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Cheats

i dont think cheats are to be put in the article.. Camicio 19:56, 23 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

links in references

REFERENCES SHOULD BE LEFT OUT: THEY DO NOT LINK TO USEFUL INFO! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.81.37.170 (talk) 00:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They link to the source that the contributors got their information from, which is the point of a reference. Marasmusine (talk) 07:01, 3 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Screenshots

Needs more. (like The Settlers) 84.182.94.7 (talk) 17:54, 25 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Widelands

Someone deleted the part about Widelands. I reverted this change, as we discussed about the wikipage "Widelands" and decided to merge it into this page some time ago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.134.185.130 (talk) 21:32, 12 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Widelands article was recreated, as the notability issues were solved. And so there is no need to recreate the content in this article. Nasenbaer peter (talk) 19:21, 13 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Download

Does anyone know a site we're i can download this?

- Wikipedia certainly isn't a good place to ask about illegal game downloading --Fuzzybyte 23:36, 23 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Define good. I'd say if you're casting a question to as wide an audience as possible then where better? Anyway, just look on any torrent site. www.torrentz.com for example. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.134.197.99 (talk) 23:43, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

i read it was abandonware now, so that means its not really illegal (so far), as is settlers 1. only i can't actually find settlers 2 this way, although i've only searched one site so far. i do have it on cd, but can't get it to work on my laptop. might have to try it again, awesome game. 77.101.18.129 (talk) 16:57, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, abandonia.com has it.68.228.80.106 (talk) 02:19, 17 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

-You can Purchase the game at gog.com

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BetacommandBot (talk) 05:07, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Multiplayer

There is nothing written about the kind of multiplayer in this game. From what I can tell, it's just 'split screen' 211.31.248.89 (talk) 12:10, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Gold version vs original version

Does anyone know what the differences are between the original and Gold versions of Settlers 2 is? --78.105.235.89 (talk) 16:28, 27 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

taken from Abandonia website - The graphics are better than in the original Settlers II, and there are some new features added as well. The sounds are great, as in the other two :) Some gameplay aspects have been improved, and computer will no longer get stuck once you build up a big empire. 77.101.18.129 (talk) 17:00, 8 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The Gold version also contains the add-on Mission CD, that includes a new campaign.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/settlers-ii-mission-cd --Xiglofre (talk) 14:31, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Game guide content

Large parts of this article fail WP:GAMEGUIDE, as they are technical pieces of reference material to playing the game which do not impart important real-world information pertaining to the topic. i'm planning on removing most of this in the near future. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 12:25, 15 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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Spelling

probablility should be probability — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.125.41.119 (talk) 08:49, 27 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

"Return to the Roots"

Some information about the Return to the Roots remake could be written.

http://settlers2.net/return-to-the-roots/

84.248.91.142 (talk) 20:49, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Reception" Semi-protected edit request on 6 August 2014

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This article would benefit from having a "reception" section. 98.194.29.36 (talk) 04:09, 6 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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Assessment comments

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and there is a reason why this is in the Germany project, I'm sure, although it is not apparent from the article. Auntieruth55 (talk) 01:46, 5 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]