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Stop deleting suns
So I jumped on to play a round today; got through the motions, get my game setup, my sun has renewed which is great. Then it pops up with a little message about getting 10 free suns; well that’s cool but I’ll do that later when I have time. So I click continue and it cancels my game and takes my sun and takes me back to the dashboard. I try to enter the game but there is no such game. Please stop taking the suns for no reason and leaving the player with nothing to play. I really love this game but I’m nearly ready to delete it because it’s just so infuriating.Show lessNprmal
Perfect solution for isolation from fellow Catanians
As more and more of my family and friends are exposed to Catan, it is becoming the perfect solution to playing together long distance. I really don’t have much else to say except it provides a near exact representation of the original game in a virtual format. However, note for the app developers, there have been a few coding changes over the past 6 months that I feel could be improved: For example: Incremental numbers that are added or subtracted, such as the number of cards or roads you have in your posession, are being calculated and displayed BEFORE the visual annimation of the cards or roads is being applied. Although this does not change the end result of the calculations, it does cause some visual confusion because it quickly calculates your numbers, and then you watch the cards come and go, but the numbers stay the same because they already changed. Is it possible to adjust the order of the coding to allow for the calculations to take place AFTER or more in SYNC with the visual animations?Show lessKjtgmn
Improved app for Catan which is a limited game.
Much improved by fixing most of the connection issues. So moved rating from 1 to 3 stars. But still plagued by intermittent connection problems despite having 1Gbps connection. Still has major bugs unresolved e.g. keeps trying to rejoin a game that ended. So backdown to 1 star.
Also Catan results are often determined by who gets the roll of the dice. Then there are the vagaries of ranking(e.g. I won a game in the special season and got -9 ELO. In other words, my ranking declined when I won the game. I didn’t lose the game, I didn’t quit. I won and my ranking dropped.). There appear to be many players who make the others wait an extra 6 minutes while they’re booted instead of quitting which would be more considerate. But maybe they have connection issues too.Show lessLikeMinds
App closes when i place my first settlement
Game keeps crashing constently, kicks me out of games im close to winning....this doesn’t make sense, fix it or refund me pleasePat Mouss
Infinite freeze
Paid for the full game. Was playing multiplayer. Tried to build a road and it crashed. Every time i open the app it tries to rejoin that game but cant and gets stuck on the loading screen. Have closed/deleted etc... the app but nothing fixes it.
save your moneyColdcoast
Frustrating
A lot of things with the ui are not intuitive. It took three of us some time to figure out how to build a road for example. We’re long term catan players. We just couldn’t figure out the ui. I’m not too mad that the base game costs money, but why make it a pain to buy? I have to jump through several hoops and buy gold (how do you earn it? No idea. Hubs and I played a game, he won, I came in second. But I had gold and he didn’t. I don’t even know how I got the gold.). And where in the app do you find the purchase game option? It’s buried in a weird spot! Also several bugs. The AI is EXCRUCIATINGLY slow. Why on earth would anyone want that? And the sliders to change their speed are locked. I thought buying the game might unlock them. Nope. Spent $5 for nothing. I’m spending soooo long waiting for a turn at a game I’m playing by myself! And there doesn’t seem to be anything I can do about it! It’s nice to have this game as an option during the pandemic, but ugh it’s frustrating as heck!
Ps is there some reason the AIs won’t trade at all with me? Am I doing it wrong? I played a game with friends and we traded ok, but nothing I suggest gets responses from the AI.Show lessLisapisa1234
A great game gone wrong
I love Catan. This app has all the right ideas: great layout, art design, and more. The free option is really good, though I wish I could play more than once every 12 hours.
I would gladly buy this game, but unfortunately it’s not worth it. If you’ve read the other reviews you might see issues with the AI. It’s crap. There’s no point in playing master AI, the novice ones seem to be able to play at that level. Random generated dice? It doesn’t seem that random. I’ve probably played at least 100 games so far. Too often what happens is that every number you’re not on is what gets rolled. Let’s say you’re on 8 but not 6 (6 is rolled more often) and vice versa. I’ve had amazing games where I start with 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 (or similar). And yet, 6 and 10 become the hot numbers that game, sometimes occurring consecutively. I’ve had games where 2 has been rolled 4 times in a row. I just played a game where I was ahead by 6 points, and then the AI “somehow” got these amazing rolls to come back and beat me by 3 points.
Until they fix the dice and AI, I would just stick to the free version. If you buy the game, then you’re still going to have the issues they were having nowShow lessSarcasticChef79
Great game when it works, but buggy
My wife and I are both really enjoying this game, but every so often it goes through a period of bugginess. Often this means losing contact with the server (I think) which means that you might be in the middle of a game and then that game is lost. So two or three or four people‘s time is wasted.
Unfortunately, with the new update to Catan Universe 2.01, you cannot even login any more. How is that possible? Surely this has been tested before release. Or is it amateur hour for the Catan Universe developers?
We both play on iPads with the latest operating system as of November 2020.Show lessDaveInSydney
Great except...
The dice rolling. I’m sure I’m not the first to say so and I’m certainly not going to be the last. It might be the only thing I dislike about the app as a whole, but it honestly leeches the joy out of the game.
I find myself prioritizing how I think the dice rolls will play out based on the board rather than good strategy. Is there 8 on lumber with a lumber port, don’t count on 8’s rolling. Just use the inventor card? I’ll put money it rolls whatever you switched out. Robber get placed on your number guarantee it gets rolled immediately after and probably 2 or three times in a row. How bout some stats? I just played a game where out of the first 30 rolls 15 of them were the same 2 numbers.
I’ve been playing this game for years, pre the Catan universe release and I’ve enjoyed a lot of it. One of the few apps I’ve ever been more than happy to purchase. But the dice roll algorithm is utterly broken, I’d even says it’s getting worse and it might push me away. Please don’t let that happen. PLEASE, PLEASE fix this.Show lessDrNiiick
Worse than COVID?
Ok, maybe not, but this is the most maddening app I’ve ever used. Three friends and I have all paid up so we can play Cities & Knights /Seafarers (the best board game ever) during the pandemic. The game randomly gets stuck for 1 or 2 players at some point, with no way to proceed and finish games. We’ve finished maybe 20% of the games we’ve started, so frustrating. It works fine playing against AI players, but not real people friends. This was supposed to be the one bright/fun spot of the pandemic, but the developers have robbed us even of that. I won’t be trying again, but please fix the game so others can enjoy it. Also it takes a ridiculous amount of CPU/memory resources to play on the web interface, shocking for a board game. My brand new 16” MacBook Pro has to run the fans at full bore with only Chrome and this game running just to keep up. I think they need to re-code this entire game from the ground up, but I highly doubt they will fix any of this, which is sad.Show lessBayPinball79
