

I played free for as long as I could stand it and finally made the switch to get the random board and a couple of the add ons (cities and knights/ harbor master). I love Catan but this game is frustrating.
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Now that I know how to play I will just play with friends, the way this AI is designed make it not fun to play. So now I have no resources and I’m just in a perpetual state of AI not trading me and getting robbed. Nope, think again, most times I try to do that I just get robbed. Over the course of my last 4 games I payed closer attention and noticed that 2-3 numbers which have statically low chances of getting rolled get rolled significantly more by 3-4x the amount of other rolls ? Some times that happens in real life too but not every game? During the game I’m thinking okay it’s not a big deal I’ll just have to use the 4:1 trade. You have to rely solely on the 4:1 trade ratio unless of course you get robbed which happens to me almost every single time I have 8 resources. I had games where I was middle of the pack and I kept only getting 1 or 2 resources ( because of odd dice rolling but I’ll get to that late) AI will not trade with you even if they have excess resources and even if you offer ridiculous abundance of every resources. There is definitely a problem with AI trading. However, there are some flaws in this game that make it not fun to play at all. I wanted to learn how to play this game before buying the real board game. Not saying its rigged but just very annoying. 👎Īlso when playing multiplayer 90% of the time a 7 is rolled in the first 2 turns and then not rolled again for a long time. You could at least do a better job at hiding the fact that the game is rigged. Several times when I get robbed by the AI i have seen the resource that the AI took from my hand disappear and then about 1 second later another resource just disappears from your hand too (no 7 rolled or knight played). What is worse than this though is when your resources magically “disappear” from your hand. Im pretty sure catan just cant come up with an AI that is actually good enough to beat a skilled human so in order to make it “hard” they need to adjust the luck of the game. Also if you have 8 resources there are very high odds of AI rolling 7. But once you play a knight to move the robber off, its guaranteed to be back on in only a couple turns. Then a 7 will not be rolled for probably 25 turns as long as you dont play another knight. When you finally get a knight, within 2 more turns a 7 is guaranteed to be rolled so that the AI can put the robber right back on your resource. Try to buy 1,2,3 development cards to get a knight to move it? They will all just happen to be road buildings, monopolies, victory points. When playing the AI (especially of “Master” difficulty) it just happens to be that the robber is insanely lucky to be on your best resource for the whole game.
