Will this ever be resolved? Purchased the game but can only play on my phone. Have an iPad mini which crashes the game constantly since the update. This is ridiculous to just say play on another device. I purchased it to play on my iPad not my phone.

100% true.. this same person came in game just now ended a few seconds before. Did the same thing.. Use of foul language; intimidating tricks. Should definitely ban this player from the game.

I don't think it is something limited to Mac. Same thing happens frequently with my wife's laptop running Linux. It also happens occasionally with my laptop running Windows 10.

There must be something about the program that uses a lot of processing power or something.

It's a known issue, but the work-around is to click on the actual progress plaque at the lower right where your pieces are. You will probably have to zoom out or scroll down to it, but clicking on the color portion of the plaque corresponding to the improvements you want to make will let you make the upgrade when clicking on the city won't.

Well, the rules are a little confusing, and the game doesn't always follow the rules exactly.

First, the active player has to take a number token from one of their own resource hexes. So if I have a settlement on the intersection of 4, 5 & 6 - I will have to pick one of them to remove the number from. The exception is if my settlement is only adjacent to one number (point of a hex, or other numbers have already been removed), then I can take from an unoccupied hex. If there's no unoccupied hex, I get to take from an opponent hex as long as they will still have one (or more) number(s) left adjacent.

At least that's how it is supposed to work. As I mentioned, the game doesn't always follow that. Occasionally it will let a player take a number from an opponent even though there is an unoccupied hex available.

"Hallo Cataner,
Um die "Spiel.digital" zu feiern ist das Basisspiel um 40% auf nur 300 Catan Gold reduziert. Dieses Angebot gilt vom 22.- zum 25. Oktober. Zusätzlich erhalten alle Cataner, die sich in dieser Zeit einloggen 5 rote Sonnen.
Wir sehen uns auf der Insel."

Quelle: Ingame-Benachrichtigung

The damn AI is not able to understand that the other player also has that resource card in this case. This literally happened to me while playing a multiplayer game in which a player left who is replaced by the AI. That stupid AI kept robbing me while the other player was 4 points ahead and won easily. This is BS. This game is really like a student project, how can it be deployed while it has tons of bugs?

The old playcatan website was incredibly good with respect to this junk

Totally agree. It is incredibly bad, waste of time. Designed by engineers who give importance to how it looks rather than how it functions and performs. It is like a student project.

@Robert-the-Conqueror definitely agree. Just played a game where 6 came up once and the most popular roll was 11 - impossible to win

One of the drawbacks of being in the lead (especially in Cities and Knights) is you are more likely to be robbed. Sometimes players will rob from you if it looks like you might get Longest Road, Largest Army, etc. Or, sometimes if they see you get a resource they need - you will get robbed.

Usually the pieces shown on the table are removed as you use them. I don't usually pay much attention to them unless I know I am running short and want to see how many I have left. I have not noticed any discrepancy in what is left on the table and what I have available to play - but there are a lot of graphic refresh issues since the release of version 2.

For most scenarios you will have 5 settlements, 4 cities, 15 roads and (for Seafarers scenarios) 15 ships. There are only a couple scenarios (Grand Catan & Oases) that use different numbers of pieces. For Cities and Knights, you have 2 of each strength knight (basic, strong, and mighty).

It works fine - though you may have to log out and then log back in before it will work. I had to do that to unlock the upper level colors.

You can go about it two ways - add them as friends or you can create a guild and invite them to join.

Custom matches let you pick from your friend list. Auto matches can be limited to Friends or Guild members. More friends and or guild members make it more likely you will get a successful auto match. Custom matches are the surest way to get a game with people you know.

In regular Catan you hold on to the VP until you have enough points to win on your turn, but in Cities and Knights the VP cards are played immediately. Probably because if you held them in your hand another player could steal them with the Spy progress card.

Hi, eine Frage: Wieso gibt es keine Zufallskarte für "Erz für Wolle"? Ist doch voll langweilig immer die gleiche Map, hat doch gar nichts mit dem Szenario an sich zu tun?

Yes, that's what happens. Unfortunately, the DEVS think that its clever to interfere with the AI. All it does is ruin the game. And the more you criticize them, the more they punish you. I find it quite amusing now, because situations like you mention here above happen all the time once they decide to mark your card.
Basically, instead of making the dice truly mimic real dice, they interfere with the rolls to give the most unlikely outcomes. That's why from 1276 elo, I went to 1060 in the space of about 30 games. I stopped playing for a year.

DEVS, Please, please, please make the dice truly random to mimic real life. Many people here and lots that you meet when playing are just so fed up with the constant AI interference. Its the easiest thing in the world for you to reset it and it would turn the game from being a totally annoying game into an excellent game, where skill was rewarded. Surely that is the way it should be. Think about it.

Also, please let us criticize you without you feeling the need to punish us. I hope that that isn't too much to ask!
We would love this game if you just made that simple little fix. There is no need to interfere with randomness. It just makes the game very poor, when should be so good.

I am not sure about MacBook, but in the Steam app during the game you can click on a player's avatar and one of the options is to "report player" - which is a caution symbol (triangle shape with a ! inside). There is a comment window that opens for you to add additional information.

Indeed, UP.

Another thing you can try is to scroll down to where the development card stack is shown on the board and click on the stack. This should also bring up the confirmation screen if you have the required resources.

@anishyk did send you a direct message