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This game is hard. It's settlers 2 but with many many more ways to mess yourself up. Sadly the community is mostly german, otherwise I'd be an active participan
by rswskg 5y ago
This game is hard. It's settlers 2 but with many many more ways to mess yourself up. Sadly the community is mostly german, otherwise I'd be an active participant. It's a great game and a great advert for open source gaming.
- ducktective 5y agoYou mean the development language is German?
- movedx 5y agoLOL! Sorry - I just picked a German programming language. Damn. I think they meant the community is mostly German. Germans tend to have very good English skills, but if most of the people around you in the (game's) community are native German speakers why speak English and struggle along? That's probably what they meant.
- scns 5y agoThis. Text in the community forums.
- scbrg 5y ago> Germans tend to have very good English skills, but if most of the people around you in the (game's) community are native German speakers why speak English and struggle along? Because most is not the same as all. Unfortunately, this is sort of a self fulfilling prophecy, as rswskg's original comment indicates. The fact that the community is German speaking means that non German speakers won't join (effectively restricting the pool of potential contributors by ~99%), and thus the German speakers won't have any reason to not speak German.
- FeepingCreature 5y agoWell, the same applies to English.
- rswskg 5y agoThat is what I meant. There are great youtube communities, but it's mostly german.
- npteljes 5y agoThe original Settlers developer studio is also in Germany. Now it makes sense how my version was called Siedlers II.
- kzrdude 5y agoAnd the original settlers board game - Catan - is of course also German.
- morsch 5y agoThe board game came out after the first computer game. The two are not related.
- kzrdude 5y agoOh.. i didn't know! Maybe the relation is still there, inverted?
- morsch 5y agoAccording to Wikipedia, Klaus Teuber started designing the board game years before the computer game was released, so it's probably not a major source of inspiration. He did change the name (adding "of Catan") so people wouldn't mistake one for the other.
- Delk 5y agoDie Siedler (the plural is the same as the singular), but yeah.
- Barrin92 5y agohad to laugh when I saw that it's mostly German. Anno, Settlers, Patricians, we seem to love our simulation games.
- safog 5y agooo those are my favorite types of games as well.. along with things like Frostpunk, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Ceasar, EU4, CK3 etc. I've never heard of Settlers before, any other games of a similar mould?
- onli 5y agoKnights & Merchants is the only game I know that is a bit similar. Settlers always felt pretty unique.
- methyl 5y agoAnd, interestingly, it’s also from Germany. Check out kamremake.com for a rewrite which runs much better than the original.
- botch_san 5y agoI can recommend the cultures games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultures_(video_game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultures_(video_game))
- rswskg 5y agoJust try the settlers. It's lovely, really fun and surprisingly well made for such an old game. I remember first playing it on a 486!
- slim 5y agoLearn german :) it's not that difficult, it's really fun and imho very cool. I learned english by playing betrayal at krondor with a dictionnary for only help (to be honest I was much younger and had plenty of time)