesar20!

Story

OK Governor, I'm going to let you in into a big secret. You always thought Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the Moon? Not so, after the Roman Empire fell into disarray, and the capital moved to Byzantium, many of the scientists moved too, fleeing the barbaric hords that took over Rome. Those scientists had secretly be working on ships that could sail into space! As you probably know all Earth's oceans had well been charted by then, but unfortunately much of that knowledge was lost in the Dark Ages that were to follow. The final frontier was not in the West, where the lost continent of Atlantis was all but submerged, nor in the East, where not only the Sun was rising. The barren icy wasteland of the North and the lush forests of Southern Africa we knew like our own backyard, as a matter of fact it was! The only direction to boldly go where really no man had gone before was up to the stars.

So in AD 666 a small fleet of no more than three ships set course for the moon, the stepping stone to outer space. Unfortunately our companion planet proved to be even more barren than sandy deserts of Northern Africa. There were no resources to be found, everything had to be brought there by space ships from our mother planet. At first the sheer quietness of the place seemed to be the major attraction, reason why we called it Mare Tranquilitatis, don't bring your swimsuit BTW , but even that joke turned out to be just an evil twist of our imagination. The locals, little blue men, didn't take friendly to our space travellers, and in the end proved to be more than just a nuisance. Eventually we had to abandon the whole settlement, and travel home in frustration, hoping we could quickly forget this embarrassing experience.

Indeed we did, and with us the world seemed to have forgotten. Some myths about the men in the moon kept surfacing from time to time, and some people even imagine they can see faces on the moon surface itself! The little blue men sometimes reappear as little green men from Mars, but that must be due to color blindness, everyone knows Martians are purple. As with every myth, when it is passed from generation to generation, the details become obscured, but the essence sticks. Man can walk the moon, seen it, been there! It seems not many people nowadays believe these little blue men from the moon exist, and they think it would be profitable if we could establish colonies out there. Maybe we can indeed, maybe the governors in the old days just didn't have what it takes to bring our bright civilization to this alien land. Can you? You have ten years to show that a hostile environment is just the extra challenge you need to prove successful. My trust is in you, the trust of mankind lies on your shoulders.

Rules

Completion Criteria:
None, a save in any month before the deadline is fine.

Winning Criteria:
Highest Score = Money + 100*Prosperity + 100*Favour

Designer's Notes

• Standard CBC rules apply (no free roads etc.)
  
  

• No gifts to Caesar.
  

• The population goal only blocks victory, it can be ignored.

• Price increases for vegetables and fruit in the last year only serve to remind you the end is near...
  
  

Walking on the Moon was designed by Joshofet and tested by Caesar Clifford. Have fun!

This contest will close at 11PM EST (US), on Sunday, November 11th, 2007. Please note the date!!!!

This contest has ended.

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