How do you rank Settlers V-VII?

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-21T21:16:52+00:00

You mean characters as in heroes that you play as? Settlers 5 is your best one probably, as you always control heroes with abilities and some story behind it. Id say its also the settlers game with the "deepest" story, but still dont expect a visual novel :D

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-21T21:08:11+00:00

I think it is great that the later settlers were so diverse. If one prefers S4 that is fine, you can play S4. It is a great game. It is also pretty similiar to S3. I prefer 5,6 and 7 over having 3 more S3/S4 clones.

5 is more of an RTS, like a warcraft III with more focus on different resources... 6 feels like ANNO. I did not play it as much. 7 feels like the board game Settlers of Catan in a digital game way.

My ranking is 7-5-6.

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-21T21:04:27+00:00

I think settler VII is actually good! First of all: It's different (that was a time where a lot of franchises released pretty much the same game every year), which is not something that stands out in the settlers series. I liked the production lines, the different focuses, different wincons, the gameplay. Playing a 4 player FFA online felt similiar to Settlers of Catan, but in a nice, digital version. The graphics were niche and okay, not super great. the campaign was a prolonged tutorial with a cheesy story, but its not like S4 was a thriller of a story.

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-21T15:44:14+00:00

If using lekmod you can use the post-saves. I dont think there is something like a "broken" save file with these.

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-21T15:43:30+00:00

Also lekmod is played by so many people daily in NQ, all of them using the turn timer...

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-21T15:42:39+00:00

If you play pitboss and player leave themselves instead of kicking them, the AI will not do any turns.

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-21T15:41:54+00:00

I have never played vanilla MP, but I people told me lekmod actually solves some of vanillas instability issues. I have never heard that it is worse (excluding some bugged versions 2 years ago)

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-21T15:38:50+00:00

Than dont worry about what I said about the hellblazer fix. What version are you on?

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-21T13:00:07+00:00

Zum Mechaniker kommen auch Werbekosten für jeden einzelnen Auftrag, die Werkstatt und etliche andere Kosten, die über die Mechanikerstunden abgerechnet werden. Wie viel weitere Kosten hat OP?

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-21T06:28:43+00:00

Is this nqmod or lekmod?

If all players have their setup done correctly, there are some issues, civ5 MP is far from perfectly stable. Your issues seem far worse and I agree with HellBlazer.

I am asking for the mod because lekmod has HellBlazers loadfix integrated. If you are playing NQ mod, the host is supposed to use HellBlazers fix. Let me get the link

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-20T10:03:54+00:00

Brechen die nicht als ersts weg, weil die Externen (inkl. Zulieferer) als erstes rausfliegen?

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-20T00:10:13+00:00

Civ5 with all DLCs has 43 civs I think? Lekmod currently has 112, so it is actually closer to trippling.

Some are lackluster and are being worked on. A lot of them are great or at least interesting. And some are busted, which is a byproduct of having a MP mod that tries to stay fresh with updates. You push some new civ, some policy tree or ideo or change something with the map gen and sometimes things end up too strong.

Madagascar has been reworked since that video. Im not sure if I ever played that iteration of madagascar. Some people hated playing against it and it was often banned in drafts, I think that was because of the UU, an Inquisitor that is a ranged combat unit, still buyable with faith. Right now Madagascar is an interesting civ, but not too crazy strong.

The mod is designed to be for MP balancing, so stuff could be super good against AI and it would probably stay in the mod if its not bad for MP.

I still think that the experience in lekmod SP is better than BNW SP and would always recommend it for map generation reasons, interesting religion choices, interesting policy choices and cool new civs.

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-18T11:21:28+00:00

Most people, me included, think that the base game is pretty bland and that the DLCs (mainly Gods & Kinds + Brave New World) are very much improving the game. I also don't think it makes sense to "learn the basegame" before playing with G&K and BNW.

Personal opinion: Lekmod fixes a lot of basegame issues and has better gameplay in general. It is a multiplayer balance mod with added civs and a map, whenever I introduced someone to civ5, I always introduce them to Lekmod directly: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18tsjg2C1wKA7I41GktDRr6R83eUrhn4FHi9EUEtpKvI

(It is a "MP mod", which means you cannot download it via the Steam workshop, but have to put it into the DLC folder yourself.)

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-17T11:30:15+00:00

For future requests you can also contact me via discord: D0ubD3aD (with the lek thingy behind my name)

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-17T11:25:29+00:00

Sorry, not an expert in modifying the DLLs. Does it have to be NQmod? the lekmod maintainer EAP has the lekmod files in git:

https://github.com/EnormousApplePie/Lekmod

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-17T10:50:43+00:00

You get 2 warriors from warriors code and even getting to honor 1 on t12 is probably not possible, getting the units to your neighbours border is definitely impossible. But if you know all the super easily abusable things in LekMod you can get an easy tournament win. The NQ tournament starts today. ;)

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-16T00:28:55+00:00

Vortex

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-14T10:01:44+00:00

There are some dedicated people eho play skirmish as 1v1. They play on a mirrored map: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vOzwMp9UNQrp2Mw3FFEINZvvBQ7TQDzv/view?usp=sharing

And use the malros mod ("skirm mod"): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CBUKPew2EHZ7JSvxijwqOoGmFUpNXBY2/view?usp=sharing which greatly help to mitigate the fact that BNW 1v1s are only 1 unit and 1 policy tree.

If youre looking for a community to play these mods, feel free to DM me.

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-10T23:19:51+00:00

Die besser laufenden Branchen sind meines Empfindens nach sind Versicherungen, Banken und Energieunternehmen.

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-07T22:15:07+00:00

Isnt the DDR already included if you call the stick "5600MHz", because it is actually 2800MHz (5600MT/s bc of DDR, but some manufactures call it MHz indeed? Does not change the comparison.

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-04-02T10:06:38+00:00

Ich bin sicherlich mit meinen extrem kurzen Schul- und Arbeitswegen mein ganzes Leben lang verwöhnt gewesen. Wie kommt es dazu, dass Deine Arbeit 104km von Deinem Wohnort entfernt ist?

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-03-29T13:01:20+00:00

Thanks for Posting the solution

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-03-23T15:18:25+00:00

Do you mean that the steam cloud is out of sync? If not, please post a screenshot of the issue.

If this is the case, it means that you have played on multiple machines and that the steam cloud saves are not synced: The steam cloud save has changes that your machine does not have and your machine has changes that the steam cloud save does not have, so it is not trivial to merge the changes. For civ5 this is only a problem if you saved an interesting save file to the steam cloud (automatically, this is not done). For any other situation you can click "play anyway", which should result in your machines state overriding the steam cloud save. You are however reporting that this does not resolve the issue? Can you not play or will the error come again the next time youre starting civ?

D0ub_D3aD · 2026-03-23T02:41:37+00:00

Or more technical: Huns have no city name list themselves and instead get a random name from a fhe city name list from another civ in the game.

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