So the fortress would be geared to produce the greatest amount of cheese... This would be an interesting multi-fort challenge as well, to see which Player could produce and store the greatest amount of cheese each year of play. If each Player chose a different civ, nobody would be able to "steal" cheesemakers from the last one to play, and if each Player saved their fort and posted that save before retiring at the end of their year, then the total cheese amount would be able to be independently verified by anyone who chose to download that save (keeping honest people honest).
Truthfully, it would be interesting to have three contests going: one for sheer total mass of stored cheese a second for the variety of different cheeses in storage and a third for "most expensive barrel of cheese". (Gem encrusted adamantium barrels of Masterwork cheeses... now
To make the challenge even more interesting, there could be "quests" set up by each Player who isn't taking a turn for adventurer-mode shenanegans between each turn. Have the adventurer turns last 1 RL day and 1 in-game day to limit the amount of total carnage or destruction capable, and when that year's quests are finished, have the next Player take their one-year turn (1 week in RL, or until the following weekend, whichever is soonest.)
5 playable civs = 5 Players
Start-up Fortresses:
(At any point after they've played a year-long fortress turn, a Player can choose to post an adventurer's Quest and reward for their civ's Fortress, which will be available to be chosen by adventure-mode Players during the "Quest" turns.)
Week #1:
Throw-away embark: 1x1 embark that is immediately retired (starts 2 week "timer" between retired fortresses, posted on Sunday)
Fortress 1: Year 2, day 14 to Year 3 (due on Friday)
Greatest amount of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Greatest variety of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Most expensive barrel of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Week #2:
Fortress 2: Year 3, day 14 to Year 4 (due on Friday)
Greatest amount of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Greatest variety of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Most expensive barrel of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Week #3:
Fortress 3: Year 4, day 14 to Year 5 (due on Friday)
Greatest amount of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Greatest variety of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Most expensive barrel of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Week #4:
Fortress 4: Year 5, day 14 to Year 6 (due on Friday)
Greatest amount of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Greatest variety of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Most expensive barrel of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Week #5:
Fortress 5: Year 6, day 14 to Year 7 (due on Friday)
Greatest amount of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Greatest variety of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Most expensive barrel of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Week #6:
Yearly Quests begin:
Fortress 1 Adventurer Quest: Year 7, day 14 (due Monday)
Fortress 2 Adventurer Quest: Year 7, day 15 (due Tuesday)
Fortress 3 Adventurer Quest: Year 7, day 16 (due Wednesday)
Fortress 4 Adventurer Quest: Year 7, day 17 (due Thursday)
Fortress 5 Adventurer Quest: Year 7, day 18 (due Friday)
Week #7:
Fortress 1: Year 7, day 19 to Year 8 (due Friday, week #7)
Greatest amount of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Greatest variety of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Most expensive barrel of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Week#8:
Fortress 2 Adventurer Quest: Year 8, day 14 (due Monday)
Fortress 3 Adventurer Quest: Year 8, day 15 (due Tuesday)
Fortress 4 Adventurer Quest: Year 8, day 16 (due Wednesday)
Fortress 5 Adventurer Quest: Year 8, day 17 (due Thursday)
Fortress 1 Adventurer Quest: Year 8, day 18 (due Friday)
Week #9:
Fortress 2: Year 8, day 19 to Year 9 (due Friday)
Greatest amount of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Greatest variety of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Most expensive barrel of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Week #10:
Fortress 3 Adventurer Quest: Year 9, day 14 (due Monday)
Fortress 4 Adventurer Quest: Year 9, day 15 (due Tuesday)
Fortress 5 Adventurer Quest: Year 9, day 16 (due Wednesday)
Fortress 1 Adventurer Quest: Year 9, day 17 (due Thursday)
Fortress 2 Adventurer Quest: Year 9, day 18 (due Friday)
Week #11:
Fortress 3: Year 9, day 19 to Year 10 (due Friday)
Greatest amount of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Greatest variety of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Most expensive barrel of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Week #12:
Fortress 4 Adventurer Quest: Year 10, day 14 (due Monday)
Fortress 5 Adventurer Quest: Year 10, day 15 (due Tuesday)
Fortress 1 Adventurer Quest: Year 10, day 16 (due Wednesday)
Fortress 2 Adventurer Quest: Year 10, day 17 (due Thursday)
Fortress 3 Adventurer Quest: Year 10, day 18 (due Friday)
Week #13:
Fortress 4: Year 10, day 19 to Year 11 (due Friday)
Greatest amount of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Greatest variety of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Most expensive barrel of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Week #14:
Fortress 5 Adventurer Quest: Year 11, day 14 (due Monday)
Fortress 1 Adventurer Quest: Year 11, day 15 (due Tuesday)
Fortress 2 Adventurer Quest: Year 11, day 16 (due Wednesday)
Fortress 3 Adventurer Quest: Year 11, day 17 (due Thursday)
Fortress 4 Adventurer Quest: Year 11, day 18 (due Friday)
Week #15:
Fortress 5: Year 11, day 19 to Year 12 (due Friday)
Greatest amount of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Greatest variety of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Most expensive barrel of cheese: (Updated on Saturday)
Week #16:
Fortress 1 Adventurer Quest: Year 12, day 14 (due Monday)
Fortress 2 Adventurer Quest: Year 12, day 15 (due Tuesday)
Fortress 3 Adventurer Quest: Year 12, day 16 (due Wednesday)
Fortress 4 Adventurer Quest: Year 12, day 17 (due Thursday)
Fortress 5 Adventurer Quest: Year 12, day 18 (due Friday)
...and the whole process repeats every 15 weeks or so.
Obviously, if a Fortress has posted no Quests, the next person in line for a Fortress turn will have another day or two longer to complete their turn. On the other hand, if a Fortress player doesn't make the deadline for whatever reason, the game host can unretire the starter fortress and dink around with it until the in-game time matches the proper schedule.
Anyway, that's an idea.