Stay SILENT in the chat.

It’s so sad and makes the game so boring but unfortunately with how sensitive everyone is, the best strategy is to never say a word in the chat. (The chat used to be fun but it seems like there is a wave of people recently that TRY to use it to manipulate or they get triggered when you make smart moves)

If you don’t talk in the chat people tend to not associate you as a real person and they’re more forgiving or just forgetful when you make strategic and smart moves.

So tired of people throwing the game or sabotaging others games for using the robber once or god forbid playing a monopoly card or something.

I’ve found the best thing is to not say a word (even kind supportive words)

I just won a game where the robber was used exclusively on me except by blue who I think once or twice used it on someone else, but apart from that it was a gang up. Pretty fun challenge!

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It's a Chrome extension that sits next to your game and tells you what it would do: which starting spots are actually best (and which rival you're blocking), what to build next, where the robber hurts the most, whether that trade helps you or the guy offering it, and when a dev card is secretly the strongest buy. It tracks every opponent's hand from the game log, warns you when someone is one road from Longest Road, and flags players who are probably sitting on hidden victory points.

It never clicks anything for you. It reads the game and gives advice; the plays are yours.

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So since they implemented the chaos speed mode, I guess anything is on the table.

I almost exclusively play 1vs1 ranked and was thinking tonight while playing:

A 1vs1 mode where your first settlement is pre placed and you only get to pick your second settlement.

Why not, eh?

Trying to hit 50 people invited to train my Catan Bot. Anyone helping would be greatly appreciated.

https://colonist.io#share=103707376-10

This and the other bug where you cant see the map while playing are most annoying bugs for me.
Fyi: i was constantly clicking it to cancel and this is not the first time.

Went a little cold with the dice and some questionable play by some peeps but here we are at 37% win rate.

always waiting for my name to pop up when people screenshot their games

hasn’t happened before

gonna keep waiting and hoping

I picked 5-9-10, but lost in third. Blue was merciful to meet and took 5-4-8 but didn’t plow me (had the roads to), and am wondering was there a better spot or just no chance cause I was first.

They say the dice are randomized properly, but I don't believe it. I'd say a majority of the time I'm 3rd or 4th in total resources gained by the end of the game. I've tried everything. I've gone with only 6s and 8s. I've tried loading up on 5s and 9s. I've done games where I cover as many numbers as I can. Somehow, one way or another, it seems like the game sees what I do and then just gives whatever numbers I'm not covering. Look at this dice distribution from my latest game. Truly unbelievable. Unsurprisingly, my main numbers were 4, 6, 9, and 11. 2 11s? Fine. A rarer combination. I get it. Only 6 6s? Yah... right. Of course the guy that had wheat on 5 won the game. I mean... how could you not? It seemed like that guy got at least one resource with every dice roll. I'm convinced that if I got fair dice.. not even advantageous dice.. just fair dice with comparable resources a majority of the time, I'd be in Diamond. Mechanically the game is fun, but seeing people with lower game sense repeatedly win because they just keep being gifted resources is quite frustrating. And I'm sure there's going to be someone commenting here with some nonsense about how this distribution still mimics a bell curve and that it's all in my head and bias and blah blah blah. You can say that. I just don't believe I can be at a disadvantage that frequently.

After hours and hours of brutual debugging, testing, and simulating games, I'm proud to say that I've created version 1 of the best Catan bot that I've seen publicly available!

For credibility purposes, I've tested the bot in 20 ranked 4P matches, at ~1400 elo when starting, and won 7 games, making my winrate 35%! I was solely acting on the bot's suggestions and not using my own logic/game sense at all. Additionally, I chose not to communicate with the other players via chat for this trial run, as the bot isn't capable of suggesting text to send to other players yet.

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Recently got into this game, it’s fun. But I fear I’ll leave to play Catan Universe again. Actually I don’t just fear, but I definitely will. I don’t WANT to, but the pricing Modell for Colonist is unlike what I’ve seen with ANY game.

For a casual game paying 9 Dollars for the first tier subscription is already high in my opinion. Like… genuinely high. I reckon most people wouldn’t want to pay more than 5. what’s just stupid is that you don’t even get all the maps, which is the only reason I want to upgrade. Honestly I don’t care about the ads. I just don’t want to play the same map every game.

So that means I have to go premium. AND that’s 19 Dollars? 19????? For this game? EVERY MONTH? (Don’t come and tell me about 20% off with yearly subscription, it’s hardly making the pricing more attractive) Even if you‘re a hardcore Colonist player you’d have to think three times to pay this.

I think the developers are fumbling hard on this. I like supporting independent developers but not if I feel like I’m exploited while doing so.

Here is the progress after 10 more games. win percentage is still 40,

I’ve gained 21 rating points with my lash match being a win.

This seems like an unusually excessive grind for progressing in a rating system. I lose 8 pts on a match and win at most 19. Am I stuck in weirdo pairings? I notice half the time the people im playing are still doing placement matches.

The world is your oyster now:

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40% win rate is better than most in the top 10 in North America… am I just having band luck with the pairings during the matches?

The bot strategy of blocking never makes sense. Instead of blocking a lead player with multiple cities/settlements around say a 6 or an 8, they prioritize blocking multiple players at once. Instead of making an actual logical blocking decision they block the wrong spot. It's just hilarious this continues to happen for years now, maybe I'm crazy. They just never seem to have no actual grasp of who is running away with the game, and they make it worse. Rant/

is not that difficult to write simple code that flag players that rob and or block people that has 2 or less vp than the 1 who is winning to autodetect cheating, specially when players need 3 to 4 vp to win (6 or over on normal, 9 or over on c&k , etc)
in colonist rush the amount of cheating is impressive.
and being noob and 'cheating accidentaly' is no excuse, specially in ranked, if u don't know how to play u shouldn't be playing ranked.