# The Settlers of Catan

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-of-catan/8528>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [September 27, 1999, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-of-catan/8528 "1999-09-27T14:30:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-of-catan/8528/62 "2019-10-14T13:45:21Z")

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> [@Airk](#):
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> And that’s roughly the scope of the changes I think are required to get there. Did you copy those houserules from somewhere, or were you just that bored that you kept playing and houseruling until the game got good? 😉

We came up with them over many play-throughs. We like the basic loop of the game: get resources, trade resources, build stuff. So we eliminated the parts that were not fun.

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**Author:** ![Airk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Airk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airk)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-of-catan/8528/63 "2019-10-14T14:21:57Z")

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> [@Pleonast](#):
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> We came up with them over many play-throughs. We like the basic loop of the game: get resources, trade resources, build stuff. So we eliminated the parts that were not fun.

I guess it reflects a difference in philosophies that I would have just said “Screw it, there has to be a better game than this” and put Catan out to pasture.

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**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2019, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-settlers-of-catan/8528/64 "2019-10-14T14:49:36Z")

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> [@Airk](#):
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> I guess it reflects a difference in philosophies that I would have just said “Screw it, there has to be a better game than this” and put Catan out to pasture.

Not so different, I think. It’s just our better game happens to use the pieces of Settlers.

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