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Contents:
1. Play Guidance -- English translation of regel.doc (the original German manual)
2. Bill's Comments -- Updated version of translat.doc
3. Trav's Comments -- Current contents of readme.txt
1. PLAY GUIDANCE
I used http://babelfish.altavista.com for the translation. The result is amusing, though not very helpful. If there's interest, I might one day make a decent set of instructions. - Trav
Target of the play is it to collect points of victory - the exact number is indicated for each scenario. In order to receive points of victory, you must use your raw materials for building. See point 4. Playing one. [You want victory points and get them by building things.]
1. PREPARATION
None, the computer takes over that, in order to save you the agony of the selection. They are always players with the blue play figures. When you (blue) are in turn, the computer displays to you - in the box on the right. The computer leads all other players (colours). [You're always Player 1 and blue.]
2. ESTABLISHMENT PHASE
The establishment phase extends over 2 rounds, in which each player builds 2 roads and 2 settlements.
In the 1. Round begins a coincidentally selected player and builds a settlement to the crossing of its selection, as well as a road, which attach to the settlement. Afterwards the next player follows. In the 2. Round begins the player, who was allowed to build as the latter, 2. Settlement + 2. To build road. The other players do not follow now against the clockwise direction (if were too complicated, a problem, the computer regulate the order!).
Their start raw materials receive you, after you built your second settlement.
Note: Forbidden courses are not possible! If you want to undertake thus somewhat, and it does not fold, then you should check only whether your internal message is permitted or possible.
[During each of first two turns, you place a settlement and an adjacent road (or boat).]
3. PLAY FLOW
It begins the coincidentally selected player (also the computer regulates). A play course consists of the following courses of action:
3.1 Raw material yields out cubes (on the field with the cubes click - in the box on the
right down)
3.2 Trade (handle trade)
3.3 building or development card (card) buy (appropriate field click).
Note: If one is not in turn, the computer displays, what the other players (computer players) make.
In order to continue with the play, always on the cubes click. If that cannot be done, there is either a commercial supply, then one must press either on the small switch, in order to exchange, or into the commercial box to click, in order to continue, or one is even in turn.
One terminates the own play course with clicking on "play course terminates". Afterwards the next player follows. [Isn't translation fun? :) You can probably figure the rest out...]
3.1 RAW MATERIALS YIELDS AUSW�RFELN -- LAST WORD UNTRANSLATABLE!
3.1.1 RAW MATERIALS YIELDS
Over to cubes, must click you on the cubes, even if the computer is to. That is, you must also for the computer players cubes (to click).
Each settlement, which one of of the selected land fields borders on (cube number = number on the land field) produces a raw material, which in the possession box (or (covers) card becomes green with the opponents) appears.
3.1.2 THE ROBBER
With gewuerfelten " 7 " all player, whom more or equivalent 8 (2*Spielerzahl, if 4 or more player along-plays) raw materials possess, must half of their raw materials (rounded off) delivers.
Afterwards may the player, who the 7 gewuerfelt the robber (crossed swords) on any land field to set (not on that, on which the robber already), and with one of the adjacent players a raw material steals.
Note! The robber blocks the raw material incomes of this field (thus with the robber important fields, on which one does not border, block).
Alternatively also the pirate can be used. More pieler, which gewuerfelt the " 7 ", it can select whether he shifts either the robber or the pirate. If the player shifts the pirate (on the center of a field), then he may steal 1 raw material from the owner of a neighbouring ship.
So for a long time the pirate a field filled, may be removed on the neighbouring edges neither a ship assigned still another ship.
3.2 TRADE
Thereafter can concern the player (trade to click). There are 3 types:
a) Buy:
Buy meant to receive a certain raw material from a fellow player by raw material exchange. In addition one indicates at the beginning, which raw material one necessarily (raw material click).
Afterwards one receives different exchange supplies of the fellow players (or also none, if e.g. nobody possesses the desired raw material). The number on the small switches indicates from whom the supply is. In order to exchange, you must click easily one of the small switches. If one did not like to assume a supply, somewhere differently in the commercial box to click.
b) Sell:
Sell meant also to exchange with the fellow players. However one offers a certain raw material, which one does not need, in order for it different raw materials to receive here.
c) Maritime Trade:
With the maritime trade one exchanges not with the fellow players, but with " overseas ". The exchange course amounts to basically 4:1 (rather badly), thus one must 4 equal raw materials for another its selection deliver.
If one a port possesses (water fields with anchor symbol) improves the course on 3:1.
If one possesses a special raw material port (with raw material symbol), the course on 2:1 improves.
Note! With a wood port e.g. one receives no wood, but must 2 wood for a raw material of its selection deliver, it is thus ports of exportation!
3.3 BUILDING AND DEVELOPMENT CARDS (CARDS)
Finally one can still build (road, ship, settlement or city click). In addition one needs the respective raw material combination (see beside the appropriate switches).
a) ROADS
A road must be always cultivated at an own road or settlement/city already built. One needs roads, in order to build new settlements (see below).
On each piece of way only one road may be built (one can be blocked thus the opponents, or blocked by these).
If one possesses most the together hanging roads (at least 5), one receives 2 special points for the "longest one trade route" (consider commercial symbol beside the covered (blue) cards).
The "longest trade route" is lost, if a computer player possesses hanging roads more together.
b) SAILS
A ship must to own ship already built or its own settlement/city be always cultivated. One needs ships, in order to cross sea fields. Ships cannot be cultivated at roads. Ships can also shift one - however not a just built. Ships also take in account, if it concerns the " longest trade route ".
c) SETTLEMENT
Settlements cannot be built directly next to each other (spacer rule). A settlement must always border on at least its own road. A settlement is worth one point.
d) CITY
One can remove only settlements already existing to cities. A city is worth 2 points. Above all however a city produces each time 2 raw materials (settlement only 1 raw material).
In order to build a city, first the building project must be clicked (city), afterwards the settlement, which is to be removed to the city.
e) CARD
There are 5 types of cards:
Knight Cards
These permit to shift the player therobber. A out-played knight does not disappear, but is only uncovered. A further advantage is, who has most and at least 3 uncovered knights, receives 2 special points for "largest knight power" (consider knight power symbol beside the uncovered knights).
Monopoly Cards
These permit the player to receive at any point in time all raw materials of the appropriate sort from its fellow players.
Roads Construction Cards
These permit the player to build "in vain" 2 roads or 2 ships.
Invention Cards
These permit to take 2 raw materials of its selection to the player.
Point Cards
Thesebring immediately an additional (for the opponents not visible!) Point and cannot be out-played.
Bought cards are displayed covered (blue background). One, if one out-plays " card " clicks, receives an exact overview of its cards not out-played yet there can one its cards naturally also out-play. Per round you may out-play only 1 card and also only the cards, which bought you in preceding rounds.
4. SPIELENDE -- END OF GAME?
The play ends, if a player has 10 (sufficiently) or more points. Note: different scenarios can require different numbers of victory points to win. The necessary score (normally 10 with special islands also times more or less) is displayed in the possession box (there to be e.g.: Points 5/10, i.e. one has already 5 points and needs 10 to triumph over).
Still times in the overview, points of victory there are
each Settlement 1 point
each City 2 points
each Point Card 1 point
Longest Road 2 points
Largest Army 2 points
At the end obtains one, if one achieves a "Highscore", still another play valuation, which calculates itself as follows:
100 * score / durchschnittl. Score + place us -- no clue what this means
The placing bonus amounts to thereby for the first 3 workstations 3, 2 or 1 time the player number (normally 4).
2. Bill's Comments
These comments were included in the German release of the game (translat.doc). I've fixed them up a bit to make them more readable and current. -Travis (txe@swa.com)
Subject: Re: Settlers of Catan Computer game for download !
From: yobeowulf@aol.com (Yo Beowulf)
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 12:08 PM EDT
Here's info & translations for the Settlers of Catan computer game.
Function Keys
ESC - Quit.
F1 - Help.
F2 - Final results (only available at end of a game)
F3 - The island.
F4 - The island without any markers.
F5 - Cycle through the other player's hands. It does not show the cards,
just card counts (resource and development) and longest road/largest
army awards (if held by that player)
F6 - Scoring chart as a function of time (only available at end of game)
F7 - Production chart as a function of time (only available at end of game)
Clicking on the dice box usually moves things along, except occasionally you have to click on the topmost box (but it's usually obvious... as when another player wants to trade with you.) Have no fear, if you read rec.games.board, you possess the intelligence required to figure out how the computer game works!!! The only problem is if you've never played the game... the read me files include the rules to play the board/computer game, but they're all in German. On the other hand, I recall doing a search on "Settlers of Catan" and I remember one site had the English language rules.
Game buttons -- translations of original German release, not needed now
Hilfe - Help
Strasse - Buy a road
Schiff - Buy a ship
Siedlung - Buy a settlement
Stadt - Buy a city
Karte - Buy a card
Handel - Trade (this opens a new window with the following choices) -->
Kaufen - Buy
Verkaufen - Sell
Seehandel - Port trade (the 4-for-1 resource trades)
Karte Ausspielen - Play a card
Schiff versetzen - Move a ship (once per turn)
Spielzug beenden - End your turn
Messages -- translations of original German release, not needed now
Besitz - Posessions
Ist am Zug - (A color is shown) is playing now.
3. Trav's Comments (readme.txt)
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Settlers of Catan Computer Game
Last updated: 21-FEB-2000
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This is the English version of the Settlers of Catan computer game. It
runs under DOS, Win95, and Win98. It might also run under Win31 and NT,
but I haven't tried those let.
The original version is on the Kulkmann's G@meBox website:
http://members.aol.com/~kulkmann/download.htm
I've taken that version and added a bunch of extra stuff, so you don't
need to feel compelled to download the original. My contributions are
minor, but hopefully helpful:
1) English translations of manual, readme, and scenario names
2) inclusion of all known extra scenarios
3) tips on how to use the game and editor (below)
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SCENARIOS
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+ I've translated the original scenario names from German to English.
Since I don't speak German, this was mostly guess work.
Original Name English Name Comments
------------- ------------ -------------------------------------
siedler.isl settlers.isl Original map/rules [no boats].
bigland.isl bigland.isl Same as original, but bigger island.
neueufer.isl newbank.isl Good intro to SeaFarer rules (boats).
gr_catan.isl gr_catan.isl Good intro to unexplored territory.
keinerz.isl noore.isl You'll have to sail to ore/gold area.
neuewelt.isl newworld.isl LOTS of unexplored territory.
ozeanien.isl ocean.isl Six islands of varying sizes.
wueste.isl wild.isl Lots of land, but much is desert.
4inseln3.isl 4isles3.isl These five scenarios are very similar
4inseln4.isl 4isles4.isl in appearance. They each have four
dievier.isl thefour.isl medium-sized islands, but have
dievier4.isl thefour4.isl different numbers of (computer)
viewisl4.isl 4isles.isl players.
+ I've included all of the bonus scenarios that have been made available
at Kulkmann's G@meBox, as well as some of my own:
Scenario Author Date Comments
------------ --------------- --------- ----------------------
5lakes.isl Randy Schacher 12-OCT-98
barrier.isl Randy Schacher 8-OCT-98
bug.isl Randy Schacher 12-OCT-98
eagle.isl Randy Schacher 13-OCT-98
fantasy.isl Randy Schacher 5-OCT-98
geo.isl Randy Schacher 9-OCT-98
inlet.isl Randy Schacher 7-OCT-98
islands.isl Randy Schacher 9-OCT-98
lagoon.isl Randy Schacher 7-OCT-98
lagoon2.isl Randy Schacher 7-OCT-98
mystery.isl Randy Schacher 11-OCT-98
mystisl.isl Randy Schacher 21-OCT-98
peninsula.isl Randy Schacher 13-OCT-98
ports.isl Randy Schacher 13-OCT-98
river.isl Randy Schacher 15-OCT-98
river2.isl Randy Schacher 15-OCT-98
ron1.isl Ronald Hoekstra 26-MAY-98
ron2.isl Ronald Hoekstra 26-MAY-98
ron3.isl Ronald Hoekstra 26-MAY-98
ron4.isl Ronald Hoekstra 2-JUN-98
ron5.isl Ronald Hoekstra 2-JUN-98
snake.isl Randy Schacher 5-OCT-98
symmetry.isl Randy Schacher 13-OCT-98
trav_333.isl Travis Emmitt 15-JUL-98
trav_mon.isl Travis Emmitt 15-JUL-98 Mystery donut in center.
trav_e.isl Travis Emmitt 17-JUL-98 Work your way to the right...
trav_e2.isl Travis Emmitt 18-JUL-98 Long & challenge, my favorite!
trav_pac.isl Travis Emmitt 29-JUL-98 Pac-Man layout (2nd favorite).
trav_try.isl Travis Emmitt 17-JUL-98 Sail to gold,ports,mystery.
+ Note: Some of the scenarios use the original Settlers of Catan rules
(settlers.isl is the original game). Others add the following features:
* ships
* gold
* unexplored territories
* increased victory point requirements
* different numbers of computer players
* discovery cards (get 2 free resources)
* restricted starting locations (e.g.: limited to a particular island)
+ The editor is only in German. If there's enough interest, I can try to
make an English translation for it.
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GAMPLAY TIPS (UNINTUITIVE TIDBITS)
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+ To play the game, run CATAN.EXE. If you are having video problems,
you can try running START.BAT (don't use it unless you have problems).
+ When you first start the game, click on "Szenario Laden" at the bottom
of the screen. These will bring up a scenario list.
+ Load SETTLERS.ISL for the standard Settlers of Catan game.
+ Click on the dice in the lower right until it is your turn. When you
are asked to trade, left click in the upper right hand square for yes
or right click for no.
+ There's no way to SAVE during the game, and there are no SOUNDS. So,
you don't need to waste time trying to find these features.
+ When you finish the game, you might get your name entered into a high
score list. This is the only time at which you provide your name;
during the actual game you will always be called "Player 1" (blue).
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OTHER DOCUMENTATION
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+ For an English translation of the manual (regel.doc), see manual.doc.
+ To *really* learn how to play Settlers, check out some of the links on
my Settlers of Catan page: http://cyclone.swa.com/~txe/games/catan.htm
+ Here's an English tranlation of the original README.TXT. I used
http://babelfish.altavista.com/ to do the translation:
> Settlers of Catan
> ---------------------
> The program is a MS-DOS program runs under DOS, Windows 3,11 and Windows 95.
>
> Copy contents of the diskette into their own directory of your fixed disk;
> e.g. on "settlers".
>
> Start the program by input of catan.exe thereafter see you the start
> display, on which you select a scenario (click) can.
>
> After termination of a play the program shows a Highscore list, in which
> you can input your name - the computer proves the achieved points. If the
> list is full, then there can be problems in rare cases. Delete then the
> file rekorde.dat completely. The program produces this file again with the
> next play.
>
> If you have problems with your diagram card while the loading of the
> program, start the program over start-asked and try the different
> possibilities out.
>
> To the program also a special wordprocessor belongs, with whom you can
> assemble own scenarios for the computer game.
>
> Start with Editor.exe
>
> Much fun with the "settlers of Catan" on your PC!
Looks like English, but it ain't! :)
