Feeling very disappointed. Anyone else?

[snkrt]

First of all: I have been playing the old browser-game "Play Catan" for years, which had its faults, but was generally working and above all: had a great community. And then they shut it down because, as it was announced: there is something better in development.

Now I am giving Catan Universe a shot after a few years of development. I am very much disappointed. First of all: the old Catan had a community, one was able to pick a game, see who is in there before joining it and above all: I was able to see which games are open for players. Now I am being connected by the machine with others on the servers. Feels very isolated.

The second great thing was Multi-Catan: the seafarer-game where 6 ppl discovered the world in the limitation of 72 rounds to play. People LOVED that one! With the new Catan Universe I am quite shocked to find there is no Multi-Catan! A lot of scenarios for sure, but the one gameplay that let the old game stood out was not implemented??? Leaves a big questionmark. People are asking for it on the internet for two years now and nothing was done there.

I am wondering if any of the developers and designers on this game have ever played the old catan game? Seems not.

The second critique – and this is a big one: This game is running on high CPU on both of my machines (I am a motion designer, so I have good machines). I am playing a lot of other heavy computer games, but this one is really simple, so why the hell is it so CPU hungry? There must be some things running in infinite loops in the background... Also, there is no option to be found to turn on vsync – a very common feature nowadays.

On the iPad the game design feels totally besides the point: Everytime I want to chat, the whole screen is covered with a huge chat-window. I cant see the game anymore, so I have to switch between game and chat. The same goes for the trading screen. This is extremely un-intuitive and annoying. It should at least be a semi-transparent overlay if it needs to cover the whole screen.

Third critique: I have been playing around 20 games now. Or at least trying to play, because I got disconnected quite randomly and the game tells me that I was not reacting or that the game was suddenly closed but there was no inherent feedback as to what was happening. It happens to other players as well very often and of course: elo and karma are going down with it. This is unacceptible for a game that depends on these values in matching players together automatically.

So: I will never understand why a game that was running perfectly well in a browser would be abandoned just so for something that was so badly done that it was abondoned as well and after years of waiting and good hopes this is what we end up with.

Anybody else feeling disappointed?

I mean there are more complicated games out there that run better on machines, have a better design and above all: cherish a community. If that is too much to ask of game developers in 2020, than why the hell not just stay with browser and spare yourself the difficulties of a cross-platform if you can't deliver it?

[Stroom]

Totally agree. PlayCatan was better in every aspect. And the developers have shown again and again that they do not plan to make the game better for the old players.

[dsmfirefem]

I very much agree. Spot on!

[wanglepop]

Totally agree, I have no idea how this atrocity exists

[FadedShade]

This game has been broken forever, play a bit more and i KNOW you will find plenty more to add to the list of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that this useless pile of junk presents you with. I do an almost daily complaint on the boards, btu they dont seem to care about any of their paying customers. I wish someone at Kosmos would realise this and get their license back from these inbred clueless morons, that cant code a game above a high school level. Hell, most facebook junk games are better than this steaming pile of turds

[SheepyPoo]

Yes, it's sad that the officially licensed game platform performs worse than other Catan alternatives on the net. Although the interface for this planform is SO clean, I will probably want to shift to other online alternatives as the frustration is too much

[Ta$te]

+1. Lost 100 ELO in two days because of bugged game.

[76561198156823672]

I agree totally.

As far as this being CPU intrusive, my macbook is about to create fire! My legs are burning. It only gets this hot when I am rendering video. It doesn't make sense what is such a CPU hog.

[snkrt]

And as we observe: no admin feels any need to respond to this.

[Potätr]

it's total BS how frequently the dice rolls in the AI's favor. They get recources each turn. I get nothing, and just have to pass awful trade deals