Exact same story here, including the AI gaining the road bonus on his last play. It's like I earned achievements for the AI making a nice play. Totally frustrating. I sincerely wish Catan had a different developer.
Achievements Does anyone know how to get the 'Monoculture' and 'Trading Skills' achievements in Catan HD? The text is cut off in Game Center, and they are my last two.
v 3.0 is out with the C&K expansion expansion is a 4.99 IAP and comes with a mini campaign there are also some other improvements like an "improved almanac layout" and small tweaks (like reordering the resource icons) there are also retina graphics for those of us with the new ipad
Thanks for the heads-up. A bit priced but I can wait to acquire the C&K. There is still no async MP, right?
You can still play the LITE map if you're willing to tap 17 times on the map selection screen to find it. It's all the bang of C&K with only 7 VP to win. It makes the games really short but I prefer it since it makes you have to play dirty No async in this one though they are working on it (it's taking a long time because it's cross platform with all the different version) I'm also having problems with crashing and the UI in general :/
Okay, fair enough. I wonder what took them so long... In many way, I personally prefer this over Carcassone and TtR, but there is no async and wifie is unwilling to learn this one. (she is my No.1 boardgame partner)
The Cities & Knights expansion is available now für Catan (iPhone) and Catan HD. Android will follow in about a week. The next big update will be the online multiplayer. We'll think about an Italian version as well. To always get the latest news you can also follow us on Facebook.com/UnitedSoftMedia
I really want this but I only have the Phone version (plus seafarers already) since I bought it before I have an iPad... arggghh! Don't want to buy it twice, so I just hope for $2 discount on Catan HD soon, guess I'll have to wait till Christmas (finger crossed).
I really hope that they aren't going to be swept up by the async craze, because this game will be painfully awful played async, IMHO. I think it's fine to have it because people will demand it, but for the love of peat, please also put a big effort into live online, with a good lobby system and such. I won't be playing this async, so I hope it's not just async.
They don't say and don' respond to questions about it. Though they did respond to a question about multiplayer pricing... They aren't sure about printing but basic multiplayer will be free. Brace your wallets people. They charge 4.99 for the app and 4.99 for each expansion on both iPhone and iPad 4.99 x 6= 29.94 Yet we can't get a game that works correctly in over 2 years, 3 if you count the iPhone version but it doesn't load on iPads at all
What doesn't work about it? I've had it for a while, but haven't really dove into it yet. If it doesn't work, I don't see how they can expect to sell any of the expansions. If it did work well, then than pricing is still bargain basement compared to the real game, so I've got no problem with that at all. You can't even get the base game for $30.
I'm not sure what VeganTnT is referring to regarding the game loading on iPads. I have the game and all expansions. I haven't played any of the campaigns yet, but I can confirm that I am able to start and play a custom game on a C&K map.
You can't play the iPhone version on the iPad which forces you to rebuy the game and expansions. The current v3 of the game has several bugs that cause crash loops and on iTunes people are reporting missing UI elements, like the Barbarian Ship counter in the C&K expansion vanishing.
Just a short note that we're investigating the issues reported here and via Facebook and Twitter. So far only a tiny fraction of all users are having issues with the latest update, so it's hard to pin down at the moment. (E.g. not a single crashlog has been submitted via iTunes and only very few to our support team). We, our Devs, the Catan folks and our beta testers spend weeks testing and we didn't experience any of the issues reported here during final testing. Nevertheless we're working hard to identify the cause for your reports and will fix them as soon as they're identified. Thanks to those who already send us detailled reports and logs! (Just drop us an email at [email protected]. Please specify the details of the issue, the device used, iOS Version and attach crashlogs and/or screenshots if possible. This way we can analyze the exact situation) Regarding two other questions raised here: Multiplayer will not be async: Due to the trades and offers going back and forth, async Catan games would simply take too long to be fun to play. Why is development taking so long? We want cross-platform multiplayer, e.g. iOS and Android users should be able to play together. Why don't we convert Catan to a universal app? Apple simply doesn't allow merging apps.
Please make it at least 30 minutes - 1 hour async if possible. The problem with sync is that you cannot multitask at all. If you minimize or your ipad/iphone goes to sleep, your game is gone. That's what i really hate about ticket to ride for Ipad, I had to constantly worry about my ipad going to sleep because it would kick me out of the game. Or make it so that minimizing/multitasking does not boot you out of the game.
I have at least one game that does that (rather, doesn't do that). Some poker game I'm forgetting the name of. You can leave the app and come back as long as it's within some shortish time limit. So that is doable and, yes, I hope they do it. Also I agree with the dev that async does not make sense for this game at all.
