No, it's the 4 billion player "Earth" standalone game: It consists of only one tile which all of the players must place their villages, roads and cities on. It's a simulation of all the room we've got in this universe.
In this version there's no numbers or dice rolling. All the resources available are dealt once to a common pool. There'll be enough for everybody's need, but not enough for anybody's greed - to quote Mahatma Gandhi. So would they all manage to play this out in peace; setting up homes and connecting to each other? Or would they succumb to greed and one would eventually emerge victorious at the expense of all the others?
So You're basically saying it's a coop with a potential traitor?
Yep, but the game is not so much about what happens on the tile as to what happens around the table. As political animals we do have certain interests, thus in this version the trading is replaced with negotiations. It will essentially be a scenario where either everyone's a winner or the winner takes it all - or at least most of it. So if a traitor emerge, would you then allow yourself to be outrunned by that person? In the end; how great is your feeling of responsability for the welfare of all?
This version adress the urgent need of resource management of our planet, thus making it more of a philosophical inquiry rather than a real game, because the sad fact is that the 4 billion people have already lost control of the real ballshaped version of this game.
No, it's the 4 billion player "Earth" standalone game: It consists of only one tile which all of the players must place their villages, roads and cities on. It's a simulation of all the room we've got in this universe.
In this version there's no numbers or dice rolling. All the resources available are dealt once to a common pool. There'll be enough for everybody's need, but not enough for anybody's greed - to quote Mahatma Gandhi. So would they all manage to play this out in peace; setting up homes and connecting to each other? Or would they succumb to greed and one would eventually emerge victorious at the expense of all the others?
The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. - GKC
So You're basically saying it's a coop with a potential traitor?
Sounds more like a war game where a small handful of the 4 billion will know how to win and the rest will sit around complaining that the game lacks balance,
This version adress the urgent need of resource management of our planet, thus making it more of a philosophical inquiry rather than a real game, because the sad fact is that the 4 billion people have already lost control of the real ballshaped version of this game.
No, it's the 4 billion player "Earth" standalone game: It consists of only one tile which all of the players must place their villages, roads and cities on. It's a simulation of all the room we've got in this universe.
In this version there's no numbers or dice rolling. All the resources available are dealt once to a common pool. There'll be enough for everybody's need, but not enough for anybody's greed - to quote Mahatma Gandhi. So would they all manage to play this out in peace; setting up homes and connecting to each other? Or would they succumb to greed and one would eventually emerge victorious at the expense of all the others?
...and ultimately themselves.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his lack thereof. (despair.com)
It wouldn't even be possible to finish the first turn before all the players (and 220 generations more) are dead:
The estimated playing time for a game of Settlers is 90 minutes. A game lasts like 20 rounds. Let's say each player spends roughly 20 minutes to complete all of their turns. One turn then takes 1 minute.
Then, if 4 billion are to use 1 minute each it amounts to 4 billion minutes. This equals 2 777 777 days, which is the equivalent of 7 610 years! Our distant relatives in the future would eventually manage to complete the game, but the end result would outlive us by some 140 000 years! And rememeber that this example doesn't take into account any toilet breaks, the occasional drop of a dice to the floor, trash-talking or analysis-paralysis.
And lastly: If you just want to measure your opponents, it'll only take 127 years. Then you spend a generous single second to look at each individual face.
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There isn't a Robber, but a Multinational Corporation. When you place the MC piece onto the tile you gain control of all the world's resources. Then you make big profits by selling back the exact same resources to the ones who initially owned them.
