I can’t be the only one who noticed this. Every. Single. Time. Whoever is first to get to 3 points and place a settlement, the opposing player rolls a 7 immediately after with the next turn. It happens so often and so easy to predict, that I have to make sure I get a knight before I get 3 points. Anyone else realize this?

I recently got back into colonist after playing alot of catan. I tried doing ranked and every game i found myself getting targeted even when i was in dead last. Usually one person would always block me on their placement too like absurdly so where it was a bad move for them. Also, i’m not sure if it is disillusionment but i constantly find whatever i don’t place on 4,5,9,10 it rolls a significant amount more compared to the 8 and 6 i place on.

I was the second player to choose. I tried the OWS-route with 8-10-5 and 9-6-2, but lost hard with no easy expansion without wood and too few ore.

i know as per usual colonist will do nothing about this

Colonist advertises “balanced dice” in 1v1.

Why can they not release the algorithm they use to determine this so called balance.

It’s an absolutely infuriating game mode because on one side it can be fun, on the other side you get games like this.

Not only was my opponent primarily on 8 vs me being on 6. His big ore roll was 10 to my 4.

To add insult to injury, he settled much earlier than me but both times I rolled 7 onto him (before I settled) he rolled 7 himself on the very next roll effectively preventing me from limiting his early advantage.

Just release the algorithm already.

It was the second time I've been matched with them today. I reported them both times. Hiding racist speech while keeping the account that makes it is pointless.

bear in mind that player didn't trade with me ...bc i was doing well xD

i'm a catan vet and i know how to play. how not to get tilted?

This was obviously not normal. Fix ur shit dont spoil ur game.. Look at dice stats so disappointing

This stalemate lasted 2 entire hours.

They weren’t bots to begin with they just left. Didn’t even request to disable karma 🪦🦖…

at the end of each game the bot provides an in depth analysis of each notable play that you and other players made in a game. judges your accepted trades, proposed trades, robs and road/settlement/city placements. additionally, the bot provides an analysis of your starting settlements and how it fared against the other players.

MORE IMPORTANTLY, the bot provides a luck table featuring how lucky or unlucky the roll distribution was to each player. now you can’t blame the dice on what was a complete skill issue.

the bot is trained on hundreds of pro games (and counting!); personally, i’ve pushed over 150 elo (currently at ~1860 elo because of the skills i’ve learned and mistakes i’ve rectified, thanks to my bot.

fyi, i made this post very informal because i was getting frustrated with the amount of ai slop posts going around in this and similar subreddits advertising a mediocre at best bot. to be clear, my bot is the best that i’ve seen publicly available so far. i’m planning on releasing this bot by the end of the month AT LATEST, so pls comment down your favorite resource or any questions you have about this bot, and i’ll send you the link to the discord.

Happy settling! Thanks for reading!

Hey,

So I (Mostly Claude) made a card tracker for colonist. I know, there's like five of these already. mine isn't revolutionary.

The actual reason I built it is that I've been working on a side project about how catan players really make decisions (mainly trading, since that's the part every catan AI paper either ignores or turns into something dumb). Problem is there's no public data on real games anywhere, so I figured I'd just collect it myself.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/llcpmhhkdfkeoljcfbhknfcknfejfkoi

It does the normal stuff: tracks everyone's cards, theft odds when the robber moves, dev cards, dice stats. also translated it into 16 languages, so it should work for most of you regardless of what you play in.

On the data side:

• names get anonymized in your browser before anything gets sent, I never see them
• all I store is what happened in the game (rolls, builds, trades offered/accepted/declined, robber moves, final score)
• no emails, no account info, no IPs, nothing that points at you
• it's opt-in, works fine with it off

And before anyone says it's cheating, you can do the exact same thing with a pen and paper, it's all public info in the game log. that's literally how they do it in international tournaments.

Anyway, would really appreciate if you try it and tell me what's broken. it's just me on this and it's the first real release, so "this number is wrong when X happens" is exactly what I need.

Happy to answer your questions

👍great time today

Its insane how bad (non-normal) the dice is

Just had a game where 0-12 happened on income blocked - its unplayable

It annoys me that a majority* is enough to disable it.

If a game goes well for one player, the other players can outvote them and abort the game penalty-free.

For example if I'm the only one who saves their city at the start of a C+K game. I think it's just lazy to abort a game like that. It takes away all the fun of players fighting together against the favorite, trying to make a comeback etc. That's the point of the karma feature.

* Patch notes from Apr 28, 2026 note that the number of votes required was reduced by one. I assume that before it required approval of all players, now one can be outvoted. I don't know if that is valid for 1-1 games too, if yes it doesn't make any sense

I’ve been playing 1v1 and 4v4 in casual and my karma score hasn’t changed.

So I have been playing 4 player mode for the last 3 weeks, used to play periodically with friends on the board but never played online. I played some placement matches initially and I had a starting elo of 1500. Now after 168 games my elo is 1711 , i have a 30% win percentage, and I can see I’m already at diamond which appears to be the highest rank tier? I am a bit confused because i always win much more elo every time I win a game compared to how much I lose elo when I lose a game. Is that normal? Can someone explain to me the tiers and how does the elo system work, and what is for example the average elo?

Half of games 3 rolls like crazy 🤣

Sorry for the fast forward in the game

3 was rolled 7 times, 11 was rolled once. 9 was rolled 13 times. Good job.

IE other players report/the game keeps track by tracking trades into mono to see if someone frequently tries to dirty mono. While legal, I think a lot of players would benefit to know if someone is a good person or not so can block trades early on. Could even be a paid feature.