Information regarding map, registration, savegame download, jury and evaluation
Here are this year's game details:
- Starting town: Lübeck
- Date: June 21st, 1330
- Total population: 42,433 inhabitants
- Your character: Bruno Warendorp, inexperienced shopkeeper
- Seed capital: 30,000
- Ships: Snaikka "Nordlicht" ("Northern Lights"), Crayer "La Perla"
- Map: modified version of the default map with 22 towns; Groningen and Scarborough are missing
- Distribution of goods: > see Excel spreadsheet <
New: English version!
Your goals:
- Expand to a total number of six trading offices. The first one of these is already set in Luebeck. One of the five more ones to be founded shall be in an inland town and another one in a trading station.
- Found and establish two Hanseatic settlements with at least 5,000 inhabitants (without beggars) each. This will result in a total of eight tradings offices.
- The rank of the Alderman at the time your game ends.
Difference between pirates and white doves:
Pirates are free to attack towns, plunder their town coffers, capture other traders' ships, hire tavern pirates or do illegal missions from the side room, which is not allowed for the white doves. Generally speaking, white doves are not allowed to do anything that could potentially result in an indictment against them, no matter whether they are eventually caught or not.
Pirates and white doves will be ranked separatedly.
The starting save:
... can be downloadad from here:
as >> ZIP file << or as >> PAT file << and >> PST file <<
Copy the two files into the subfolder "Ein", which you will find in the "Save" directory of your main Patrician 3 folder.
When will your savegame count as official?
The savegame is official as soon as it has been examined by the jury and the relevant values have been inserted into the evaluation. A member of the jury will also review your savegame with a short commentary.
Again, you will be able to submit your savegame to the jury using the board's file attachment function (preferrably as ZIP or RAR file, but you can also submit in the original formats of PAT and PST). For doing so, we have created the dedicated "Briefkasten" subforum with access rights for all contest participants. More detailed information on how to use this function and on how to become a participant can be obtained here.
The approved savegame will be offered for download by all board members at the same location.
The rules:
GOOD NEWS: The Lubeck Tournament shall be extended for another three months:
Duration of the contest: January 1st, 2009, to March 31st, 2010, at 22:59 UTC.
There will be one single starting save for all the participants. This implies that everyone will use the same character in the game. We most politely ask all the participating Alderwomen for their understanding. Thank you.
Cheats like money cheats, using hex editors or the hot-seat mode are forbidden!
The following is generally prohibited in the tournament:
Operation of automatic trading routes which are, according to their purchase and sales prices, found suspicious of being an arbitrage route
Auctions of businesses or ships
"Demolition trick" as well as all the other building exploits ("hemp bug", fast construction trick etc.)
"Beer trick"
Levon's and Mighty's Gold Trick
Earning ships from tavern missions (escort, patrol, "revenge my brother")
Feeding the poor, dismissing sailors and giving loans with the intention of impounding ships are allowed.
The winner:
The winner is whose savegame meets all the conditions first (game historiography counts). Should we have two submissions with the same date, the higher total population in the Hanseatic League will decide.
Registration:
There is no need for a registration. However, in order to be able to put your savegames into the postbox, you will want to join the "Contest-Teilnehmer 2009" group. See > Wie werde ich Contest-Teilnehmer? <.
Your submitted savegame will only be visible for the jury (and the board administration). As soon as a member of the jury has downloaded and reviewed your savegame, your posting will be activated. Thereafter, it will appear publicly in the thread and can be downloaded by the community.
The jury:
Charlotte, Wasa, x9jaan
As every year, we would like to thank all those who have helped making this contest reality by their continuous efforts!
Bruno Warendorp is a historic character: born around 1255, died June 29th, 1341. He was Lord Mayor of Lübeck from 1301 till his death, sightly 40 years.