Below are the official Pat Coston's / Gilligan's Island / SimCity 2000 Rules: *************** IMPORTANT ********************************** * You can win over $100 in this contest! * Cities are due back by Sunday, October 9, 1994! * The following rules will NOT change! * Good Luck! **************** INTRO ************************************** You're name is Gilligan. You've got an island. Make something of it! ***************** GOALS ************************************* You want: 1. Highest Value 2. Highest Health 3. Highest Education 4. Mitary Base 5. Arcos 6. Connections to your neighbors *********************** SCORING ************************* An equation will be used to calculate a single score. You want to have the highest score! Your score will be calculated by the following equation: Score = Value + Health + Education + (Military points) + (Neighbor points) + (Arco points) - (exceed time limit points) * Value, Health, Education values can be found in your graph window (1 yr, 10 yr, 100 yr) with the "1 yr" button pressed. * Military base points: 50 points --> Missle silo base 40 points --> Army base 30 points --> Navy base 20 points --> Air Force base * Neighbor connection points: 15 points --> highway 10 points --> rail 5 points --> road You can have multiple connections to one neighbor. Example: 5 rail connections to a neighbor will get you 50 points. * points for the first 20 arcos only 10 points --> launch 8 points --> darco 6 points --> forest 4 points --> plymouth * You will lose 5 points for every month your city ages past Dec 2400. That gives you 500 sim-years to complete your city without losing any over-age points. *************************** CHEATS ********************************* No Cheats! 1. NO Phantom water pumps 2. NO Magic Eraser 4. NO Easter eggs 3. NO embezzling money in any way (hex editor, easter egg, SimBank programs, etc) 4. NO Terra-Forming in the Terrain-Editor. You can Terra-Form all you want (raise terrain, lower terrain, level terrain, etc.) BUT you'll have to spend money to do it in City-Editing Mode! 5. NO taking advantage of any bugs in SimCity. 6. NO NO NO. * If you don't know if something is legal or not, E-mail me directly and I'll post a message to everyone in the contest with my answer. * If you never heard of some of these cheats, E-mail me directly and I'll tell you. *************************** ABOUT **************************************** * This contest is free. * Contest will run for for 2 weeks. * Here is the Schedule: Fri, Sep 23, 1994 Starting-Terrain will mailed out; contest Begins Thu, Oct 6, 1994 Last day to request entry into contest Sun, Oct 9, 1994 Completed-Cities are due back; contest Ends Tue, Oct 11, 1994 Results will be E-mailed out Fri, Oct 14, 1994 Awards will be mailed by snail-mail * The starting-terrain you receive will be in City-Building mode. Not Terrain-Editing mode. Terrain-Editing mode is illegal. * The starting year is 1900 * you start with $65,312 * The terrain is one large island * On a scale from 1 (easiest) to 10 (hardest) I'd rate this contest an 7. * I'll be doing the same contest but my entry-city won't count. You can win cash awards if you beat my score (see AWARDS section). * Feel free to let everyone in the contest know how you're doing by posting messages on the: Bulletin Board --> "GAMES BB" (Jump GAMES BB) Topic ----------> "WAR/STRATEGY GAMES" (pick this topic) Subject ---------> "SC2K ISLAND CONTEST!" (search for SC2K) I'll be posting my score daily! I'd like to encourage you to do the same. * You are allowed to turn in more than one city. ***************************** RULES ************************************* * You can turn in as many Entry-Cities as you like * 500 sim-year limit (You can go beyond 500 years but you'll lose 5 points for every month your city ages beyond Dec 2400) * You must use the official contest terrain * You can terra-form all you want as long as you spend money to do it. It is illegal to use the Terrain-Editor. * Play with disasters on or off. It's your choice. You are free to use disasters if you feel like it. * No Cheats (see CHEATS section) ***************************** AWARDS ************************************** * PRIMARY AWARDS: - 1st place --> $30 (highest score) - 2nd place --> $20 (2nd highest score) - 3rd place --> $10 (3rd highest score) * SECONDARY AWARDS: Regardless of how high your score is, these are the secondary awards for excellence in one or more particular area. - Highest Value ------> $10 - Highest Health ------> $10 - Highest Education ---> $10 * EXTRA AWARDS: I will be in the contest too. If your entry-city's score beats mine, you get 5 cents for every point you beat my score by. I will be starting the same day you do so I'm not cheating. * You can turn in as many entry cities as you like. This is so you can win Secondary awards as well a Primary award. * ONLY ONE (1) Primary award per person. If you have the 1st and 2nd highest scores, only your highest score will count. Your 2nd city will count towards Secondary awards though and you will get "Honorable Mention." * You can win multiple Secondary Awards. * Everyone who beats my score will get Extra Award money * The ultimate win would be: have the highest score (1st place) AND the highest value, health and education as well as beating my score! * If you win an award, you will need to give me your addresses to get your cash award. * The final scores will be E-mailed to everyone in the contest. * Ties will be broken by running the tied cities 1 sim-year, then re-calculating the scores until the tie is broken. If after 20 sim-years, the cities are still tied, the award will be divided enenly among the authors of the tied cities. * NOTE: Cash Awards will only be given if there are atleast 7 unique people who turn in 7 unique cities. Otherwise there will be no cash awards but you will still receive copies of the entry cities if you want them. ***************************** HINTS & TIPS ******************************* * Good values for Health, Education and Value would be anything above 100. * The island is in a fresh water ocean. * Save backup versions. You may want to go back to an older version! * You can turn in as many cities as you desire. You may want to try for just highest health, and/or just highest education and/or just highest value and/or highest score. ***************** HOW TO SEND YOUR FINISHED CITIES *************** * Use MailManager for DOS or E-mail Connections for windows for sending and receiving SC2000 files * Save your citys in Pause mode before turning them in to preserve value, health and education values in the graph window. * Along with your finished cities, please E-mail me a description of your city which includes stuff like: your strategy, difficulties you had, interesting techniques/ideas/secrets/etc, what you would do differntly if you were to start over, and whatever else you feel like throwing into it. Everyone who turns in a finished city will receive a copy of your text. One of the main reasons for having contests is to learn about cool stuff, so if you think you have something to teach us, then do so! * SimCity 2000 - Note that you can use the Mac version but you must know how to "import from" and "export to" DOS. The starting terrain will be in the DOS format. All entries must be in the DOS format. If you don't know how to do this, write me and I'll send you instructions. * PKZIP - Please compress your city files with PKZIP before sending them. If you don't have PKZIP, you can download it from Prodigys Ziffnet. If you must, I will accept regular *.SC2 files un-compressed. * After the contest is over, everyone will be asked if they want copies of the cities. If you reply "yes", I'll E-mail you a ZIP file containing all of the entry-cities along with their description files.