This is a very basic strategy that prioritizes flexibility over efficiency, and doesn’t provide you with a clear path to victory.
Let’s start by talking about some of the overall strategies you can take in Catan. The first strategy is the “Balanced Approach”. In this strategy you are simply trying to diversify your resources as much as possible by placing your settlements on a wide variety of resources, with a variety of different numbers. The goal of this strategy is to ensure that you have access to every material in the game, without relying on trading with other players or the bank. This is a very basic strategy that prioritizes flexibility over efficiency, and doesn’t provide you with a clear path to victory. Because you are not optimizing for any particular resources you are likely to fall behind when it comes to building cities and settlements, and are less likely to earn the largest army or longest road compared to a player who is optimizing for those strategies.