I'm new and I thought I knew what I was doing but I guess not...

[bookbaby1]

I was playing in my first game with real people and I was the first person to get 10 points. I thought I had won but play continued until someone took my longest road and those two extra points gave them 11. Then the game ended and said they had won. I thought 10 was the limit. Am I just clueless?

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Some scenarios can have different victory point as win conditions... you can set them in the singleplayer and custommatch mode (when creating a game)... in-game you can see them in the settings menu..

glhf

[USM [CM]]

Originally posted by bookbaby1:

I was playing in my first game with real people and I was the first person to get 10 points. I thought I had won but play continued until someone took my longest road and those two extra points gave them 11. Then the game ended and said they had won. I thought 10 was the limit. Am I just clueless?

You most likely played the scenario "Harbormaster". The Harbormaster rewards the building of settlements and cities at the harbor intersections. A settlement or city located at a harbor intersection is worth 1 or 2 harbor point, respectively. The first player to have 3 harbor points receives 2 special victory pots for being the "Harbormaster". Due to the special rules the games also ends at 11 VPs.
Detailed descriptions on the different scenarios can also be found in the in game almanac.

[XDude]

Also it has to be your turn in order to win I believe.

"I thought I had won but play continued until someone took my longest road"

Did you acquire the longest road because someone else's road was broken when it wasn't your turn?