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 being built AND there is another player's qualifying road that takes the crown. I believe the issue is the how and when the program checks for awarding longest road. When this happened in my game, and then the original player retook possession of the longest road title, was re-awarded the +2 VP, but I was still kept my awarded +2 VP. I would upload more screenshots, but only one is allowed.
Edit: This thread now includes the road counting bug as well, where the longest road path is being ignored and counted incorrectly. -Austin
Comments: 111
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10 Aug, '19
Stroom MergedPlayer A has 5 roads. Player B builds in the middle of that road. No-one has a 5+ length road anymore but player A still seems to have the longest road.
Also in cases where the longest road switches hands during this cut-off, the longest road indicator does not seem to get removed from that player unless the player who has the longest road NOW, extends his road. -
22 Aug, '19
Matt MergedThis happened to me tonight against a bot. I have a screen capture to prove it.
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22 Aug, '19
Esqarrouth Admin MergedThen prove it :)
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27 Aug, '19
None A. None MergedI believe the rules state that the player that holds the longest road keeps the longest road until it is taken from them by another player getting more roads not just tying for longest road.
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24 Sep, '19
Param MergedSame thing happened. I also have screen shot. How to upload?
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28 Sep, '19
Esqarrouth Admin MergedParam, you can upload to imgur, dropbox and share a link
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29 Oct, '19
Esqarrouth Admin Mergedhttps://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/631340849975787520/638693273631850501/shortroad.JPG
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21 Nov, '19
John MergedI've seen this happen. It even still has the bot (and my player) showing longest road on the win screen. I believe it happens when you cut off longest road so no one has longest road anymore (it fails to remove the flag from that player)
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06 Jan, '20
Esqarrouth Merged -
08 Feb, '20
Esqarrouth Admin MergedAnother scenario https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/637403643234222109/675011388204384286/pr2.jpg
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08 Feb, '20
Esqarrouth Admin Merged"The longest road bonus isn't reevaluated after the road is broken" (suggested by H on 2019-12-01), including upvotes (3) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
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05 Mar, '20
leso Mergedhappened to me too sorry no screenshot, had 5 went down to 4... the other player won with 5 roads we both still had 2 vp for long road
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01 Apr, '20
Saul Mergedhttps://imgur.com/a/By0Rk3Y
Same to me. Blue didn't lose the 2 VPs after their longest road was broken. -
01 Apr, '20
tan MergedHappened to me too. I was very sad cause I was going to win after getting the 2 VPs, but it never happened.
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02 Apr, '20
heady Mergedi have also had this happen! thank you for posting
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08 Apr, '20
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09 Apr, '20
Martyn MergedLook at Black in image to see bug.
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14 Apr, '20
Sasha Wilde Admin Merged"Longest Road Bug" (suggested by Martyn on 2020-04-09), including upvotes (4) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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14 Apr, '20
Sasha Wilde Admin Merged"Bug: Longest road bug, if you break the longest road in between they still carry the points" (suggested by aJona on 2020-04-02), including upvotes (9) and comments (4), was merged into this suggestion.
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18 Apr, '20
AlexInAuburn MergedHave not seen that one before... do you have any recollection of how the longest road was achieved by DHS#0035? Maybe he achieved it using a single road build, or by using a road building card, maybe when greens road was interrupted by black?
Those little details make it a lot easier for the devs to track down the bugs. Thanks for posting this. -
24 Apr, '20
Matt Beckett MergedI ran into this the other day as well. Red had longest road, I (black) built in the middle of it, so now blue had the longest road but they both had the points for it.
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27 Apr, '20
Jim Mergedsee picture... green has a road 13 long, but only counted as 12
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28 Apr, '20
John MergedIs this new? I added two more road segments and instead of calculating my road as 11 (going up to the top of the map) it calculated my road length as 10 (going around the 2 brick). This is a bug.
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30 Apr, '20
Sasha Wilde Admin MergedIssue description: Longest road doesn't transfer when it is broken by another player.
Browser & Operating System: Chrome, Mac OS
Size of browser (use http://howbigismybrowser.com/): 1278x1278
Screenshot: (please attach screenshot if possible): https://imgur.com/a/l1Dqvzq
Steps to reproduce issue: Player A has longest road. Player B breaks longest road by placing a settlement on top of Player A's road. Player A keeps the points.
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01 May, '20
Trevor MergedGame says I only have 12 roads, but I actually have 13 in the picture below.
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01 May, '20
Matías MergedIn this game Uva (black) was given the longest path, when according to our accounts Roconamaysol (red) has the longest path. It's okay?
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01 May, '20
Marina Dunets MergedI (black player) broke the longest road of red player, his VP were kept (although his longest road became 4 pieces only). Then blue player built the road longer - 5 pieces and got 2 VP for this. But VPs of red player remained the same: two players had the longest road at the same time till the end of the game!
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02 May, '20
John MergedYes. And reported before. Not sure why it hasn't been fixed.
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08 May, '20
JohnThere are multiple bugs with longest road, 3 now at least.
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08 May, '20
John MergedBlue had longest road (5) taken by orange (7). I had built 5 segments an as expected didn't have LR. Blue built a settlement splitting the road, and as expected orange retained longest road (5). I added a 4th road segment to my upper road and it handed me longest road !? (WRONG). Even with my 5 segment road I shouldn't have it.
[conceptually even if oranges road was split into two at 3-4, then blue should have gotten longest road back, a they were the last to have it; but there was no rea -
13 May, '20
TrevorThis just happened in a game as well - but the odd thing here is 2 people were awarded the 2 victory points for the longest road.
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13 May, '20
Sasha Wilde Admin"longest road Bug can't count right" (suggested by Sandro on 2020-04-29), including upvotes (3) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
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13 May, '20
Sasha Wilde Admin"Longest Road Incorrect Count" (suggested by E on 2020-04-25), including upvotes (7) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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13 May, '20
Sasha Wilde Admin"Longest Road Bug" (suggested by John on 2020-04-18), including upvotes (4) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
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15 May, '20
Benjamin Lewis MergedNot sure if this a different rule but my understanding is that if a road has a loop and 2 other 1 road segments coming off it the road total should be 8 not 6. I just lost a game because it didn't count my longest road. here is the link https://colonist.io/#RMdV
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18 May, '20
Tom MergedThe longest road was set at 11not 12, presumably because your algorithm found the loop.
See attached image. Roads that should have been included in the count have been marked with a red pen through. -
21 May, '20
ANXPARA MergedA loop with 2 more individual roads coming out of it does not produce an 8-long road. It produces at most a 7-segment-long road.
If you try to travel from the first jutting road to the second one, you won't be able to make it utilize all 6 roads. At least one can't be included. -
24 May, '20
Muo MergedWhen given longest road being cut through by an enemy settlement.
The player did not loose +2 VP. -
27 May, '20
Elid90 MergedCount the number of roads for red. It displays red has 9 consecutive roads, but it’s actually 11. Longest road was taken by another player once they reached 10 consecutive roads after the screenshot was taken.
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27 May, '20
CBiscuitThis just happened again. Even though the longest road was split up with a settlement and someone else took over longest road... the person who had the longest road BEFORE the settlement was built kept the longest road badge and kept the 2 additional VP despite not having the longest road. There were two players who had the longest road "badge"
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28 May, '20
Ben21 Merged+1 for this issue (ie longest road not taking the 'long way' round a hex if that hex is completely looped).
I can email a screenshot to confirm as I cant add an image to this comment -
30 May, '20
GET MergedThe game didn't register a circle as a road and only saw 11 connections instead of 15.
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30 May, '20
Ben21 Merged+1 for this issue. I also have a screenshot if required
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02 Jun, '20
Trash Developer MergedJust so you're aware - even if their code was calculating the road length correctly (it's not), your road length would be 14 here and not 15. In order to do a full loop of the circle you'd have to count your road on 6-4 wheat/brick twice, which is equally invalid.
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02 Jun, '20
Trash Developer Mergedit appears to be ignoring the long way around the 6 wood hex + a 3-road tail in favor of closing the loop around the 6 wood hex, because their algorithm is bad
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03 Jun, '20
dwg42 Merged2 lonest roads - wrong guy won 06/0320 3:40AM central time - dwg42 host
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05 Jun, '20
Fatboi MergedHi,
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Loving the site, and the game. Would like to report a bug.
In the previous game this happened where black had longest route and got cut off by green. Afaik the longest route should be lost when this happens but black kept the 2 VPs. Black also kept the 2 VPs for longest route after being overtaken in longest route. This resulted in 2 players being awarded longest route.
This is not just an ingame display bug, the postgame stats menu also showed black at 8 points whilst he should onl -
07 Jun, '20
jn Mergedsame happened to me
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08 Jun, '20
Pete MergedSaw this exact same bug last night. Black connected 10 roads, but was still calculated at 9. The game insisted on counting the complete loop around 9-Wheat. Had nothing to do with a road being broken by an opposing settlement. https://imgur.com/cT93s7l
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08 Jun, '20
Mike MergedHello, I had the same issue today.
Longest road was cut off. It correctly changed how many roads the person had (lowered it to only 4), but it still showed them getting two victory points as well as Longest Road being highlighted.
Side note:
Later in the game, another player overtook the person with the real longest road and it correctly changed who had longest road between them, but it still showed the player who's longest road was cut off, as having longest road as well. -
11 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"[BUG] Longest route VPs still awarded to the player after being cut off." (suggested by Fatboi on 2020-06-05), including upvotes (3) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"Longest road count bug" (suggested by Tom on 2020-05-18), including upvotes (7) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"2 longest road glitch - fix please" (suggested by dwg42 on 2020-06-03), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"Bug: VPs for the longest not lost after an enemy settlement was built on that road" (suggested by Muo on 2020-05-24), including upvotes (2) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"Bug - VPs for the longest road for 2 players at the same time" (suggested by Marina Dunets on 2020-05-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"BUG: When you break someone's longest road, they still keep the VPs" (suggested by Stroom on 2019-08-10), including upvotes (74) and comments (20), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"BUG: longest road bug handed to me when someone else had it already" (suggested by player on 2020-05-08), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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13 Jun, '20
Castor#1325 MergedIn a game today, I interrupted an opponent's road, leading to a couple of issues.
Call this specific opponent A. Before I built my settlement, A had a length-8 road. Everyone else each had a length-4 road. My settlement split A's road into two length-4 pieces. The result was that this opponent kept longest road since their road (length 4) was still the longest.
I believe this is a bug. A road of length less than 5 cannot be the longest road, so I would expect A to lose longest road and for -
16 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"Road with a loop should include the loop" (suggested by Benjamin Lewis on 2020-05-15), including upvotes (2) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"Improve longest road counting" (suggested by Trevor on 2020-05-01), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"Colonist... longest road defect" (suggested by Jim on 2020-04-27), including upvotes (4) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"BUG: longest consecutive road was not detected" (suggested by Elid90 on 2020-05-27), including upvotes (3) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"Interrupted longest road" (suggested by Castor#1325 on 2020-06-13), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"BUG: Road length calculated wrong (I have 11 not 10)" (suggested by player on 2020-04-28), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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19 Jun, '20
knux400 MergedPlayer in our game had a road that was 13 roads long, but the game only counted 11. See attached image.
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21 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"Roads Miscounted??" (suggested by knux400 on 2020-06-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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22 Jun, '20
Bogu MergedThe road length should be 14 (as seen in the picture) but it's being calculated as 11.
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23 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"Wrong road length calculation" (suggested by Bogu on 2020-06-22), including upvotes (2) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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24 Jun, '20
JenWe experienced a longest road bug, possibly different from the others already mentioned. In our game, Red correctly had the longest road with a length of 10. Green also had 10, but built the 10th road after Red, so correctly did not get the longest road. However, when Red built another road (not extending their longest road), the longest road was incorrectly rewarded to Green.
https://imgur.com/a/CqAL3Dh
(Besides this bug, our experience has been amazing! Thank you!) -
25 Jun, '20
Austin Admin"Game only gave me 11 roads and I should have 12" (suggested by Donna Kirby on 2019-12-20), including upvotes (14) and comments (4), was merged into this suggestion.
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25 Jun, '20
Roye MergedAfter the update that adds the longest road screen when someone gets it, when a player should lose longest road because of his road getting cut off, he doesn't. Later when a different player got longest road, the game would show both of them having longest road, and the longest road screen switched around between them constantly until the end of the game.
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28 Jun, '20
BLM2020I have the longest road, 12, but it only gave me 10. the game counted the inside of the road instead of the boarders
https://imgur.com/a/fnXZCCZ .Ss this a bug/glitch? should it be 10 or 12 roads? -
01 Jul, '20
Jean Détraquis MergedI was playing a game where my opponent just earned longest road with an 8 piece long road. Right after that, I managed to cut it in half by placing a settlement in the exact middle of the longest road, cutting it in two 4 piece roads. My opponent still had the 2 bonus points for longest road, even though they're longest road was now of only 4 roads. This may be according to the rules of Catan, I'm not sure, maybe when you have longest road you keep it until somebody steal it to you, even if your
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01 Jul, '20
pin MergedWhen orange put house on the road of green, green should have lost the longest road. Instead, the game bugged out and somehow green got longest road eventhough orange had more roads. In the end, both simultaneously had longest road, what??
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03 Jul, '20
Zebo MergedLongest road notification is on a loop between the two players. When a settlement is built on an intersecting road the road count is reduced but the longest road points aren’t updated and two players show with longest road icon
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07 Jul, '20
CookieCutterI noticed another longest road bug today. Steps to reproduce: player A has 8 VPs and road length 5, player B has road length 6. Now bot C broke up player B’s road by placing a settlement, gifting player A longest road and therefor the win. The game showed 10 VPs for player A but the game still continued.
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08 Jul, '20
velcromagnon MergedI have a road of 12 segments, which is demonstrated in the attached image. The algorithm is incorrectly determining the length, and thus not awarding longest road when it should.
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08 Jul, '20
Matt MergedI have had similar experiences with roads not counting correctly. I had a road length 8. I built 4 roads to make a loop in the middle so I had 3 roads 6 loop and 3 roads with the three roads separated by 2 on the loop. It calculated my road length to be 3 + 6 from the loop instead of 3 +4+3
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10 Jul, '20
Nick MergedSame problem happened to me just now. Length 13 road calculated as length 11 when there was a loop in the middle. Screenshot here: https://imgur.com/a/8aKQ55g
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11 Jul, '20
Austin Admin"Longest road calculating incorrectly" (suggested by velcromagnon on 2020-07-08), including upvotes (3) and comments (2), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Jul, '20
Austin Admin"Bug when blocking longest road with a settlement" (suggested by Jean Détraquis on 2020-07-01), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Jul, '20
Austin Admin"Fix bug with longest road" (suggested by Roye on 2020-06-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Jul, '20
Austin Admin"There is a bug when someone blocks longest road" (suggested by pin on 2020-07-01), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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11 Jul, '20
Austin Admin"Two players with longest road and notification on a loop" (suggested by Zebo on 2020-07-03), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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12 Jul, '20
Iambic MergedWhen Longest Road is interrupted, the player who held Longest Road should lose that designation if they no longer have a continuous 5-segment road.
In the image, Black built a settlement to disrupt Orange's road. Orange and Green were awarded Longest Road even though Orange no longer had a continuous road that was 5 segments long.
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13 Jul, '20
Sylarhttps://discord.com/channels/605233308577562643/631340849975787520
I made 13 roads at the end of the game, but the system only recognized 11.
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14 Jul, '20
Austin Admin"Longest Road Bug (Broken Animation and Incorrect Point Distribution)" (suggested by Iambic on 2020-07-12), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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14 Jul, '20
Austin Admin"Circles should be seen as a full road" (suggested by GET on 2020-05-30), including upvotes (3) and comments (1), was merged into this suggestion.
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16 Jul, '20
David MergedMy (black) longest road should be 14 segments, but the game thinks it is only 12 segments long. There are no opposing settlements breaking up my road, so I can't think of why it would count as 12 instead of 14. I am playing on Google Chrome. Cheers!
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18 Jul, '20
Austin Admin"Longest Road Count is Wrong" (suggested by David on 2020-07-16), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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19 Jul, '20
bobop MergedI took longest road (5 roads) and got credited the points. Then my road got cut by and opponents settlement (4 roads), but the points remained, even when opponents had longer roads. Throughout the game the road animation was triggered every single turn.
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19 Jul, '20
Austin Admin"Glitch - Longest road" (suggested by bobop on 2020-07-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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21 Jul, '20
Shawn MergedA longest road can be broken if a settlement is legally built within the road. However, the game does not know how to revoke the longest road card if no one else qualifies for longest road yet, allowing two players to have the longest road. In the attached image, both blue and orange were awarded longest road points though only orange qualified for it.
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24 Jul, '20
Anonymous MergedLongest path road should be broken when another player's settlement blocks that path. Player A connected longest road through player B's settlement but game counted the longest road through that settlement when the rules say it should be split.
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25 Jul, '20
Alexandra MergedWhen the longest road is shortened by a building construction and equals another road, the "longest road" award keeps appering alternately for both players, slowing the page a lot.
When one of them gets the longest road, again it appeared every second until I refreshed the page. -
27 Jul, '20
DMoney MergedSee attached image for black roads - there are 12 in a row but only counts as 10 - maybe the loop is screwing it up somehow?
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28 Jul, '20
Austin Admin"Bug Report - Roads not counting properly" (suggested by DMoney on 2020-07-27), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
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29 Jul, '20
Esqarrouth Admin Merged"Longest road counting error" (suggested by Anonymous on 2020-07-24), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.