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• Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2024)

  - Best way to play settlers of catan online: https://colonist.io I also contribute to open source when I get the chance to. You can find my github at https://github.com/meronogbai. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Real-Time Settlers of Catan

  Hello, I'm Demi from https://colonist.io team. I love this. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Please help a beginner learn strategy for 1v1s

  Hi everyone, I'm a beginner catan player. I play exclusively 1v1s against a friend but they always beat me. (Currently playing 1v1s on colonist.io to practice) I know the basics of the game like all the cards and ways to get points. I've tried the ore/wheat strategy and the 2:1 port strategy but I don't know which strategies to use when and how to use them effectively. I always seem to fall behind in one aspect... Source: over 1 year ago

• We built an entire game with graphics almost exclusively generated by DALL-E 3 (open source)

  There are many other commercial projects similar to this (colonist.io landover.io etc). None of them are open source though. This has been done in the past extensively (see freeciv.org, or Terasology, or 0 AD etc). Source: over 1 year ago

• Asking to disable AdBlock, still won't start

  I have whitelisted "colonist.io" on both tracking related Firefox extensions, I use since a long time – no classic adblocker, one is DuckDuckGo privacy, the other is "I don't care abot cookies". So I get served ads on the site, all worked well for weeks. But now it says I have to "disable abblocker"... (Downloading another browser is not an option for me.). Source: over 1 year ago

• How to Do Great Work

  You seem passionate about it, so you should definitely keep going > Hasbro is litigious > I’m not going to charge without getting sue I don't think this is a thing ? There's this website which is a web Catan game ( https://colonist.io/ ) which is at least as niche as Scrabble, and they seem to be doing well. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• PSA : Unless you track your plays, you have probably played a game less than you think

  Four player games against bots at https://colonist.io/ . TBH, the games would go a lot faster if the bots were faster. Source: over 1 year ago

• Colonist.io

  Does anyone play colonist.io? I play cities and knights on there all the time and love it. Always looking for people to play with!!! Source: over 1 year ago

• Advice on my "diversity essay"?

  I play on the appstore version but every now and then I do use colonist.io! And that is good to know, I wish I added it as an activity but I do hope to find a place to talk about it in my secondaries where applicable. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Settler Two

  The Paired Players system was introduced when they added 5-6 player support to Catan Universe (though a version did exist in Starfarers, prior). It is intended to replace the old Special Building Phase. As for why, I can only guess. But I suppose they deemed old SBP too clunky to implement online (though colonist.io managed). Paired Players I think was meant to speed things up. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Getting too tired of being in second place. Any tips to level up to get to winning are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

  Some tips that might help from someone with >2000 games on colonist.io:. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Lost with 10 points!

  Solves for the case here (on who's winning) Also, please take a look at the 3rd and 4th places - cities are the tiebreaker. I wonder if colonist.io or catan has set rules on how to do a tiebreaker. Is it available for us to access? I play games in series with my folks, and we rank each player in each of the games to decide the overall series winner. Tie breakers matter! Source: almost 2 years ago

• Who wins??

  I used to agree with you. In person we played the 5-6 player map with 3-4 players. It felt good not having to run into each other. Now that I play colonist.io I have learned to love the smaller map and how much deeper the game becomes on how you play. You will pick sub-optimal plays purposely to block others. Working with others becomes way more important. Hiding your strength is important. With too large of a map... Source: almost 2 years ago

• This is so junk. Losing massive ELO while winning. There’s no rhyme or reason.

  I really wish colonist.io had Knights & Cities and Seafarers. Source: almost 2 years ago

• This is so junk. Losing massive ELO while winning. There’s no rhyme or reason.

  Stop playing on that and play on colonist.io with the rest of civilization. Source: almost 2 years ago

• My digital version of Azul is finally live on https://www.azultiles.com!

  Art is original, Thank you for thinking it's copied :) and also colonist.io (Catan online game) is allowed to use the name catan in their descriptions and such. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Why is the colonist.io iPad/ios app so painfully bad?

  Why is the colonist.io iPad/ios app so bad? Source: almost 2 years ago

• Why the hell do people frequently leave multiplayer games?!?

  You can make it like that a the AI takes over the player who left (quit, crashed, etc). And also use the AI based on ELO level so it wouldn't be too hard. That way you still continue without a huge penalty. Yes you would still be in a disadvantage but it wouldn't be that big. You can also make it like that a player who left, could take over the AI again. (For example: colonist.io has a system like that which works... Source: almost 2 years ago

• How Many of you Play the actual board game?

  Colonist.io is a free website that works decently well too. it's my favorite way to play. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How Many of you Play the actual board game?

  With colonist.io too you can set a turn timer. If I'm playing with friends we like playing on fast, which is 1 minute per turn (but you get more time the more things you do - like successfully trade, build roads, buy dev cards). just the fact the timer is there helps people focus when its their turn. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Please help me beat my sister!!!

  Probably just play more: https://colonist.io/. Source: almost 2 years ago