10 City Spaceship Challenge

Spoonwood

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As an extra challenge for anyone seeking a Hall of Fame entry, I propose that you attempt to only build 10 cities for your game. You may conquer more cities. You may also not conquer any more cities. And launch the spaceship and then submit an entry. There do exist tables that I believe someone might be able to chart on which has 10 entries such as Huge Chieftain, Huge Warlord, and Huge Regent. All other Huge spaceship map tables have less than 10 entries. It might be possible to finish more quickly in terms of the number of turns than dutchfire's entry with this extra challenge also.

Level 2 - For those wanting an extra challenge in addition to this, each spaceship part must have a unique city corresponding to it. In other words, you may not have one city build two or more of the spaceship parts. To make further clear what I mean, I would request that if the ten cities you build are Ur, Sumer, Lagash, Kish, Umma, Bad-tibira, Agade, Erech, Isin, and Akshak, you relabel each city by the spaceship part that it built, such as Ur - SS Engine.

Level 3 - Each spaceship part cannot get made in one of the ten cities you found. Each spaceship part has to get made in some conquered city.

Level 4 - Prebuilding is disallowed. You have to use shields for each spaceship part only after your civilization learns the technology.

Level A - Though less form fitting perhaps, one of the cities has to build every single spaceship part. This may be in one of the original 10 cities you founded.

If you attempt this, but it would not chart, it may be interesting to other people than me and you could post about it in the stories and tales section.
 
I had a 5cc spaceship game on the tables for a while, played as the Arabs, I launched in 1999 I think. Low level, probably a standard map.
I've a done a couple of the things you suggest; I've built each part in different cities (even all finishing on the same turn), and done all in the same city. Not sure if any of those were HoF games.
 
I normally update every time there's 10 games ready to publish, but if there's interest in this challenge, I'm open to changing the update schedule to give it a hard deadline.

If there's more interest in making it a rolling challenge, I'm also cool keeping my hands off Spoonwood's idea.
 
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