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I like to play Catan with my daughter, we can't play a 2 player game so we for example play a 3 player game, we don't cheat we just play as normal, but it's the only way we can play together as we dont have a third person we know that plays Have you heard of the “friendly mode”? How does that solve...

claremaher19 wrote: ↑06 April 2026, 13:23 I like to play Catan with my daughter, we can't play a 2 player game so we for example play a 3 player game, we don't cheat we just play as normal, but it's the only way we can play together as we dont have a third person we know that plays

Have you heard of the “friendly mode”?

The only way cheaters/kingmakers can operate their way and cheat is if one of them has a premium account to create table otherwise they’d not easily get into a table together to dupe others. Now why would BGA do anything if this is a reason for them for getting more memberships. Imho, there are more...

What you describe is not kingmaking but it is team play/collusion. Since this is cheating the ELO system it is reportable. Yes, it is tedious. And it could be better documented and made easier to report. But if you do so with sufficient documentation the player(s) will be punished. potato potato. T...

I fully agree. It’s a game and it’s supposed to be fun. There are people who don’t even try to hide it where one account is t even attempting to win at all and then there are those that admit to team play openly and nothing ever seems to happen. True. And where are all those regulars commenters who...

It’s so sad to see that a significant number of players here play on the same table using multiple accounts. And of the 100 such accounts, maybe 10 get reported and of all those reported i doubt if even one barely gets banned for life Just have a look at the all time leaderboard. Of the top 50, 40+ ...

The * is clearly a kingmaking duo with another player. A simple game history and replaying their 1-2 games will make it obvious how this player reached at no. Of position. But doesn’t look like they get moderated. Why is this the case? I can understand that it’s impossible for moderators/BGA to ensu...