Catan
12 Achievements
200
15-20h
Xbox 360
Citizen of Catan
You collected 100 VP's.
20
How to unlock the Citizen of Catan achievement in Catan - Definitive Guide
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Easy Mode
4 AI
10 Victory Points - Standard Game
To win victory points, build settlements, upgrade them to cities, get the Longest Road or Largest Army cards, or build development cards to get Victory Point cards.
You start the game with 2 victory points for your two cities. A common strategy I use is to build them close to one another, but not too close, and connect them with roads until you get the Longest Road card. I then build development cards and use the soldiers I would get from it, while probably getting at least 1 victory point card. Once I get the Longest Road and Largest Army cards, which gives me a minimum of 6 victory points, I buy development cards while building settlements or upgrading cities, and the win comes very quickly.
After 10 games of doing this, you should get the achievement.
TIP: Do NOT do this achievement along with Knight and Builder of Catan. If you are to get all 3 achievements, or any other achievements, simultaneously in this game, it will record one and void all the others unless you load Catan onto another Xbox 360 and recover your gamertag. This is the only known workaround. View Xebu's comment below for more information.
4 AI
10 Victory Points - Standard Game
To win victory points, build settlements, upgrade them to cities, get the Longest Road or Largest Army cards, or build development cards to get Victory Point cards.
You start the game with 2 victory points for your two cities. A common strategy I use is to build them close to one another, but not too close, and connect them with roads until you get the Longest Road card. I then build development cards and use the soldiers I would get from it, while probably getting at least 1 victory point card. Once I get the Longest Road and Largest Army cards, which gives me a minimum of 6 victory points, I buy development cards while building settlements or upgrading cities, and the win comes very quickly.
After 10 games of doing this, you should get the achievement.
TIP: Do NOT do this achievement along with Knight and Builder of Catan. If you are to get all 3 achievements, or any other achievements, simultaneously in this game, it will record one and void all the others unless you load Catan onto another Xbox 360 and recover your gamertag. This is the only known workaround. View Xebu's comment below for more information.
3 Comments
Rumour has it you CAN'T do all 3 of these at once. Reports indicate that Catan is only capable of unlocking one achievement per game thus completing all 3 at once will award one achievement but lock the others out (semi)permanently.
There is a way round it which is apparently to begin again on a new console. Clearing caches may work but nobody seems to know for sure.
Personally Catan has been horrendous for achievements. After winning 25 without being awarded 100 victory points (25x7 as a minimum is way more than I need) or either of Builder or Knight I started again on a new console as suggested. This time around I was able to unlock the 100 victory points on schedule but once again Builder and Knight failed to unlock.
There is some discussion about the glitched achievements here:
http://forums.xbox.com/23512295/ShowPost.aspx
There is a way round it which is apparently to begin again on a new console. Clearing caches may work but nobody seems to know for sure.
Personally Catan has been horrendous for achievements. After winning 25 without being awarded 100 victory points (25x7 as a minimum is way more than I need) or either of Builder or Knight I started again on a new console as suggested. This time around I was able to unlock the 100 victory points on schedule but once again Builder and Knight failed to unlock.
There is some discussion about the glitched achievements here:
http://forums.xbox.com/23512295/ShowPost.aspx
By Xebu on 30 Mar 2009 10:53
The build/undo trick works in single player for this achievement. I would suggest getting Villager, Citizen, and Elder of Catan out of the way first to avoid the glitch, then go for the other achievements. You can see my solution for 'Elder of Catan' for more details how to do this.
By Elem3ntal80 on 04 Dec 2009 01:56
Zef
100 VP is equal to winning 10 full matches, or losing a couple of matches with a high score. This will not take very long playing against easy AI and may unlock whilst you attempt other achievements.
