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Found a couple more in my latest game https://boardgamearena.com/table?table=483601310

The accounts were made days apart and looking at their game history, they play with each other almost exclusively and 4 of the last 5 games have been quit by other players after they get tired of kingmaking.

The bank card count is pretty much public information. There is no need to artificially hide it from the players. When did I ever say to hide anything from players? And "pretty much public information" still isn't actually public information. If you were in a game IRL and you stopped some...

Your takes are generally horrible. Also saw you on another topic. The way you think is very simplistic. Sure, I can agree that you need multiple outs. But you can leverage stealing much better if you track cards. The way you think that settlement on resource = that resource in hand is just plain wr...

Wrong. On so many levels. First, you can already theoretically reverse engineer how many cards have been drawn from the bank and put back. Look at the replay or parse the logs. Just takes a lot of time at the moment but could be automated with some code. If this kind of plugin would be created, any...

My own preference would be a per-game option for the interface to display the number of each resource that are out. This is information that each player could tabulate from the game log so what's the harm in that information being provided? What I'm contemplating is, you would see the difference be...

I prefer to roll then play knight in most circumstances, the one time I do it opposite is if an opponent has a good numbered tile with multiple settlements that I know they need that resource or have a 2:1 port on. The reason I roll then play knight is, if my opponents don't have a lot of resources,...

The number of Catan games I've played in that have a play timeout before taking their first turn is extraordinary. I play 4 player, turn based rather than live games, meaning it takes several days for that timer to tick over to zero. Is there a reason this happens more with Catan than any other gam...

Many competitive players believe that 3-player is too "easy" since there is too much space on the board and everybody can expand very easily - thus only the dice dictate who is going to expand most quickly and win the game. In 4-player there is not a lot of space on the board and placing ...

I am not sure this is as rampant a problem as people think. I have seen cases where I suspect people are "kingmaking" but really have no way to know for sure. I have also been accused of "kingmaking" several times yet it is not something I have ever done. In fact, I don't know a...