A Sawmill will take that wood and turn it into planks, used to construct more buildings. If it’s next to some trees, a Woodcutter will chop them down.
If your Lodge is next to a river or lake, a Fisher will… you guessed it, fish. The Lodge has three slots, used to construct huts, if you will, and dedicated to harvesting a specific resource. It’s best placed near some trees or water, because it produces the basic resources required to get your kingdom going. The Lodge, for example, requires three planks and one settler to construct. Some buildings even have multiple purposes. The thing is no building in Settlers 7 is designed to sit there and look pretty. Each is very, very different.Ĭonstruction costs cash, as well as the required raw materials. To win, you need to score a certain number of victory points, gained from walking down one of three different development paths: Military, Science, or Trade. This is your responsibility: the godlike being with a mouse and a scroll wheel. Everything from making sure your citizens have enough food to providing fancy clothes for traders to wear has to be taken care of. In Settlers you build and manage an early Renaissance era kingdom in real-time. In Settlers, war is only one way of achieving victory. In those games, you defeat your opponent by killing them. This is not Starcraft II, or Dawn of War II, or Supreme Commander II. Settlers 7 is a real-time strategy game, but unlike no other.
Actually, it’s probably more complicated now than it’s ever been. Settlers was complicated back on the Amiga, and it’s complicated now on the modern day PC, with its seventh incarnation. Settlers will never enjoy FarmVille’s gargantuan popularity, of course. What would German developer Blue Byte Software have said had they been told then that in 2010 more people than live in Germany would play a game that was, essentially, Settlers, except more basic? Well, they’d probably have said, “Danke schön! We’ll use that idea!”. The pedestrian village sim, which began life aeons ago in 1993, proved a refreshing tonic to the murder and chaos found in most other games. Settlers, as any PC gamer with a penchant for chopping down virtual trees and sheering digital sheep knows, kicked off our love-affair with computerised harvesting. If all-conquering internet phenomenon FarmVille is the natural evolution of anything, it is Settlers.
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