You can't invite this user because you have blocked him. You can't chat with this user because you have blocked him. You can't chat with this user due to their or your privacy settings. User since Unblock chat User blocked This user's wishlist is not public. View profile View wishlist Start conversation Invite to friends Invite to friends Accept invitation Accept invitation Pending invitation. But if you have a lot of patience, an love for slow gaming systems and can live with the technical glitches, then Settlers 7 is a really sweet lesson in delusions of grandeur.The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom Added by KyleBrennan KyleBrennan Sorry, data for given user is currently unavailable. If you want to dive straight into the action, the strategy genre is usually not your first choice. There's a lot to be found here, even if it often feels like a chore to do so. Which is sad, especially since Settlers 7 is a pretty good game. So in the end, the DRM that is supposed to protect the game from pirates ends up hurting the buying customer. Those are problems Settlers 7 has had from the start and still suffer from, despite updates and patches. The game has also a tendency to freeze, usually when saving or loading. Time and time again you're kicked from the game with the motivation "connection error", despite the fact that you're connected.
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It demands both registration and that you're constantly connected to the Internet. A lot of thank is thanks to the DRM the game comes with. Which leads us to the biggest problem with Settlers 7. There is a prioritization system to solve these things, but it doesn't really seem to work very well. Sometimes they just stand and stare into nothing.
I can appreciate the self-going aspect of the game, but at times it gets frustrating that it's not possible to micro-manage my subjects. Even when the soldiers are hacking each other to death it's hard not to melt a bit on the inside, everything being so teddy bear cute. The whole kingdom is filled with energy and a superorganized chaos. The game is filled with picturesque little details that it feels like opening a treasure chest every time a new building is added to the mix. Green forests, crooked small Terry Pratchett-buildings and hundreds of chubby citizens. There is nothing wrong with the presentation in Settlers 7, that's for sure. Time you spend looking down on your kingdom, peeking down at the ant-farm simulator's different parts.
No matter which path you decide to go down, make sure to pack lunch, because it's going to take time. It doesn't end there, of course - everything in Settlers 7 takes a long time. Which in turn makes building an army incredibly slow.
You city demands a thousand different things to keep itself afloat, which will eat into your stores. If it's not for the fact that you will need resources to even dare to suggest an attack on your enemies. Which sounds easy enough and should go without saying. To get more you will have to expand, which means conquering nearby enemy camps. Usually you start out in a place rather devoid of them.
Resources are needed to keep the gears of kingdom grinding. Mostly because of the way resources are handled. The learning curve is brutally slow and the matches will test your patience. The experiences can be likened by finding a razor in a cone of ice cream. Settlers 7 is incredibly time demanding, which might be a bit of a shock for people expecting otherwise from the inviting and sweet presentation. In the end, the three different play styles blend together. Either way you win by gathering enough Victory Points that you get from certain achievements in whatever path you choose to go down. You choose from three different paths to go down the way of war, trade och science. Here's the building of your kingdom as important, if not more so, as creating a proper army. A cross-breed of classic real time strategy and Sim City. That's never been more true than in the case of The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom. Delusions of grandeur is probably a term that fits the strategy genre.