This game is hard. It's settlers 2 but with many many more ways to mess yourself up. Sadly the community is mostly german, otherwise I'd be an active participant. It's a great game and a great advert for open source gaming.
According to Wikipedia, Klaus Teuber started designing the board game years before the computer game was released, so it's probably not a major source of inspiration. He did change the name (adding "of Catan") so people wouldn't mistake one for the other.
Learn german :) it's not that difficult, it's really fun and imho very cool. I learned english by playing betrayal at krondor with a dictionnary for only help (to be honest I was much younger and had plenty of time)
LOL! Sorry - I just picked a German programming language. Damn.
I think they meant the community is mostly German. Germans tend to have very good English skills, but if most of the people around you in the (game's) community are native German speakers why speak English and struggle along?
> Germans tend to have very good English skills, but if most of the people around you in the (game's) community are native German speakers why speak English and struggle along?
Because most is not the same as all.
Unfortunately, this is sort of a self fulfilling prophecy, as rswskg's original comment indicates. The fact that the community is German speaking means that non German speakers won't join (effectively restricting the pool of potential contributors by ~99%), and thus the German speakers won't have any reason to not speak German.
