#The Rejoin loop is a disgrace for a paid product

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lone heath
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I’m writing this because I’m tired of seeing a legendary brand like CATAN handled in such an amateurish way.
Besides the statistically absurd dice rolls, the 'Rejoin Loop' (or Desync Loop) has reached an unacceptable level. Here is what happens regularly:
-The app claims I’m offline (even though my connection iz perfectly stable).
-It kicks me out of a match I’ve spent 30+ minutes on.

  • Upon reconnecting, I’m stuck in a 'Time Travel' loop: the game rolls back 2-3 turns, forces me to replay moves, and then crashes again in an infinite cycle.
    This is a critical failure of server synchronization. As a user who has paid for this game, I find this lack of stability an insult to the players' time. We are not just talking about minor bugs; we are talking about a broken infrastructure that fails to save basic game states.
    It’s frankly embarrassing that a multi-million dollar franchise can't manage a stable database for a turn-based board game. If you can't guarantee that a match will actually reach its conclusion without 'teleporting' players into the past, you are failing your paying customers.
    When will we see a fix for these server rollbacks? Respect our time and the money we spent on this app.
plain relic
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Rejoin loop definitely sucks. I've found that if I quit the app and restart, for a moment the X by Rejoin is red, and you can leave the game that way, and I don't think it affects your ELO. I could be wrong, I've only done it a couple times and wasn't paying full attention.

terse tapir
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Hi @lone heath Can I suggest playing with a VPN (like Mullvad). I’m not exactly sure why yet, but the connections have been far more stable.

I have an extremely fast internet connection at home and previously experienced these issues, but for some unknown reason, I haven’t experienced any since using a VPN.

Give it a go and see how you go.

lone heath
terse tapir
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The Rejoin loop just started happening again for me despite being on a VPN.

lean sleet
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Got hit with the loop issue the last two days. Playing in browser

median trench
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