Emperor Heaven

Emperor: The Bureaucratic Examination

An Emperor Heaven 'Olympics' Competition

Be Prepared

Welcome to the competition page for the Be Prepared. To play this competition game you must have the Emperor Patch 1.0.1.0 installed. 

Click on the link below to download the game starting position:

Be Prepared

This download is a zipped .pak file. Unzip the download and place the .pak file in the Emperor Campaigns folder; typically C:\SIERRA\EmperorRotMK\Campaigns. You should then find Be Prepared listed when you open the in-game Custom Campaigns. 

Before you start to play ensure that you have selected the correct difficulty; that is, the difficulty at which you registered to play the Emperor: The Bureaucratic Examination competition games. The in-game engine will automatically apply a 20% reduction to the initial funds for the very hard game, so the appropriate initial funds for each difficulty are:

Normal: 8000 strings of cash
Very Hard: 6400 strings of cash

Now you can play.

This game was designed by Granite Q. 
The beta testers were VitruviusAIA and GillB. 

Mission briefing

The examiner, Yang Ya Bo, strode into the room in a confident manner. He carefully placed his papers in a neat pile on his desk, and looked out on the roomful of anxious candidates. 

"Welcome to the first test of the Bureaucratic Examination, Young Hopefuls. It will take you back to the time when the fierce Korean warriors raided our borders. The Emperor had two choices; to fight them or to make peace with them.

You will be responsible for making sure that whatever route His Celestial Majesty decides to follow, there will be enough of our sharpest weapons to wage war, and enough of our finest bronze to sue for peace".

Rules

Please note that the Emperor: The Bureaucratic Examination Competition Rules apply to this competition game.

If you have a query about this game which you feel (if posted on the Emperor Heaven forum) may breach Rule 7 (the 'No Game Discussion' rule), you should email your question to  graniteq@heavengames.com

This competition closes at 12 midnight, Sunday 16^th May 2004, US Eastern Time,  ET(US) - that's Heaven Games default forum time, should you wish to calculate the closing time in your own time zone. 

Special Rule

Although elite housing can be built in this game, this is required for assessment purposes; you must NOT build any elite housing at all. 


Competition Completion Criteria

This is a speed competition. You should save your game as soon as you have achieved the Competition Completion Criteria.

The minimum criteria that your saved game competition entry should meet are:

1) City is not in debt
2) City is not a vassal.
3) Minimum 1000 people in Ornate Apartments
       (as shown in the goals status column on the right of the mission        goals page)
4)The following goods in store in warehouses:
       (all as shown on the Commerce Advisor's panel)
       Minimum of 20 weapons
       Minimum of 20 bronzeware
       Minimum of 2 bales of hemp
       Minimum of 2 ceramics

Please note that the in-game Mission Goals page shows... 
1) a requirement of 2 people in Ornate Apartments, and
2) a requirement for 1 person in a Modest Siheyuan 

Both of these are required for assessment purposes only, you should ignore both these in-game requirements and comply with the list of completion criteria set out above.

Winning Criteria

The winning criteria are:
1) The fastest time to achieve all the completion criteria.
2) The largest number of people in Ornate Apartments at the time of your saved game entry (as shown on the right of the Mission Goals page).

The second criterion will only be used to separate entries which are tied in criterion 1.

How to Enter

You should save your competition entry files using the following naming convention:
beprepared-YourName-Difficulty.sav 

ZIP the saved game using a program like Winzip (download it for free) or the  compression utility in Windows XP. Make sure the name of the zipped file follows the same naming convention.

Go to the Emperor Downloads Page and submit your entries.
To upload your entry, select Submit. Now select the E:BE Submissions and go through the regular procedures. Please fill in the title of the map (i.e. the game specific title which includes your name). The Short Description and File Description can be filled with EBE, or the File Description can be used to add information about your entry. Next select the proper Contest (name) and Difficulty tags.
Once you have filled in everything you can press the Submit button.

Please Note: Only the Staff involved in the E:BE can view the uploaded files. Everyone else will get an error trying to view the E:BE Submissions list.

Designers' Advice

The start date for this game is February 1000 CE. This is a speed competition. The saved game for your competition entry should be made as soon as you have achieved all the Competition Completion Criteria.

Remember to make a manual save in January of every year. You will get a message informing you of an increase in the price of carved jade (which plays no part in the game) as a reminder to make these saves.

Please be careful to comply with the completion criteria as set out on this page, and ignore the in-game mission goals, both of which are present only for assessment purposes.

Please note the special rule that you must not build any elite housing at all in this game.

Have fun!!
Granite Q

To participate in these competition games you must have the Emperor Update 1.0.1.0 patch installed.
You can download it from here

Links to other Emperor: Bureaucratic Examination pages:

General Overview

Competition Rules

Game Features

Events & Scoring

Scoreboard - Normal Difficulty

Scoreboard - Very Hard Difficulty