Ranked Mode - What's the most difficult?
I've played Colonist for a while. I've loved it more than any other Catan platform.
One thing I find fascinating is the difficulty of moving up ranks! This opinion probably isn't too controversial, but I wanted to see if anyone else felt the same.
The opinion is this: Moving from silver/gold to medium platinum is harder than moving from medium platinum to diamond.
Theres's a lot of reasons I think this is true. But, I think it really comes down to mostly one thing: People that are truly fitting of these ranks know enough to be decent but are bad enough at analyzing threats and planning for the future that they cause chaos. In the settling phase they'll leave an 8,4,10 open for the guy who already has an 6,5,9 because they're missing wood and the 8,4,10 doesn't have sheep. They'll rob the guy with 7 points, 0 devs, and no chance at longest instead of the guy with 3 down devs, 2 played knights, and one away from longest with 6 points.
Additionally, they also hold crazy grudges. Rob them once at the start of the game when everything is tied? Oh, it is on!
It always takes me longer to move from silver to the middle of platinum than from platinum to diamond.