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Well, you could just honor the rule (it does make sense btw., robber is too strong in early game) and you would have fun playing again. That's what i love about Catan, it's not only a game, it's also about human nature and being nice to each other actually helps you win sometimes. The rule doesn't ...

I agree with your complaint about friendly, but would also add that playing friendly further benefits people who stockpile roads or development cards. Imagine someone who has built two stretches of four roads, separated by one empty space -- almost 9 connected roads. They could also have five or six...

To Sandpiper, whose post I quoted above: how specifically would you suggest creating and enforcing norms of conduct that players ought not steal from someone clearly in last? I think it just has to be a norm created and enforced through language, in the games themselves. It's not a very good way, b...

This has happened to me before (as well as many others. there is already a thread on this topic). In this situation I don't think a player should be able to quit a game that is over 90% completed and it isn't even their turn. You cannot concede a tournament game so I think this could be implemented...

People who don't block on the first turn seem quite kind, which might make the other players avoiding blocking/stealing from them later in the game. Even as a selfish strategy, it may be effective.

But I'm guessing the people who do it usually are just kind people!

It seems to me that maximizing ELO as a strategy is very bad sportsmanship in Catan, since it often involves attacking a player that may be very far behind in the game. The problem here, in my estimation, is that coming in second in Catan usually means nothing , and so should not be rewarded with mo...

No. The player who abandoned got a penalty. You can red-thumb them or restrict your games to high-karma players to minimize the risk of that happening again. Sorry, are you talking as an admin, or something? I was making a suggestion. You can think it's a bad idea, but saying "no" suggest...

I was just about to win a game (literally just had to lay one road, and had the resources for it), and another player abandoned it, which meant that instead of gaining 15+ points in ranking, I gained +1. This is a problem with the scoring system. Can we fix it?