Select placement order in private games or Tournaments

Comments: 19

• 30 Apr, '20
  Roch Merged

  I'm running a regular season/tournament offline and using Colonist to set up the games. Once we get to the playoffs, it'd be nice for there to be a setting where you could designate the order of settlement placement based on the board. For example, the highest seed gets to look at the board and then select which selection spot they want, providing a benefit for them having a better regular season. My friends and I often play like this normally, as well. Adds a layer of strategy where you are det

• 11 May, '20
  Bigredswimmer Merged

  Give the option during game setup for tournament semis and finals to select which position players get to be in. First rank should get the option of when they place (after seeing map) followed by second rank picking from the remaining slots and so on.

• 11 May, '20
  boliwimo Merged

  i want to be in.

• 16 Jul, '20
  AlexInAuburn Merged

  I think this feature should be available to the game host in all Colonist games.

• 16 Jul, '20
  Prateek87 Merged

  Wouldn't agree to it. That would give an unfair advantage at the start of the game to the player ranked 1st. For eg: In tennis, it is random draw to decide which player would serve first even in semis or finals. The only advantage that a higher ranked player gets is that the 1st ranked would play 4th in semis, but not any advantage in the game itself. I think in semis who will play with who can be decided based on ranks, but not to take the advantage any further.

• 20 Jul, '20
  Bigredswimmer Merged

  This is how national qualifiers are run today, and I have played in dozens of tournaments that use this format.

• 12 Aug, '20
  Sam Merged

  My group is looking to have a 12 game tournament, but our data suggests that the turn order heavily impacts win rate and average VP, particularly in 6 player games. To normalize this effect, we would love to have the ability to select a custom turn order for each game. That way each person would get 2 games from each of the 6 positions.

• 18 Aug, '20
  JUAN Admin

  "Allow players to choose order of settlement selection (private games only)" (suggested by Roch on 2020-04-30), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 29 Aug, '20
  JUAN Admin

  "Allow room creator to select turn order" (suggested by Sam on 2020-08-12), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 29 Aug, '20
  JUAN Admin

  "Tournament semifinals/finals mode (select placement order)" (suggested by Bigredswimmer on 2020-05-11), including upvotes (14) and comments (4), was merged into this suggestion.

• 04 Mar, '21
  George

  Great idea. Be good for tournaments.

• 16 Sep, '22
  Rowen Merged

  Would be awesome if we could choose custom placement orders or custom boards. Some examples of why this would be nice are:
  
  1. Choosing placement order for online tournaments
  
  2. Recreating past boards you have played on or even famous boards used for national finals
  
  3. Trying out wacky boards
  
  4. A solution for your complaining friend who says "I never get to place first"
  
  Also it would be cool if you could choose placement order after seeing the board like how they do at most tournaments.

• 16 Sep, '22
  Brian (KellyC) Merged

  THIS. This would also make for good content for streamers like me (TheKellyC)
  
  I APPROVE THIS MESSAGE.
  
  -KellyC on Colonist (The #1 and only Catan site I'll ever play on)

• 17 Sep, '22
  Shanks1700 Merged

  Agreed. 100%.
  
  Btw, if you are reading this, join Catan Championship League :)

• 17 Sep, '22
  Spencer Merged

  This would be an insanely good feature the competitive scene would use all the time. I hope colonist takes this one seriously because content creators would get lots of utility out of this. I have seen Dylighted request this feature in the past and he would use it in videos which would help market colonist and the feature to the public!

• 17 Sep, '22
  alna Merged

  AFAIK, custom boards with placement order choice based on qualifier rank is the way playoff games are played at official Catan tournaments, so this is a must have feature if colonist.io wants to keep its position as the preferred choice for competitive Catan games. Honestly, I'm a bit puzzled why this hasn't been implemented a long time ago.

• 17 Sep, '22
  Caetiri Merged

  I would *love* to see it possible to have tournaments where everyone is playing exactly the same board, so *yes* to this!

• 28 Sep, '22
  JUAN Admin

  "Custom placement order/Custom boards" (suggested by Rowen on 2022-09-16), including upvotes (29) and comments (5), was merged into this suggestion.

• 30 Oct, '22
  AlexInAuburn

  Add a checkmark for setting playing order. Then enable the ability to reorder the player list. Instead of the Top player being in control of the game set-up, Highlight the room controller in a special-colored background, and allow the person in control of the room to be able to give control to someone else in the room, without disabling the ability to play their maps and expansions (they just must remain in the room and play in the game).