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This game is clearly rigged.
The pattern of 7 is clearly not random. It is rigged in specific way, that i can almost predict when 7 is about to fall. This is not only from me, but lot of people said this.
I give it one star because I can play it with friends and it's fun. However, if I tried to play online with other players or in a ranking, I would take that one star away. What the game sometimes shows with the dice is complete nonsense. The opponent rolls a 7, puts a robber on my 4, and then immediately rolls a 4 twice in a row. And I could find many more nonsensical examples in the game. Some players rolled 7 7 times in a game, and I only rolled a 7 once in that game. And as I read somewhere, the creators of this game absolutely do not tolerate criticism and opinions that criticize something about the game. I conclude that Colonist is far from an online replacement for Catan. It is just a poor imitation of Catan
2 star for allowing game play, especially with friends but making it obviously skewed and frustrating with the dice rolls in the online play with othersThey explain their dice rolling algorithm in some blog post in hopes of sounding fair, but the charts and numbers are just nonsense and you can quite obviously understand after a while that the rolls favor or unfavor you depending on how much you have won or lost. I have had games where the person who has not a single settlement on an 8 or 6 has won in a 2 player game with a HEAVY margin. Even have screenshots for that. Just because I won a few games before and it was now this other player's turn to win.
Love the game, hate the dice. They came up with whole article about the dice randomness but didn't bother to come up with better algorithm for it. The amount of gray hair I started growing because of this is crazy. I can understand I won't win every game but losing 5 in a row because the dice favoured lowest numbers like 1,2,3 it's just pure evil. This game should be removed from existence for the sake of humanity. I'm sure one day there will be a real war caused because of this game unfair dice algorithm...
Colonist.io is an amazing website that allows you to play Catan for free on a browser or on your phone. I've played so many games in the last few months and I absolutely love it. Yes the dice can be frustrating sometimes, but anyone who actually played the board game or backgammon will know that it happens with real dice as well. It's just the nature of the dice that sometimes it rolls really in an unbalanced way. I play daily backgammon games with my family and I've seen that they roll 6 6 two sometimes three times in a row. Just yesterday, my mum rolled 5 doubles in a row. I was speechless, but it happens. The problem with Colonist is with the toxic community of players who don't know how to take a loss. Get better rather than whining everyone. Keep up the good work Colonist devs!
Apart from the user interface, there is nothing positive about this pathetic website. I cannot believe that their software engineers are so remarkably unskilled that they cannot even implement a random dice. The dice is manipulated for creating so called balanced dice. When you start rolling early 7s with a friendly robber, you know that the opponent will roll those 7s later to balance your number of 7s. How can an engineer be so stupid to come up with such an idea? It is really bad. The game Catan itself is such an enjoyable game and I am sorry that there is not any good website to play ever since playcatan website came to a halt. The software developers (apart from the GUI, front end developers) of this website should just quit for the sake of everyone. By the way, not to mention that the bot is more stupid than anything you can imagine. You can create a better implementation just by using ChatGPT.
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Colonist.io is a web-based, free online alternative to the challenging social and strategy board game Settlers of Catan. Utilize strategy, planning, and cunning negotiation to win.
