Adventures based on mutual respect...

In Settlers we fight the bad guys... Right ! Pirates (=mostly fishermen who don't have another choice than take and steal from whealthy people because industrial fishing companies take over their fishing grounds) , Vikings (= historical inhabitants of Northern Europe), Ali Baba (= Middle East, Muslims), Aztecs (=native Americans who were wiped out by the Europeans), etc etc.

Wouldn't it be "so 2017" to get adventures were Vikings asked help to defeat a thread from... (please fill in for yourself). Ali Baba asking help because he can't deal on his own with... (please fill in for yourself). Aztecs who are facing a major problem of... (please fill in for yourself) and need desperate help.

I don't mind to kick real bandits out of their camp : Settlers is a game, not real life. But i like the Scandinavians, i like the Muslims who live peacefully in my own town and i feel sorry for what was done to the Native Americans and their culture.

History is written by the winners. But... aren't we all just people who fight for what we think is right ? And only time will tell us if we were !

What do you think about "Adventures of Mutual Respect" ?

Funny. Maybe you have a point but I just don't care. We need to fight someone so there has to be a bad guy.... I don't really care who that is.

No point in making the game any more political. No point in seeing ghosts. No one have meant to make the enemies look like anything from the real world - it is just fairy tales. Let it stay that way. That is the best way to have mutual respect. I am danish. I sometimes use my holidays to be a Viking,- I have a Viking tent and tools to craft as a Viking silversmith. I am not in any way offended by killing Vikings in the north adventure.
I do sometimes wonder what a cactus does in Alibaba, Alibaba stories are from Arabia. Only place where cactus grows ins in America, but really who cares.

Fact : cacti are species from the Americas and were imported in Europe after 1492. Later, they conquered parts of Southern Europe, Africa, Middle East and even Australia.
Ali Baba has never ever seen cacti in his life.
And i do mind those little details too.

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Originally Posted by jaykew2012

"so 2017"

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open your eyes and look around m8.. sadly i think you might be a few years late..

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Originally Posted by Urd123

I am not in any way offended by killing Vikings in the north adventure.

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and neither would they be as youre sending them to Valhalla

The all depends on the fantasy fairytale stories, nothing is real and I really see it is not meaning on any group by religion or race!

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Originally Posted by jaykew2012

Ali Baba (= Middle East, Muslims)

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Well, the story itself (the 1001 nights) was going in the middle east area, but it is not meant to be Muslims, personally, I'm Arabian And Muslim, and I'm not feeling like it offends me! I'm even happy to see something came from Arabian culture to here!

Add the on that, thieves must be punished, the thief is thief whatever was his race and religion, in real, there is no group has 0 bad guys, bad guys exist where ever people found!

+ In the first place, Ali Baba and 40 thieves, they are not mentioned as they Muslims or not Muslims! even in the real written story!

It is just a fairytale story drawn as a graphics you interact with it as a game adventure!

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Originally Posted by TheVictorious

The all depends on the fantasy fairytale stories, nothing is real and I really see it is not meaning on any group by religion or race!



Well, the story itself (the 1001 nights) was going in the middle east area, but it is not meant to be Muslims, personally, I'm Arabian And Muslim, and I'm not feeling like it offends me! I'm even happy to see something came from Arabian culture to here!

Add the on that, thieves must be punished, the thief is thief whatever was his race and religion, in real, there is no group has 0 bad guys, bad guys exist where ever people found!

+ In the first place, Ali Baba and 40 thieves, they are not mentioned as they Muslims or not Muslims! even in the real written story!

It is just a fairytale story drawn as a graphics you interact with it as a game adventure!

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Very good points :)

This makes me think that in order to have mutual respect, knowledge instead of prejudices is very much needed.

Maybe some players should take some time off from game and sit down with a good book instead, to get a bit of a wider perspective on the world.

I dont think BB have any intentions of making any of the good or bad guys represent anything at all from the real world. It would be a big mistake to do so.