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I adjusted from zoom level 7 before to 14 after and now it’s more or less the same.

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Friendly robber was recently introduced as an option. It follows the variant described in the rules and can be activated in set up.

After the update, the dice rolls became so unpredictable that I don't understand how this is even possible? In one game, crazy spam 11 or 5, in another 3 or 4 plays more often than 6 and 8. That’s spam! When one of the players takes two identical adjacent numbers, he can win in 10 minutes. Please c...

The original Catan has no ELO, so why would you play against someone based on ELO? Yes, but if you’re playing against a friend who is good at the game and a friend that is bad at the game, wouldn’t your rob the good player at the beginning and there’s no other way to determine who is most likely to...

You could look at the game log and see if a development/world has been played right before.

The sample space for 2d6 has 36 outcomes (11 distinct). The sample space for a shuffled deck of cards is 52!, which is significantly larger.

Another way to think of it is that a draw is like 0.5 win and 0.5 loss. So, if you are 600 elo and opponent is 400, a win gains you 5 points and a loss costs you 15. One win and one draw is +5 -15 = -10. Half of that is -5. This example calculation backs up the intuitive explanations of previous pos...

vegasjj wrote: ↑14 May 2024, 21:32 Appears the dice totals equal 100 rolls to me- and with zero 8s. Very broken system indeed

The end game stats show the percentage of rolls that were each number, so they will add up to ~100. However, the number of rolls is lower, you can find that by adding up the # of turns for each player.

It seems like it’s working as expected. You start with 2 workers. Place the yellow tile with die 6 on a 6, still have 2w. Then, use the die 3 to sell goods (4), spending one worker and gaining one from the yellow tile, this ending at 2.

It only gives one worker, not two.

Hope this helped.