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DragonYen
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Achievement won on 18 Oct 09TA Score for this game: 391
Posted on 10 October 09 at 21:32, Edited on 04 October 12 at 19:15
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The developer expects you to play ranked matches a lot. Win or lose, all points are supposed to count. However this game has some problems... anytime you go to unlock two achievements at the exact same time, it will unlock one, and prevent the other from ever unlocking (unless you recover your gamertag on a console where you haven't played Catan, and re-achieve the requirement). Also the game has been known to lose your ranked Victory Points.
Because of this, if you want to make sure you unlock without worrying about the points counting or not counting, and if another achievement will unlock at the same time :
Build, Unbuild, Rinse, Repeat. If you build a settlement or city during a ranked match. It counts as 1 point toward this... even if you UNBUILD it. During a turn, you can generally build/undo anywhere from 20 to 25 times You might start slower, but you'll eventually get the speed up. Cities are easier, since a settlement has the same requirement as a road, thus you have to navigate past road to build the settlement.
You must START a ranked match with 4 players, however if a player drops, it will replace it with a computer AI player. Points you get STILL count if a human player drops. This works as of the date of posting (Oct 10, 2009). We had people get the achievements both after 1 person dropped, and after 2 people had dropped. I would assume that they will work even if 3 people drop and you are left alone, however I cannot confirm this. See notes for confirmation that this does work.
It's better if you do this when other players are knowingly doing it as well, otherwise you are likely to get a lot of bad feedback. If all 4 players are doing it, you can pretty much keep the game going "forever" since no one will get enough points to win. Achievement is awarded IN GAME, not at the end, so you can get multiple VP achievements during one game. Note that if you use this method you will likely have to do all 1000 points in 1 sitting (can be multiple games - just don't exit to the dashboard). If you exit the game your point total will likely reset to 0. It doesn't always do this though, so feel free to try at your own risk. |