Sponsor: Sullla
Opening Date: Monday, October 8, 2007
Duration: Four Weeks
Map Script: Pangaea
Climate: Rocky
Sea Level: Medium
Resources: Standard
Game Speed: Normal

Difficulty: Monarch
Civilization: France
Leader: De Gaulle
World Size: Standard
Opponents: Six
Victory: Any

Options: No Tribal Villages, No Events
Version: Beyond the Sword v3.13

Scenario: Who's the best at building wonders? We're about to hold a contest to find out.

Rules: You may not declare war on another civilization, or instigate wars between other civs. If asked to join a war, you must decline. For this reason, signing Defensive Pacts is also disallowed. You must make all reasonable attempts to play this game peacefully.

All civilizations have the right to defend themselves. If another civ declares war on you, you are permitted to defend your own territory, and even capture enemy cities. However, at most you are allowed to capture half of their cities, rounded down. For example, if your opponent were to declare war with four cities, you would be permitted to capture two of them; if they were to begin with seven cities, you would be allowed to capture three of them (your choice on which ones).

In other words, the goal of this game is to out-build your opponents, not sit just under the Domination limit building wonders. Please observe the spirit of the scenario by refraining from goading the AIs into declaring war on you.

Scoring: One point will be awarded for each world wonder that your civilization manages to construct. How the wonder is completed doesn't matter (Great Engineers, forest chopping, population and cash rushing are all fair game), but only world wonders that you managed to build, not capture, will count. Please note that national wonders, religious shrines, corporations, and projects (such as the Internet) do NOT count in the scoring. Just to avoid confusion, here is the full list of world wonders:

• Angkor Wat
• Apostolic Palace
• Broadway
• Chichen Itza
• Colossus
• Cristo Redentor
• Eiffel Tower
• Great Library
• Great Lighthouse
• Great Wall
• Hagia Sophia
• Hanging Gardens
• Hollywood
• Kremlin
• Mausoleum of Maussollos
• Notre Dame
• Oracle
• Parthenon
• Pentagon
• Pyramids
• Rock N Roll
• Shwedagon Paya
• Sistine Chapel
• Space Elevator
• Spiral Minaret
• Statue of Liberty
• Statue of Zeus
• Stonehenge
• Taj Mahal
• Temple of Artemis
• Three Gorges Dam
• United Nations
• University of Sankore
• Versailles

Since all wonders count exactly the same in the scoring, you'll have to pick and choose which ones to pursue for optimal results. Obviously players won't be able to get all 34 wonders… or can they?

Note: All stone and marble resources have been removed from this map, to provide a level playing field for all civilizations. Other resources that double wonder production (such as ivory for the Status of Zeus) remain in play, however.

Closing Day: Monday, November 5. Results due by November 6.

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