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Cities and Knights
Cities and Knights Expansion is out!!! Get it at the store https://colonist.io/store.html
Add PayPal as alternative to buy Maps and Expansions
Not everyone likes to hand out their card details.
User Ranking/Leaderboards (ELO system)
Something like an Elo rating system or so.
Player management: Add players as favorited/friends
I have found some really great people in games and wish I could play with them again. Maybe its coming with user profiles but it would cool to be able to have ...
Add special build phase for 5-6 player
The 5-6 player extension for Catan has a "special build phase" where all players can build at the end of anyone's turn (only using cards in hand, no trades to other ...
Add numbers to resource cards
If we have 4 wood cards with us, it would really help if there was a small indication that we have 4 cards of that resource. Maybe just a small number "4" on the ...
Pause Game Feature
In a private game, allow players to request a timeout to the other players in the session. then resuming when ready.
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PRESS "P" TO PAUSE THE GAME, ...
Seafarers Expansion
Would love to play the original Catan Expansion!
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admin update: Seafarers is out! ...
Option for additional time for initial build phase
The game host could choose a time limit for the build phase which is separate to the time limit for the remainder of the game.
For example, you could have a fast ...
Bots should refuse to trade with high point winning player
https://www.reddit.com/r/Catan/comments/cpeobu/colonistio_play_free_online_settlers_of_catan/ews1mxr/
Mute and Report players
Originally suggested by THanz on 2019-10-29.
Implemented in v87
admin update: Report/mute tutorial in attached image
Randomize Tiles and Numbers.
Please add the ability in game setup to have options of what you can randomize like tiles, ports and numbers. If you dont want to allow that, then please add ...
Option to select a different dice system
How does your random number generator work? Are the seeds randomized enough? Very often it seems that the same numbers are being rolled multiple times, 3, 4, even 5 ...
Filter Lobby by Game Type (Map, Speed, Number of players, etc)
I'm only interested in playing public 4-player games with hidden bank cards, either fast or very fast. at high traffic times I'm scrolling through soo many games in ...
Longest Road Bug: Explained Better?
The issue with longest road awarding the +2 VP inconsistently occurs when the player with the longest road loses it by getting their road length cut by a settlement ...
Add more log in methods other than Google
Is there a way to create an account not via google authentication? Most sites offer the option to signup via email as well. In addition, is there a way to play with ...
Done
Allow players to set their default color
Allow players to set on their profiles their default color. An addition to this would be to let players rate the colors in case they join a room/game where their ...
Not enough resource to give to all should mean no resources distributed
When there are not enough resources in the bank to distribute to ALL parties, the game should not distributed.
Example: Red has 2 cities on a (6) wood. Blue has a ...
Bots shouldn't build too much unnecessary roads
It could create more settlements with all that resources
http://prntscr.com/p1hzx5
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admin edit: Fixed in v99. Bots shouldn't build so ...
Add confirmation button / double click
2 possibilities:
-for main actions (BUILD, END TURN, BUY DEV)
-for initial placements
Problem this feature solves => Missclicking and double clicking
How to ...
Keyboard shortcuts [PRESS SPACEBAR TO ROLL DICE & END TURN]
ROL DICE: SPACEBAR
END TURN: SPACEBAR
PAUSE: P
MUTE SOUNDS: M
VOLUME: UP/DOWN ARROWS ↑/↓
https://i.imgur.com/4NhWV9J.jpg
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I think ...
Room: Kicked people should stay kicked and not rejoin
Feature request: Not sure if it's easy right now, but if we kick someone out of the room before a game starts, it would be great if they can't immediately re-enter ...
Rematch function does not work
Nothing happens when you click the rematch button. Cannot hold a rematch.
We should be able to accept a trade even if we rejected it, if it's still up on the screen
Since you insist on leaving the trade dialogue up after rejecting it, we should be able to accept it after (allow us to change our minds). This would only be fair ...
Option to reset zoom to home?
Not sure if it already exists, but if the map becomes out of view there should be an option to reset the zoom so that the map is centered back in the middle again
Done
Add karma filter setting when creating a new game
Create an option to include only players with karma settings of 100%, 90%, 80% and so forth
Bots give away when a player is leading due to VPs
Bots always steal from the player leading, which gives away who has hidden vps. Bots see the total score despite VPs not showing for the other players, that means VP ...
CPU/GPU usage optimisation
The game is perfect, but while playing on the laptop, the battery discharges quickly and the fan tries to fly away from it.
Make robber more visible
Robber is hard to see sometimes, especially when playing larger boards.
AFK / inactive Players Should Be Kicked after 2 rounds
Player will AFK and others must sit through the clock every turn. It's often vindictive. Players should be kicked and possibly docked 1 karma for such action.
Done
Display if Karma System is active or not
The notification for the Karma System (if the penalty is active or not) gets lost in the chat log. It would be helpful if that was displayed somewhere other than the ...
Player Profile Info not Loading
Chrome on PC.
When I see mine or other player profile Info it appears blank even it says palayer not logged een when I now for certain I'm, or the other player is.
Please add room speed back to the lobby
There's no way to easily distinguish rooms, click in to the rooms we want to be in or play with the names we usually see.
Pay to remove ads
Can we have an option to pay to remove ads?
Game with no ad banners at the sides: https://prnt.sc/1gbc7jh
Super slow mode should extend time for robbing, rolling the dice, and playing a knight.
In super slow mode, you have 3 hours for each turn but only 30 seconds to play a knight. You also only have 10 seconds to roll the dice. These are drastic differences ...
Done
volume slider
sometimes you are watching some Unbox Therapy (Youtube) or some Sport game while playing Colonist withtout removing the sound, but its too loud. I would suggest to ...
See other players' responses to trades
In real-life Catan, you see other players' reactions to trades, which adds leverage to the trade.
For instance, a leading player wants to get brick for a ...
Done
Cannot click "Start Game"
Unable to click start game after all players are ready
allow counter trades to be accepted
the active player should be able to accept a counter offer
admin edit: fixed in v94. Going live 11/11
JUAN
Bot trading bug/request thread
If a player leaves the game for whatever reason and a bot takes over, people can abuse the bot for very favourable trades. This can ruin any kind of balance in the ...
Option to switch back to the old design
Hi, I love the game! But I personally find all the new graphics really distracting. I loved the simplicity of the older design. It would be awesome if there was an ...
Remove Balanced Dice as Default Setting
Can we please make the default random dice and make balanced dice optional please.
The game upon which it is based is played with physical dice which is never ...
Done
If no one has a resource, when trading it shouldn't tell you "Error: No one has that..."
It's not up to the AI running the game to tell players that no one has a resource requested. It's a players job to try to keep track. As it is, it can save a person ...
Done
When placing the robber and accidentally selecting a player with 0 resources, don't penalize
One thought, and it may have been mentioned before, but when you place a robber on a position that has multiple players, you shouldn't be penalized with getting 0 ...
Disabled Adblocker Doesn't Work
I've allowed colonist.io to use popups and ads and it still won't let me play ranked games
Done
Spectate games: search or jump to one directly
With thousands of games running, it's impossible to find a friend's game. If they provide the 4 digit ID, there is no way to join that game directly.
We should be ...
Done