Thank you everybody for participating in our first Scenario Challenge. We know this one had a fairly limited scope, but we hope you enjoyed it anyway. And we certainly saw some impressive scores submitted for the leaderboard.

You will receive badges for your placement in the leaderboard at a later date.

Nightmare_Dusk wrote:

And there it is, knew it was possible to beat my score, was just waiting for someone to do it. And yeah, with such easy bots there was only 2 choices for culture, and then transcend the whole game, so gets rid of practically any variety in the runs, would definitely be interested in some challenges not around solely fame. Humankind bots and who can kill all the bots the quickest? Highest total yields in a city at end game? Following a certain culture path challenge? Idk, the pollution one imo was amazing, was really upset on how short it was, only got to do 2 playthroughs of it before event ended

We've got a bunch of ideas for different scenarios and different win conditions in the future. We just wanted to keep it simple for this first one, so we could focus on identifying any (unexpected) issues with the current structure of using saves and the "contest" section for submissions.

Since we want to focus on trying the new format with this first challenge, we have kept the scenario fairly simple, pitting you against 9 Empire-level AI on a standard-sized map on fast speed, with only 150 Turn Limit as the end condition to keep scores comparable. But water is scarce in this world, with a desert spanning across the center of the map, and barely any rivers, lakes, and oceans. How great an empire can you build in these conditions?

Note that this scenario was created to be compatible with the Ibn Battuta Update, which unfortunately means it is not backwards compatible with the Bolivar update. To play this scenario, you will have to use the beta branch or wait for the release of Ibn Battuta.