300 Hours of Colonist Taught Me THIS About People

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[shadesonbroadway]

Love this type of content. Well put together video, and would love to see more. Great examples of tips used in actual games played!

[DevoManiac]

I love this. The competitor in me gets frustrated when others are able to freely talk to each other to "hive-mind" the lead that I gained from strategic placement away from me (especially when "house rules" in IRL games, which is how most of us learned to play in the first place, usually dictate "no table-talking"). But the game-maker and game-enjoyer in me knows that not only keeping this feature, but encouraging it, adds an entire dimension to the strategy and fun of the game (a la a game like "Mafia", which is entirely table-talk, but also EXTREMELY fun and strategic at the same time because of that fact alone). Keeping a feature like this as well acts to build a community of people with personalities that interact with each other, instead of a player base full of robots that just pass each other by.

While it can sometimes be exhausting to have to work a little harder in the chat to strategize toward your win, it does make the game as a whole FAR more interesting and fun in the end (which I've heard several times firsthand by players saying "what a crazy game" or "that was amazing" in a highly-active chat...clearly they are enjoying the game more because of it). And I can appreciate a developer that doesn't "air on the safe side" or shy away from having a chat feature in ranked (at the cost of only creating more work for themselves by having to moderate it) to make things more interesting for everyone playing. Well done on these decisions you have made for your product (and standing by them), they are clearly working for you. Keep it up...

[worthplayingfor]

i would love if colonist added a whisper feature.

[Blasterman]

A feedback about the balanced Dice. Even though you input a balanced dice when it comes to the almighty 7 this actually doesn't work well in 1 vs 1 games - where the importance of the 7 is even bigger than 3/4 players games (where multiple players are targetted).

Until someone reaches 3 points it's "no attacks" (with 7s or Knights). Then when we get into the actually game, the balanced 7 works like this:
First person throws a 7, the second person throws a 7 almost immediately afterwards. And then no one throws a 7 for a while. Second person Builds an advantage and uses that advantage to buy few dev cards - usually Knights.
Then the first person throws a Seven and the second person throws a Knight, followed by a Seven in same turn. And then it's game over.
I find myself almost guessing when a 7 is going to appear (usually it's immediately after the first player reaches 3 points). So I often wait for the other player to go first.

Summing up: I don't like when we tamper with statistics (balancing). Sure it's well intended, but players can easily exploit it, removing any upside of balancing it. Catan (or Colonist) is a mix of strategy and luck. We need to learn how to deal with the luck aspect. And people will still complain about it no matter what...

[KaranBardhan]

There was a game where i was in the lead for the entire game and I didn't get blocked because I successfully pit the remaining three players against each other

[seanmacaull]

I would love if the devs didn't punish players for unsubbing from them. I insubbed recently and the last 8 games in a row I would roll a 7 then the opponent wouldn't roll one. It happened for me zero times in those games.

[Ggdivhjkjl]

A mate and I have a mutual friend who's easily susceptible to table talk. When we play together we always both try to convince him the other guy is winning.

[passdoutcouchpotatos]

Please fix the audio Gating, i can only hear in the right ear and it sucks

[indiewizard]

I don't think the title of the video and the content is related

[Blasterman]

Honestly, I can't handle irrational players. So, when I am playing online, I ONLY play 1 vs 1 (and I do a fine job on that).
Also, I am glad you decided to keep the landscape view of the mobile APP.

[fabioj-]

Although this video is cool, I gave it a dislike because the game is terribly programmed. Fix the dice to pre 2024. Yall changed it at the start of the year.