Obviously catan requires luck considering it uses dice but over all what % of luck and skill plays a part in an average game.
Id probably say 70 skill 30 luck imo.
I was able to join a group of friends that play Catan weekly and convinced them to do a mini tournament 2 games of 4 (both played on mega table). Same board for both games to replicate real tournaments scenario, and I replaced one wheat resource for brick. We took the top two from both games and played a final table. I took the W in both!
I had a great time, definitely a lot more fun than I imagined. It’s hard to get time in playing with friends nowadays since my wife is recovering from multiple surgeries and we have a 3.5 year old at home (we call him Threenager).
The last photos are of my friend Johnny purposely ruining another players evening my blocking him in. Johnny got 4th that game.
It seems unbelievable to me that in the age of AI, Catan game is still insanely buggy, the experience is basically unusable. How is it possible that they don't see the money opportunity here and don't want to invest more? The game is highly addictive, it's perfect for digital age, but the app is so bad that makes you give up.
I really can't understand this from money stand point, how do they not see potential here.
A few months back I posted here about Wood4Sheep, the little app I built because my family kept arguing about whether the 8 is broken. The response was honestly more than I expected, and some of you have been using it since. Thank you for that.
Now I want to make the app feel like home for more players. Right now it's in English and French, and I'd like to add more languages. But I don't want to guess, I'd rather hear it from the people actually playing.
How to vote: I'll drop the languages I'm considering as comments below. Upvote the one you'd use. If yours isn't in the list, leave a comment and I'll add it.
And if you've got any feedback on the app itself, I'm reading everything.
Free on iOS, no accounts, no ads, no data collected: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wood4sheep/id1505114721
Thanks for taking a minute to vote, it really helps me figure out where to put the effort.
Very proud of my collection!
Would you like to print them yourself; they are free at makerworld https://makerworld.com/nl/@Eva2601/upload
Are you from the Netherlands? Or europe? Send me a message and i can make them for you!
I want to say Guido the Ambassador because he is based on real life Guido Teuber, but then again I feel like Candamir is pretty popular too, and quite powerful in-game.
Sometimes, some games feel like fate is not on your side, and is completely backing someone else. Especially when they roll 3 10s in row, or someone else somehow manages to win on low probability strat of 3s and 4s and 11s.
So I made a Catan dice tracking app True Troll to see what the reality was. I know its quite niche and there are other version which have been made before however I felt like going through a learning process and making my own.
Things you can do on True Roll:
- Catan 2-6 players
- Each player roll tracked on a chart with colours
- See a summary of who rolled the most or least of a number
- Use your own on simulated dice
- Game Duration
- Each player's turn time and average turn
Added a sample image below, feel free to give it a try and I'm always open to feedback
Player 1 claimed longest Roads card with 13 roads. Player 2 also makes 13 roads but cannot claim it. Player 3 comes in, uses the card "remove open road" for player 1, player one has 12 roads now and then player 3 makes 13 roads and takes the longest road card thus claiming the two points and ending the game. Is that possible?
Ps we are playing seafarers + cities and knights
I got a used The Settlers of Catan Compact as a gift.
Unfortunately, the game board is missing (the one that is normally printed directly on the box).
Does anyone happen to have it as a PDF for printing, so I could simply place it on top?
Thank you
Was recently reviewing this Finals game and thought I'd post it for review as it really was a interestingly placed out board with a lot of twists and turns throughout the game. Placement order was Pink -> Brown -> Blue -> White.
I think if I had my choice, I'd pick Blues position, because the 9-3 and 3-1 expansion is a great dev setup where you can just churn your wood to buy devs every turn once you're set up.
I’m blue, playing with 2 people (up till 12 points, no robber till player is at 6 points)
I have been running organized 4-player Catan tournaments online and started tracking the data last week. Across the last 3 tournaments, here's what the seat position win rates look like and the average resource allocation after placements per seat position.
The sample size is still small but the consistency across all 3 tournaments (4th was best in all 3) is what surprised me. I'm curious if you've seen something similar in the more competitive games you've played, and what stats you might be interested in me tracking in the upcoming/future tournaments.
Desktop version had matchmaking ads for the longest time. Our mobile was still in development so we didn't prioritize it. But now it is live there as well.
We understand not everyone will love seeing ads before queue entries.
We made this decision deliberately because we believe it’s the most player-friendly way to support and grow Colonist while keeping gameplay fair and accessible. We also made sure not to have external annoying ads, so all the ads players will see are Colonist native videos.
We do not want pay-to-play ranked queues, energy systems limiting how many games you can play, or gameplay advantages tied to spending. Compared to those models, short queue-entry ads allow us to keep the competitive experience open to everyone.
As always, we’ll continue monitoring feedback and player experience closely and adjust tweaks over the coming weeks.
Been waiting for months .. nothing.. Pretty shitty distribution. Nothing on Amazon, local stores, everything on eBay is high cost imports. Sort it out Catan!!! Cities and Knights the same
I took a stab at some Barbarian tiles. I wanted it to feel more like an invasion, so instead of a single boat, I made the marker three viking ships. My plan is to make the final tile a beach tile, but I haven't figured out what clutter to add to it.
What do you all think? Will it take up too much space? Is the space for the ships too large? It took up more of the tile surface than I expected.
Any ideas for clutter on the final beach?
