Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "bugs"

I ended up downloading the original settlers then found I had a copy of it on my computer. I got a little upset with the online version after seeing some bugs. Yes I did the old forum rant and got the usual response to such things. The fan boys jumped to the defence of their game suggesting that I didn't know how to do the simplest of things. I did answer at first but when I saw that those slamming me weren't reading me as clearly as I thought I had explained the bug I gave up. That led me to play the original game a re-learn those nasty dos commands. In the end though I ended up playing for a few days then turning to the modern online version as it was easier. I have just slowly learned to work around some of the things I see as flawed. One is when a work yard complete making something but can't find the materials to make more the game doesn't register the new product going into the storehouse. For instance I watched my iron smith making swords but when he deliver the goods to the store I still had the same number as before he did so as there was no iron for him to restock his workshop. I spent fifteen minutes watching as I had noticed that my manufacturing was slower than it should. The easy work around is to build up resources by switching on and off the work yards and never let them run out of their base materials. In some ways it is easier to use the dos commands to play the old original game but the online version does have its merits or should I just say it has an addictive qualities. This problem is made worse by the fact that the game continues to run even when you aren't logged into it. Each day I play I have to go through all my yards, mines, farms and wells to rebuild fields that run out as well as wells. Mines collapse if they run out and so you have to send out a geologist to find new deposits. Still it is these things that annoy yet keep us wanting beat it. If we can.