Catan Universe News

Hi Catanians,

tomorrow on March 9th servers will go into maintenance mode at 11 am [CET]. During maintenance, you won’t be able to play.
We will sue the maintenance to roll out update 2.2.0 which will include the 5/6 player scenarios for the “Basegame”, “Seafarers” and “Cities&Knights” expansion.
The Changelog for update 2.2.0 will follow on March 9th.

Below you will find the new rules for 5/6 player scenarios that have been developed by Klaus Teuber:


We are happy to announce a major rules-change for 5-6 player CATAN games! We are officially replacing the “Extraordinary Build Phase.” Now, two players will “share” a turn (identified as Settler 1 and Settler 2). Settler 1 is the player that rolls the production dice for the turn. Settler 2 is the third player to the left of Settler 1.

1. Resource Production Phase

Settler 1 rolls the dice determine which terrain hexes produce resources for all players (as usual).

2. Trade and Build Phase

Settler 1 performs all of their trading and building actions exactly as usual (no changes to the rules). Settler 1 then ends their trade and build phase.

Settler 2 now gets to take a special turn. Settler 2 may also trade and build as much as they wish, with the following exception: Settler 2 MAY NOT trade with other players (domestic trade). However, Settler 2 is allowed to trade with the supply (maritime trade). Settler 2 then ends their trade and build phase.

Both Settler 1 and Settler 2 may play development or progress cards on their turns, but only Settler 1 is allowed to play a knight card before rolling the dice.

Hi Catanians,
We are excited to give you all a sneak preview into the our upcoming update 2.2.0.

This update will include among several improvements a highly requested feature we are very excited to show you today.


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The 5/6 player scenarios will be added to the Basegame, Seafares and Cities and Knights expansion without any additional charges. The cost for the expansions will stay the same, we just added the 5/6 scenarios.

This also means, if you already own the "Basegame", "Seafarers" or "Cities and Knights" you will get the associated 5/6 scenarios for free!



The 5/6 scenarios will be played with revised rules created by Klaus Teuber himself.

For all the 5/6 veterans out there: We will post the new rules in advance here as well ;)

• fixed lighting issues for fantasy theme set table on desktop platform
  
• fixed blocker in mobile tutorials desktop SuR tutorial
  
• fixed text issues in viking and fantasy IAP items
  
• fixed an issue, where a Freemium player is not able to start randomly
  
• fixed an issue within gamelog, when discard SuR progress card
  
• fixed glitch when reloading a game and see real VP number in profile frames
  
• fixed singleplayer experience retrieval
  
• fixed 2nd robber issue on various Sf and SuR cards
  

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All offers are available between Nov. 27th 00:00 AM [GMT] and Nov. 27th 23:59 PM [GMT]

Dear Catanians,

Catan Universe 2.1.0 focusses on your feedback regarding the in-game UI we introduced with update 2.0. You will find a lot of customization options as well as improvements in trade as well as the multiplayer. See below what we have been working on:




[h2]New Tradeboard [/h2]

Trading is now handled in real-time → players can start a trade then continue to play, and accept the trade later on
Resource selection handling → click on the card on the opposite site to decrease your offer

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[h2]Multiplayer overhaul[/h2]

New methods to verify the correct sequence of played actions in multiplayer games; If the actions aren’t verified the game will reload automatically to a verified state

Auto-A.I. of other players kicks in if the active player is offline and turntimer runs out

Removed kick timer; players get kicked if their turn timer runs out 3 times; no more kicks in custom matches


Rebuilt complete rejoin/reconnect/reload process

Turn timer doesn’t wait for any UI changes in between actions anymore

Sync active players’ turn timer with trade offer

Sync turntimer on every players’ turn start

Trading is now a simultaneous active/passive timer situation

Robber stops the active players’ turn timer if/until all other players have selected their resources

Auto-A.I. handles C&K better

Stability in UI/client in general

Host is set by servers (before, the clients decided who will be host)

Stabilized synchronization of offline/reconnect state



[h2]UI / Layout:[/h2]


more tooltips

player frame: incoming trade indicator -> click to open Tradeboard

new UI option: simple player frames: can be enabled in in-game options → new tab “Visuals”

[User Feedback] enable/disable “A.I. sends emojis” can be enabled in in-game options → new tab “Visuals”

[User Feedback] enable/disable “Resource Highlight on Hexagons” can be enabled in in-game options → new tab “Visuals”

[User Feedback] enable/disable “Place build effect” can be enabled in in-game options → new tab “Visuals”

[User Feedback] show text when development/progress card is being clicked/dragged → "drag to board to play card"

(Mobile) when 3d board tooltips toggle is enabled → "click on game piece to get more info"

[User Feedback] disable "Players Turn" ticker can be enabled in in-game options → new tab

New “Visuals” during multiplayer-related network communication, a ‘loader animation’ is shown in the right-bottom corner of the screen (next to the Player Turn Button)

[User Feedback] resource animations + highlight spawn multiple resource cards from tile; new option “fast resource distribution” → in-game options tab “Visuals”:

when enabled, resource highlight + animation start at the same time
when enabled, resource highlight + animation do not wait for cameras
when enabled, all resources are distributed at once
when enabled, resource animations more fluid / less “alarming”
do not pop up that much anymore → when disabled, the resource card pops up and then starts moving


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[h2]Changes: [/h2]

[User Feedback] smoother game piece animation from opponents’ build menu to board

[User Feedback] no more highlight on dev/prog cards that cannot be played

[User Feedback] bigger arrow on player frame → active player indicator

[User Feedback] bigger resource icons and labels



Lower quality settings on some lower spec iOS devices: prevents crashes due to memory limits on newer iOS versions reduced texture size (especially UI elements)

Custom match player selection shows all friends / guild members


[h2]Fixed Issues: [/h2]

- Game elements become invisible, especially ships

- (Mobile) statistic screens are cut off

- AI hangs at Deserter card if no knight of the player is on the start island in the Enchanted Land scenario

- (Mobile) Camera cannot be moved after the end of a game

- Basegame only playable with 2 KIs if activated with Suns

- Calculation of Longest Road can be wrong

- Empty Gamelog entries in Seafarer expansion

- AI hangs in Rise of the Inkas after resource allocation

- Various localization errors

- (Mobile) UI overlaps on iPhone 11 Pro max

- (Mobile) dice animation under iOS

- Incorrectly finished multiplayer games can cause the game board (even in singleplayer) to not load correctly

- Game end screen is not displayed on all clients

- AI trade does not continue if a client reconnects before replying to AI

- UI element for participation in Season missing / caught in Season Screen

- Crash to home screen after a player did not click the "you took too long" pop-up

- Treasure with road building leads to subsequent errors when player is disconnected and replacement AI sets the roads

- Replacement AI cannot give away resources if it rolled a 7 itself; game cannot be continued

- Trade monopoly can lead to blockers if no commodities are available

- CATAN Suns cannot start a scenario in the BaseGame

- Inventor card leads to graphic errors/additional selection markers

- (Desktop) Custom Match Lobby not scrollable when mouse pointer is at certain positions

- In Cities and Knights, the resource count on mobile, if it is two digits, is not fully displayed

- Too many victory point cards in the deck

- Victory point display only update after the turn was finished

- After playing the bishop card, stolen resources are displayed in the gamelog

- (Mobile) Phones iOS: dice statistics cut off

- (mobile) Report window mobile (Phone only) too large, no reports possible; App must
- closed manually

- Control error in CaK if no cities on the board and no knights active

- Quitting the game via menu in startup phase can lead to blocker

- KNF error in the ticker when you have to give FSK


And many more...