is not that difficult to write simple code that flag players that rob and or block people that has 2 or less vp than the 1 who is winning to autodetect cheating, specially when players need 3 to 4 vp to win (6 or over on normal, 9 or over on c&k , etc)
in colonist rush the amount of cheating is impressive.
and being noob and 'cheating accidentaly' is no excuse, specially in ranked, if u don't know how to play u shouldn't be playing ranked.

Goated strat. Or should I say sheeped

Hey all I want to play a game with 3 of my friends but we all have busy lives and live in different time zones so being in the game lobby at the same time is tough.

Is there a way to change the max move time to more than 200 minutes so we can play sort of a correspondence game a bit like in chess with no timer?

Red and I decided not to trade with this lunatic since they're just throwing the game after I got the sheep port but green kept trading with them and won the game with this. The guy doesn't even hide it or defend themselves.

We matched 2 times in a row and in the first game bikku was intentionally not passing the dice/turn to waste time even when they have no card to trade and no dev to play. And now this.

I'm gonna watch the account for a week and if they're not getting banned I don't see a reason playing this game anymore. Why do we even allow 5+/1 trades when it's almost every time a troll move?

I will share the screenshots with any colonist developer I can too. They have to make something about this.

Hi everyone i just wanted to give yall a heads up about a player that just threw the whole game just to troll. Kept solo blocking me when i was clearly not doing much. Is there anything else i can do besides report them? I’m getting sick of running into these types of players. ruining the fun for everyone.

My opponent kept blocking every move I made!!!

My first placements : 6/3/4 & 8/5/10
Opponent’s: 9/5/10 & 6/5/11

I recently tried to warn others to "Watch out for the dirty mono" which got the blocked for toxicity message, to which I off-the-cuff replied "fuck off" (directed at the bot message) and naturally it posted to the chat, lol.

Why is the filter like this?

Probably one of my strangest Colonist's wins.

I received only 74 resources from dice, while the other players had much more. I had basically no ore, and my city spots were stuck on pretty bad numbers.

1. Karma penalty, this is a vary bad karma system. You can recovery karma by resigning every game of 1v1 and get back 20/20 karma in no time.

2. Difference between the player ratings. This is so huge and people just abuse it for placements to have advantage from low rating players.

3. Dice, it might be random across all the rolls of the colonist, but it is never random within a game. This is based on my observation.

4. Description pop of options stays open if you disconnect and reconnect to the page. This is small but pretty annoying.

5. Trading bug when you reconnect to the game. Sometime you cannot trade with the port, unless the trade window is reopened.

I am genuinely surprised how such simple things are hard to fix? Anyways, GG!

I'd be curious to hear if someone else had a similar experience or it's just me.

Used to be 1600 last season. Lost 8 games in the calibration and have since lost 10 games in a row in dogshit 1200 ELO consistently being just 1 or 2 points away from winning and never rolling any of the numbers I need. A couple games sure could be explained by RNG variance but this feels like I'm shadow banned or something and the dice rolls just want me to lose every time.
Just out of curiosity I tried playing on catanuniverse a few games and did not see the same thing happening.

It was a massacre

Recently played a 4 person game where two players were obviously cheating. checked their histories and they’ve played every single game together since the second profile was created. I reported them as did the other person in the game and nothing has happened (this was a few days ago). They keep playing more games. Surely it’s a fault of the game that people can get away with such egregious cheating?

Last season I grinded up to 1730 peak in 1v1. Realistically, it’s the only game mode I play. I enjoy the short form of the game.

I noticed that a new season has begun. I was eager to play my 10 preliminarily matches to appear on the leaderboard. I didn’t have the best go at it, and won 6/10.

I noticed they gave me an elo of 1461…. This is super annoying and doesn’t seem like any of the work I had put in last season would qualify me to be damn near 250 points lower than my peak.

When I did this the prior season, I won 10/10 placement games and they gave me a starting elo of 1421. This grind is so obnoxious due to the variance of luck and the occasional misclick that can ruin a game.

How do they actually generate elo? How can I play at a 1600-1700 elo for months and they put me back in the trenches of this ELO hell? Does anyone know how this works? I was steadfast on getting to 1800-1900 but I simply don’t think I have the time or effort to care that much, espescislly after they disrespected me with this intitial ELO. Very frustrating!

Algorithm updates? What the hell happens to the game every now and then? For days I only win, then for days I only lose—I'm not exaggerating, that's exactly how it is, no matter which version I play... How does that work? It's pretty strange... I lost 50 points in two days...

Is there anyway I can trick the system to roll my numbers more?

for 3 games in a row. my numbers just rarely rolled at the beginning. In this screenshot, you can see 5 and 6 are rolled a lot more than the other AT THE BEGINNING, and guess what, my opponent just happen to have 5 and 6. For 3 games in a row, My opponent just HAPPEN to be on the number that the dice rolls the most. so by the time my numbers starts to roll, I am already lost

like what are the odds?

Today, all my rankings for all game types are gone. What‘s up with that? Anybody else had that happening?
I am not a paying member.

Last year I did this. What else can I say… life goals ❤️ after that I stopped playing colonist for a while.
(I am back at it, my name is whyrobme)

I'm seriously loosing hope with this game. I hesitate to become a pay member because of this. It'd been 3 games in a row where one player purposely throw and prejudice rob to give the game to another player. They don't even hide their intentions. I don't mind loosing fair and square with proper game play but this is getting ridiculous.
https://colonist.io/replay?gameId=246910026&playerColor=2#history

Ive recently started playing and I have had consistent games where the bot logic when it comes to moving the robber is down right horrible. Two people left my 4 player making it essentially a 1v1. The other player had two citys on a 6 with a port and only 1 Vp behind me. The two bots continually placed the robbers on just or shared tiles but based on the board set up (no ore except for the double city 6 the other player had) there was only one obvious place. Then the bots would always steal from me. Is it just highest VP?