Settlers Of Catan

fo_sheezy_my_neezy · September 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">anyone else play it?</div> This is a shameless plug for this awesome board game I started playing about 2 weeks ago. I haven't played a board game in years mind you, so that this one didn't suck was a bit of a surprise. It's called Settlers of Catan, and basically the original (the only one I've played), is a non-combat, control the resources game. You have a totally random board every time because the hexagonal board peices (they each represent a resource) are randomly placed. Also, there are these little round peices that go on each board peice, and have a number on them. You place settlements and roads, connecting the settlements by roads, upgrading settlements to cities. You have to have certain resources to build (ex, a road cost one brick and one lumber to build). You get resources by having settlements or cities next to a resource with a number, and when that number gets rolled, you get a resource. Needless to say, 4s, 6s, and 8s are popular spots to build to. Settlements are worth 1 point, cities are worth 2 points, and you need 10 total points to win. There's a lot more to the game, and you can read about it everywhere online, and on <a href='http://www.coolgames.com/mfg-cat/soc/0483-00.htm' target='_blank'>their site</a>. I'd suggest you try it out, or learn more about it. I'm addicted........

TychoCelchuuu · September 2003

Played it. Too simplistic; my 8 year old brother plays it with his friends.

fo_sheezy_my_neezy · September 2003

and this 20-year-old plays it with his friends.. was that supposed to imply something?

It's a fun game, just because it's simple doesn't make it any less fun.

eediot · September 2003

"hit me" *hits you* "hehe, okay your turn. hit me." *hits me* "this is an awesome game"

...eh, im sorry, i dont know where im going with this <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

i see a price tag on the page, im not going to stick around <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Jane · September 2003

Settlers is by far my favorite board game. . . mind you I play a lot of board games, if you like this one check out Puerto Rico, that's an awesome game as well. It's the same kind of collecting "resources" kind of thing, but you use the resources that are crops to sell to buy buildings etc. Back to settlers though, I started playing it last year and I found a site to play it online which is nice if you can't find 2-3 other people to play it with, or if you're too lazy to set it up since it's fairly time consuming. I used to play this game online with my friends at all their different colleges last year, but then I found NS. . . but yeah I still love playing settlers, my favorite expansion is Cities and Knights though, it brings in a lot more conflict which is cool. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

<a href='http://settlers.cs.northwestern.edu/' target='_blank'>http://settlers.cs.northwestern.edu/</a> <- this is the site where I played it, it seems to be angry right now, I know it was up and down a lot, but you can see if it works for you, if you get it to work grab me on mirc and I'll game with you sometime.

JHunz · September 2003

Settlers is definitely my favorite boardgame. I play it whenever I can gather enough people together <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Jane: actually, I've found that you get the most conflict added with the six-player expansion <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'> Cities and Knights is great though.

fo_sheezy_my_neezy · September 2003

yeah, it's a little expensive, but worth it. It's a great little game to get away from the computer with, and besides, I heard the AI on those versions was so easy it's ridiculous. Actually, Jane, Crazy_Monkey and I play that with his dad and older brother, that's where I learned from <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> . We haven't gotten any expansions or anything (his bro's only had the game for about 2 weeks now), but we've contemplated buying a whole second set to make the board bigger, and keep it at 4 players but "up" the winning points to 22 or something.

lolfighter · September 2003

Great game, but I stopped playing a few years ago.
The one for the Playstation was kinda bland though.

Jane · September 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (fo sheezy my neezy @ Sep 20 2003, 02:36 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>yeah, it's a little expensive, but worth it. It's a great little game to get away from the computer with, and besides, I heard the AI on those versions was so easy it's ridiculous. Actually, Jane, Crazy_Monkey and I play that with his dad and older brother, that's where I learned from <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> . We haven't gotten any expansions or anything (his bro's only had the game for about 2 weeks now), but we've contemplated buying a whole second set to make the board bigger, and keep it at 4 players but "up" the winning points to 22 or something.</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
When I play with my mom I always use the expansion pack to get a bigger board (I would reccomend getting the 5-6 player expansion, over a second set unless you want to have two copies of the game) I do this because it decreases conflict (and you obvioulsy get better placements too), and that keeps her happy. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> For best gaming (imo) I don't reccomend a bigger board and more points due to the lact of conflict and longness of the game, just buy Cites and Knights, you won't regret it, it's worth every penny. The AI are really stupid, but you can normally get real players to join if you ask in the main channel, if it's working.

Cities and Knigths (when played correctly <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'> ) is vengeful, complicated, and sometimes down right mean, it's just more fun and involved. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Seafarers is a VERY slow starting game so it typically takes much longer, imo it's not as fun. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

For future reference make sure you label the pieces that are in your main base settlers (every hex -> ports too), you'll thank yourself later when you get expansions. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> Just a friendly tip. I put a "M" on my main settlers. Then if you keep the other expansions seperated from each other you won't need to label them, and you should be good to go.

fo_sheezy_my_neezy · September 2003

thanks, I'll keep that in mind Jane

Settlers Of Catan

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