In Catan: Seafarers When a Gold Field’s corresponding number is rolled, any player who has a settlement or a city adjacent to it can choose any one of the basic resources as the production from that hex that turn. Because of this versatility, Gold Fields are good strategic locations for settlements and cities.
How do you get commodities in Catan?
The players pay for city improvements with commodities such as coins, cloth, or books. How do you get commodities? Instead of two resources, cities adjacent to mountains, pasture, and forest hexes produce only one resource but also one commodity derived from the respective type of resource.
What does seafarers come with?
The Seafarers expansion contains new frame pieces, which – together with the frame pieces of the CATAN base game – can be used to assemble frames of variable size.
Can you play Cities and Knights with seafarers?
Yes. If you have Seafarers as well as Cities and Knights, you can play the scenarios of the Seafarers expansion with the rules of the Cities and Knights expansion.
Can you trade 4 resources for a commodity?
You can trade 4 (or 3 if you have a 3:1 port) of any one thing (resource or commodity) for 1 of any other thing (resource or commodity). On a 2:1 port, you can trade 2 of that resource for 1 of anything.
What makes gold different from all other commodities?
Like commodities, gold is a tangible asset, but it is a unique tangible asset. Gold has attributes that set it apart from commodities, and therefore cannot be considered as a commodity. Nor should gold even be called a commodity as that belittles gold’s special status by overlooking those unique features that make gold different from commodities.
How did the gold standard help the economy?
The gold standard allowed lightweight paper currency to be used for trade, instead of heavy gold bullion. In addition to making purses, and pockets, lighter, the gold standard allowed global trade. During the financial crisis in 2008, many longed for a return to the gold standard. It seemed that money had lost all relation to anything concrete.
Why does a commodity basket standard measure up to gold?
Most of the variation is closely related to wars, for reasons you can imagine. The commodities basket fans often assume that their commodity basket is a perfectly unchanging measure of value (or “purchasing power” since they commingle the two). Thus, any deviation of price is assumed to be a variation in gold’s value/purchasing power.
How is mercury used in the gold industry?
Mercury, a liquid metal, is used in artisanal and small-scale gold mining to extract gold from rock and sediment. Unfortunately, mercury is a toxic substance that wreaks havoc on miners’ health, not to mention the health of the planet. For every gram of gold produced, artisanal gold miners release about two grams of mercury into the environment.
