Gameserver shut down due to upgrade
(May 30th, 22.23 GMT)
Blue Byte will shut down the gameserver tomorrow at 10am (Central European Summer Time) for about 7 hours. The big downtime is because of major upgrades for the new World Ranking Lists we have been writing about. The server will be up Monday evening again.
/Janx Spirit
World ranking list information
(May 27th, 18.04 GMT)
Blue Byte announced today that the Settlers 3 World Ranking Lists will be online at the beginning of June. There will be two lists that you can enter:
· Single Player. Where you on your own competes against other players in colonizing one-on-one worlds.
· Teamplay, where you in clans consisting of two to twenty members fights for the number one spot on the list.
If you find this idea bad. Don't you worry, you can still play as before, without having the results show up on the lists. The rankinglists is just a special addon to the onlinegaming.
The lists will be updated directly after a game has been finished. The result will be available on the Settlers 3 official website, and there will be plenty of info about each player. The list will basicly be sorted after the number of points each player has gained, but there will also be several sorting possibilities and statistical analysis functions. Number of wins/lost games will be shown as well.
The way every player will be ranked has been widely discussed, and here is what Blue Byte stated about this:
Points will be allocated on a dynamic system which will take factors into account such as your current ranking, how much experience you have accumulated and whether you have specialised in playing a particular race or even a certain map. Basically, the more difficult it appears for a player or clan to win a particular game, the more points can be earned by winning the game! In this way, the two rankings lists will reflect the abilities of the rankings list players on a fair and realistic basis.
Go to the official site for more info.
/Janx Spirit
New logo and staffmenu
(May 25th, 18.11 GMT)
I added a new logo today that will fit better to the new page we'll hopefully get soon.
I have also added a staffmenu to the left so that you can contact us easier.
/Ghengis^Khan
New poll, and minor updates
(May 23rd, 18.07 GMT)
The latest poll has now ended, and the results is quite surprising (at least to me). They show that about half of the players out there keeps getting messages whenever something happens when playing Settlers 3, something I know many can't stand. This is because they don't know how to change this in the setup, but maybe the poll has made them take a second look on the setupmenu. See the results here. Don't forget to vote in our new poll that also is following the "Basic Setup" theme!
I have also uploaded the last saved game to the site, and now can you get every saved game from the original cd from our saved game section.
Some pictures was missing to our roman walkthrough as well, and I have uploaded these, so now can you get even more help from the Guides section.
/Janx Spirit
About the godmode
(May 21st, 22.37 GMT)
There has during the last couple of days been a lot of talk about a hack that will give you godmode in Settlers 3. This means that you will get unlimited resources, settlers, and whatever you can think of. This is ok as long as it is not possible to use in multiplayer. Here is two pieces of text I snapped up on the message board, all written by the man behind this, Jason:
the god mode for settlers is being tested to see if it will work with all the missions on settlers
now alot of people already mail me but if you have questions also ask those and i'll answer them for you
i dont work for BB or anything im a game hacker and i make codes for games
at the end of the month the gode mode will be release
dont worry the god mode that im making will not work in a multiplayer game but there is other codes coming out that can work in multiplayer
And according to Mark, are there already hacks like this out there, but for the German version only, and I have heard this from other sources as well. It's a shame that people can't survive without cheats.
/Janx Spirit
At last the s2 maps are online
(May 21st, 17.59 GMT)
After some hours have I finally made so you can download s2 maps from here. You can find the maps in the mapsection and we will happily take your maps if you have some, just mail them to maps@etmnet.com.
/Asterix
World of Settlers goes IRC
(May 19th, 01.22 GMT)
A
lot of people have started to be less active in the English chat
on the S3 server since the language and behavior in there has gotten
rather bad. Instead, try out irc.settlers.net, provided to us by
Nutty.
I'm spending a couple of hours in there every day, and
sometimes it's a lot more fun than the lobby (even if you can't
start any games from there). All it needs is a few more people,
so swing on by!! You can either connect with a normal IRC-client
to irc.settlers.net:6667, or use the javachat,
and join the channels #wos and #settlers (and the other channels
as well of course).
We are continuing our merger with S3 Village as well. Our hardworking
coworker Asterix has
moved the Walk throughs for the Romans and Egyptians, so you can
now find them in the Tips/Guides
section. And some minor updates all over the site has been made
in the FAQ, Strategy
and S3-team sections. Check it out!
/Janx Spirit
Just some notes...
(May 17th, 23.14 GMT)
Our affiliate, S3 Castle, has made a new layout for their page. It's well worth a look.
I have received a couple of letters from people that want us to
have the S2 maps back. We are working on that right now. So
please have patience and they will be up sooner than expected. /Roberth
The new poll is up!
(May 16th, 20.56 GMT)
Lil
Red came up with a new idea for the poll. Instead of just throwing
out random questions, will we from now on have "themes" for the polls.
Starting out with the "Basic Setup". So come back every now and
then and vote! We will change questions a little bit more frequently
from now on.
Also, Blue Byte has posted yet another press release about the Amazons.
There is no big change from the old press release though, and we
got more info from Joseph Twu who visited E3 this week, so I won't
post the text here. /Janx Spirit
Technical issues about playing with the Amazons
(May 16th, 12.09 GMT)
More and more info about the Amazons is popping up. A posting on the message board was about if you could play against people who play the amazons, without having the CD yourself. And Dirk Ringe from Blue Byte answered:
When setting up a game the host can decide, whether the amazons
will be enabled or not for this game. When they are enabled
only owners of the Settlers III Plus CD will be able to join.
When not enabled everybody can join the game. So if one player
wants to play the amazons all players of the session must be
owners of the Plus CD.
It sounds like a good solution to the problem (people with the "normal"
cd not having the Amazon graphics and sounds). But we'll just have
to wait and see how this will work out in real life. /Janx
Spirit
More info on the Amazons
(May 15th, 22.58 GMT)
As
I wrote three days ago, after I got some inside info about the Amazons
from BB Jason, I thought we would see even more info about this
new race any day now, since Blue Byte showed it to the world at
E3 that opened this week. And so we did, here is what the friendly
Joseph Twu (Lamebrain/bort)
found out at the event:
· They will use a more balanced diet of stone and wood
than the Romans.
· Instead of a spy, will they have a thief unit It works
just as a spy, besides when he actually steals something
in the enemy territory, he will head straight back to
home. This can cause trouble with enemy troops etc. But Blue
Byte will try to change it so that we can control the thief even
after he has stolen something.
· The big war machine will be a giant magic gong, that
shatters towers and castles with an astounding sound.
· The Amazons will have the basic military troops, but
they are stronger than their opponents. I.e. a fully
promoted Amazon swordswoman, will beat a fully promoted
Roman swordsman, in neutral territory. The level of the units will
be displayed with different hair color
· Apparently they will have Alchemists (with an appropriate
hut as well) that with coal and sulfur can make any item you want!
(Dunno if this is true though).
· The new spells are: Capability to move items anywhere
on the map. Freezing of enemy units. Making troops immune
to bowmen. A "Forest curse" (like the stone curse, but
with trees). And finally the big one: Ability to view
the whole map for 30 seconds!
Also, they will not have warships or similar things. Just
the plain old ships.
Thanks again Joseph for the info! (Which can be read in it's original
state on the S3
Official Forum, single player area). /Janx
Spirit
About
the amazon movie (May
15th, 22.39 GMT)
There
has been a wild discussion among the players and website runners
in the S3 community today. The subject has been the movie on the
new Amazon Race The original file was 30 mb, and after Settlers
Inn compressed it to 3 mb, everyone wanted to download it
(Nutty, who runs Settlers Inn, got 188 hits on the ftp last night.
phew!).
However, Blue Byte found out about all this, and went out with a statement, that in short said that their server had been hacked, and that the movie was for internal use only. Well, how come Mark could download it from the public dir on their ftp then? Well anyway, since Blue Byte got upset and sent out mail to everyone they knew about who had the file on their server, many has removed it, since it's copyrighted and therefor illegal to have, so we can't provide you with this movie. Not a big loss though, since the quality is pretty lousy, and you can't make out anything.
Blue Byte has promised us though, that they will release a better movie on the Amazons sometime in the near future, so hang in there, and you'll get a look at them.
/Janx Spirit
Settlers 3 world ranking lists
(May 12th, 20.54 GMT)
Yup. So now will we soon be able to sort out who's the best. Here is a posting by BB Gawain on the message board:
In house beta testing of the program code for the SETTLERS III
- World Ranking Lists is now underway. The lists should be available
at the beginning of June as an update. It will offer both a
ranking for single players as well as a ranking for clans.
To ensure the fairest possible rankings of the various players,
several factors will be incorporated into the ranking criteria.
Similar to the ELO point system used in chess tournaments, the
experience of the players with a particular map, or a certain
race and also the player's (or clan's) current ranking position
in the World Ranking List will play a role.
Hmm..I just hope I won't hit the bottom of the list.
/Janx Spirit
Inside info about the Amazons!
(May 12th, 20.36 GMT)
I just left a
small chat I had with BB Jason who told me some not yet published
information about the fourth race, also know as the Amazons.
They will use mead for alcohol. And instead of spies will they have
thieves, that can probably walk into someone's territory to take
gold and other useful things. (Nice!) They will also have a magic
spell that can transport groups of them to any location on the board
instantly.
I still do not know how any of this will work, since Jason hurried
away to play a round of S3, but since the E3 event started today
and The Amazons would be shown to the world there, I guess it won't
take long before we can see some more information about those new
little serfs. /Janx Spirit
World of Settlers has reopened!
(May 12th, 20.29 GMT)
Finally,
after a lot of turbulence, is World of Settlers back online. The
merge with Settlers
3 Village is not fully completed, so expect some trouble
on different parts of the site during the next few days. There is
still a lot of patches to be uploaded and things like that, but
we'll try and finish it as soon as possible.
The current staff at World of Settlers is Janx
Spirit, Roberth, Dieter,
Asterix and our all beloved
Lil Red. Ways to contact us
all will be fixed soon as well.
Well, hope you will keep on visiting us in the future, because WoS
has never been any better! /Janx
Spirit
Patch Version 1.34 Released
(May 11th)
Blue Byte has
released another smaller patch this time to fix the following:
Structure Exceptions:
A problem occurs when you change the priorities of good to be transported.
Desyncs: Due to the pathfinding of the units.
You can download the patch for all versions here.
Patch Version 1.33 Released!
(May 3rd)
Blue
Byte has released a new patch for Settlers 3 and the Settlers 3
Mission CD. Lets see what's new:
· Up to 10 construction sites can now be set as "high priority". These construction sites are then supplied with all necessary building materials on a priority basis. Only after these construction sites have been completely supplied, will all remaining sites receive building materials. Construction sites which aren't on a priority basis can't order any more workers and building materials on their way to these construction sites will be dropped immediately. Wood and Stone will be treated independently of one another. If only one material is needed at one or more priority sites, the other material will continue to be sent to the other construction sites.
· New and more attention-getting sounds warn the player when he is being attacked. Enemy actions are noticed more quickly.
· Setting a working area has been optimized. It's now possible to center the working area on stones or trees.
· A new button is now available in the message window (small picture). It allows you to return to the screen location where you were before choosing and reading the message.
· All types of towers and castles can now be attacked with just two soldiers.
· The forester doesn't plant palm trees any longer.
· The weapons which are located in the barracks are now also counted in the statistics window for your goods.
· Catapults are now also marked when selecting large numbers of troops.
· The basic settings have been revised. Logs now have a higher goods priority at the beginning of the game. Iron is delivered on a higher priority basis to the tool maker and iron and wood is delivered to the shipyards and catapult halls on a higher priority basis.
/Dieter
Blue Byte maps competition
(May 2nd)
Blue Byte has
announced a new Map Competition on Settlers3.com where you can send
in your maps and vote for the ones you like. Here is a piece from
their page:
Starting on the 3rd of May we will be adding new single-player maps and new multi-player maps that have been sent in for you to download. Play them through and decide which map you think is the best and vote for it here!
That means it is time to open up your map editor and create something
really spectacular for everyone to play. What are you waiting for.
Please note the deadline is 31st of May, so don't wait till the
last minute. /Dieter
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