#The Colonies are kicking my ass...

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wanton delta
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That's all. I thought I knew what I was doing with my Platinum ranking here. Now, with the shut down... I'm in a whole new world and the bartering changes everything. I'm living my best bronze life realizing tournaments are a long way off for me until I can master the psychology of the game.

late radish
carmine spear
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yes same, I hate the UI there but now that devs straight up went dark with no end in sight, it might be time to swallow it and just get used to there. Are you saying competition is tougher there?

wanton delta
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They talk out loud about what they are thinking and doing. They overtly make these transactiins like "I will rob someone else if you promise not to block me", they talk about who is the front runner and how to come against them and they do it actively together like the person isn't in the room. I wouldn't say they are unfriendly, they generally are, but they chatter A LOT and some of the ways they barter and trade I didn't know was possible. It's probably a lot like how it goes in real table games. I need to learn the ethos of Table Talk for sure. I don't say much at all in universe but I'm usually in my quiet introverted happy place when I'm playing too. Also, I'm either playing horribly or they are really good.

wanton delta
carmine spear
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Yeah my usual is Treasure island so I will have to check out the pricing. Though, yes that sounds good, because that should be part of the game, it's still strategic to negotiate - make and break alliances as game goes as in real life and in tournaments. Would make it more interesting and I actually asked Catan Universe here if they would add voice channels for exactly that but they said it would be too hard to control how nasty/jerk-like people can get online? Which to me, what is the difference of people insulting others in the chats vs in voice channels but oh well

carmine spear
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yep, brought it up a year ago when they were still at least answering customer queries hehe So just spend 2 hours on colony games, honestly still really hate the UI, but getting used to it. The most startling positive element has been mostly how much people do use the chat functions there and actually all polite so far. Also, their discord literally has a section for developers to contribute and customers are given coins for any new bugs they report. Really feel like CU should be doing the same. Honestly I would not even mind ads in between games if they can actually maintain a working game.

Anyways, for people interested, here is what I I found out: it is pretty expensive though for expansions (20 bucks for seafarer + c&k), and most people seem to play base game for that reason, also ads will still be on both sides on website unless you are a monthly subscriber which is crazy expensive (14bucks a month)

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so we have an estimate of how many active users Catan U has, is there a way to see how many on colony?

random rapids
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colonies is more difficult than universe, there are more hard players than in universe. Also, IA plays good and is well balanced. the ones who have played only universe are getting hard playing colonies

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time to move there, catan universe is inside the dark

wanton delta
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Just the basic game

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I haven't tried that yet lol

wanton delta
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That is interesting

wanton delta
rugged geode
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i like that you can play 1v1 but I wish it was on steam and not a browser thing -if you are talking about colonist- if not, what is this and where can i find it lol

knotty basalt
rugged geode
knotty basalt
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pls

rugged geode
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I messaged you directly bc I don’t think they allow links here

late radish