NOSTALGIC COMMUNITY ANECDOTE

We’ve asked many of you to tell us a little bit about your personal history with the The Settlers series, about fond memories, funny anecdotes and more. Today we want to feature moin_moin_2018’s memories:

When the first part was released I must have been 12 or 13 years old. We didn’t gave a PC yet, back then so about 2 to 3 times a week I cycled 10 kilometers to my friend’s place just to watch him play The Settlers 1.

When The Settlers 2 released I had my own PC. A 486, DX2/80, with turbo mode as well as a double speed CD drive. The CD drive made me quite popular at school 😉

The second game I played for ages but the thing I still remember today was a this strange situation with one of my mines. One my gold mines ran out of resources and usually you tear it down and move on. Don’t remember why but I forgot to tear it down. And after a while I again received the message that it was depleted. I was surprised about getting another message about the same mine and just watched it for a bit. A little bit later food was delivered and the settler really went down into the shaft and brought new gold with him. Even though the mine was said to be empty.

After a few new gold deliveries I again received the “mine depleted” message. And well, I waited again until food was delivered and again he started bringing new gold to the surface.

Unfortunately, this was my only mine with this strange function. All others worked normally and were indeed depleted at some point.

Don’t know why this memory stuck with me for such a long time but it was pretty cool.