I've collected some tips and tricks from here and there and have put up a Tips and Tricks page into my Settlers II site :)

hi,

i've started the world campaign (europe) and now after 7 hours and almost control of the complete map the game just hangs. The mouse cursor can still be moved but everything just stops. This seems to be a bug in the game itself but i'm not sure. I'm using XP directly without sound. Does anyone know whats going on?

does anybody know where to find new maps???? google finds nothing...

help? pls???


p.s. settlers 2 is the greathest strategy of all time...
end the second is X-com: apocalypse :max:

try searching for "Siedler 2" - Settlers have large following in Germany

Welt Siedler - http://www.siedler-welt.de/welten/fr_welt.htm

German sites:
http://www.florian-carstens.de/siedler2/markt.htm
http://jh-isch.de/s2/seiten/mapdownload.php
http://www.nagel-computer.de/nagel-software/maps.htm

Plus my site has a few and a map generator: http://settlers2.merri.net/



And to spoil a surprise: I'm working on a Campaign Editor now which allows to install and create new campaigns easily.

I found out about a week ago that on my pc I can play Settlers II! I always immediately go the the resolution settings when I'm going to play a game, but with S2 it turned out to be a "don't". Couldn't play it for several years, but now I'm back on track with S2! I'm currently busy with the World Campaign (South Asia atm), man I want to take screenshots from my vast empire with my huge amounts of resources in stock.

Merri, I came across your excellent site where I read this:

"Coastal castle fix in the Tools menu allows you to create maps with harbor sites. You can now create your own expedition maps! However, you must replace a campaign map in order to be able to create ships as expeditions are disabled in Unlimited Play mode.

Could you tell me how to implement this? Cause I would really love to play with ships in the Gold Edition.

A quick guide:

• Make a new map that has a castle sized locations right on the coast (= access to water in the surrouding tiles of the midpoint where the castle icon is)
• Open the map in the map generator, do Tools > Coastal castle fix and save the map again. You can now build harbors to the coast castles.
• Now you need to replace a mission map at DATA\MAPS\MISS_20X.WLD with your .SWD map (200 = first mission, 201 second and so on).
• Edit DATA\MISSIONS\MISS_000X.RTF file (you probably want to remove all !MET events so you don't get weird messages while playing).
• !ENABLE_ALL_HOUSES in the RTF file enables to build all buildings.
• You might also want to add some more people and ware (tools).

Yeah, I know, it is pretty much a hassle and a lot of work and figuring things out. As I already mentioned I'm creating a Campaign Editor that makes all this a lot easier, the target is to make switching to a new campaign a piece of cake and also ease the editing behind a userfriendly interface (no real code to worry about).

If you need the information, I can paste some code from my project that shows what each WARE and PEOPLE are in the RTF files.


Oh, and you can take screenshots. Just press Alt + P and the game takes one. If you'd use DOXBox, you could take screenshots with the regular Print Screen method.

i am playing the Roman missions, mission 2, and after i capture the catapult, i can seem to attack anyone or do anything to get further. anyone know what i am doing wrong? i have played the level twice now with the same result. ta

Wow Merri, you're the king!

I think I'll manage editing the .RTF files. Oooh, I'm excited! :D

So, Alt+P makes a screenshot? Great! I'm not using DosBox, just playing it in low-res, sounds works great and all so I don't need DosBox. Tried that before, on my previous pc, but it wen all choppy and everything. Maybe that was due to the fact I didn't feel like changing all the settings and everything :whistle:

But now, I'll continue studying. Don't want Settlers II to interfere with that, although I think it won't take long until my concentration slips away to Settlers... :angel:

I need some advice on how to keep my best soldiers for attacking because whenever i pay my soliders to train them to a better class they always stay and defend so i end up with my weak attackers attacking... and is there a way to swap what units are stationed in which military buildings??