I've just completed this in December 2020 with no loan and "the fall". Truly a horrible challenge (in a good way)!

https://imgur.com/gallery/aCVc75X

Congrats to Shugo for being first to finish the challenge in year 2015 (took a loan, so he's the Best of the Shamed and Shaven monks) Very efficient and min-max train master.

@storpappa We have made 3 new challenges, Sputnik (just become self sufficient and create the Palace of Soviet, has a large mod list), Potemkin (less mods, the best challenge we've made so far. No customs, all ships, 10 cities with 5k workers per (no children), and now Rasputin (all vanilla, scarce resource map, challenging middle game and the hardest of the three to get right). None of us have finished this challenge yet, so can't say much more yet. These were derived from HMC base rules but are much more restrictive and hard (less mods permitted).

@Storpappa if you have played the HMC then you can quite clearly see the difference

Another version on the Hard Mode Challenge that Ryan and others put together last year, or the same?

You have to achieve the exports over the whole game. To make it more interesting you can play with the optional rule that all the exports after 1991 26th of December have to go to Western side.

Question: the target is to export to the Soviet Side ? Volume of exports must be achieved in one year or it is the accumulation of all years ?

Newest challenge (all vanilla) crazy exports for cosmonauts!