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Mayor System - Algorithm to determine seems broken
At the start of Season 2 (Wednesday 29th in New Zealand), I made an effort on 10 settlements to be the top contributor and therefore mayor. I focused on 6 settlements in Dunedin (on the way to/from the car and walkable at lunchtime) and 4 in Mosgiel where I live.
Between Wednesday and Friday I contributed 196 VP points to the wolves score and grew each of these settlements from stage one to stage three, added all the building plots and all the buildings. On Sunday morning I was disappointed when I woke up and didn't have any notifications - later learning that no one had received any.
On Sunday and Monday I checked out these settlements and found I was mayor on none of them; there had been a small amount of growth on a few but nothing like the average of 20VP points I had added. What concerned me the most is that on several settlements, the bears were the mayor yet their settlement had 0 VP.
With the how determined as "the Mayor is a player who contributes the most to a Settlement within a given calendar week" (https://community.catanworldexplorers.com/discussion/128/mayor), it seems bizarre that a settlement with 39 VP points on the red side vs 0 on the blue side, can have a blue mayor.
This is probably what will make me take a break from the game - with no "reward" for actions, why bother building up a settlement?
App version 1.3.4
Pixel 3a, Android 10
Player Poll: What’s your favorite Personal Settlement building?
Greetings Explorers!
Today we are interested in hearing your feedback about Personal Settlements. We would like to know which Personal Settlement building is your favorite – and why? Please let us know if you have any suggestions to improve this important part of CATAN – World Explorers. We would also be interested to know what kind of rewards you would prefer from your personal settlement: Resources, RP, XP, Gold, Mini Games or Development Cards? Let us know in the comments.
For reference, here are the reward details for each building at level 1:
- Community Center – Reward: 150 resource tokens (when rolled)
- Archive – Reward: 25 RP (when rolled)
- Storehouse – Reward: 1 Random Resource Card (1 day cooldown)
- Grand Treasury – Reward: 2 Gold (when rolled)
- Town Plaza – Reward: 500 XP (when rolled)
- Library – Reward: 25 RP and 100 XP (when rolled)
- University – Reward: 50 RP (1 day cooldown)
- Weaver – Reward: 1500 XP (1 day cooldown)
- Mint – Reward: 2 Gold (1 day cooldown)
- Resource Charging Buildings, i.e. Lumber Market, Brick Market, Wool Market, Ore Market, Grain Market – Reward: 1 Mini Game (4 day cooldown)
- Resource Generating Buildings, i.e. Lumber Mill, Brick Kiln, Wool Storage, Ore Foundry, Grain Silo – Reward: 50 Ressource Tokens (when rolled)
Yours
Dominik and the CATAN – World Explorers Team
Re: Special Cards taking up development card space
Hey all - sorry for the mayoral troubles. This is why no one wants to get into politics :/
An overwhelming flood of things you don't find useful is definitely not in line with what we'd call "fun."
We'll put this up for review - thanks for your patience in the meantime!
CATANEir
Show & Tell: Your favorite Resource Center or Settlement
Greetings Explorers,
We are hoping you are exploring the world, harvesting resources and having fun!
We have an exciting series of forum posts lined up for the next few weeks, including more Developer Spotlights and opportunities for you – our awesome beta players – to deliver feedback and shape the future of the game.
This time we would love to see your favorite in-game location that you have visited while playing CATAN – World Explorers. Share a screenshot of this Resource Center or Settlement and let us know why this spot is special to you!
I’ll start with my local favorite spot. It’s the Guardian Angel. It is right on top of the local boardgame shop, which lies on my regular walkway, when I’m out collecting resources. I just love to check-in to see if they got something new. 😅
Yours
Dominik and the CATAN – World Explorers Team
Re: RP & Salvage Developer Spotlight - Aug 2020
What an incredible post. Today it is so rare for a company or development team to interact in any way with its consumer / player. Congratulations on the post and I look forward to more information, I look forward to playing CatanWE. A big hug here from Brazil.
Miraggen
Re: Why Settlements showed up all around the world & a Hello from the Community Manager
@fiyahflash You cannot ask me about Pokémon GO things, as this is the CATAN – World Explorers forum 😉 and I'm also not responsible for Pokémon GO anymore at this point. But feel free to ask me about CATAN – World Explorers!
@SmartGenius & @AjanHukka Regarding all the questions about release date: We won't be able to share any date or timeline at this point. It is important for us to act on your feedback, which also means that we will have to stay flexible.
Chatroom is not functioning - “Fallen Faun”
The local chatroom for central Auckland is not working at all. This chatroom “Fallen Faun” will not accept any chat messages, so can not be used.
When tapping to enter the chat room a “loading” message can be seen midscreen but no further action results.
Have had no issues using other chat rooms, both in different parts of the city or in Wellington or Nelson.
Why Settlements showed up all around the world & a Hello from the Community Manager
Greetings Explorers!
Let me start with a quick introduction: My name is Dominik and I’m the Community Manager for CATAN – World Explorers. I am here to support you with additional updates and collecting your feedback to make sure it reaches the right members of the team. So if there is anything specific that you would like to hear more of, please let me know!
I am located in Germany (so don’t expect me posting outside of GMT office hours). Previously I have worked on Pokémon GO and Ingress in Europe – so you might know me from events in the region.
Enough of me. Let’s get back to an update about the game:
On Monday afternoon Pacific Time, Settlements and Resource Points were activated worldwide for about 2 hours. This enabled players who had downloaded the game outside the app stores to play for a short period. This wasn’t intended, as we are still in a beta limited to certain countries (currently New Zealand and recently Switzerland).
The activation of these Settlements and Resource Centers happened due to a server update and, frankly, it might happen again in the future. This is not an indicator for when we are planning to take the game to launch. We currently are still in the beta phase of launch and are actively collecting feedback from our beta players so we can improve the game before full launch. We still have work to do! 😊
To everyone who is a part of this forum but is currently unable to play the game: We are excited about your enthusiasm! Rest assured, the time will come for you to join the fun.
Thank you,
Dominik and the CATAN – World Explorers Team
CATANdominik
Game Update: 1.10.1
What’s New
- Cool new visual effects to see Boosts in action: Park Play Tiles will glow and Resource Centers are twice as large when using Boosts!
- More Quest slots! All players now have 3 quest slots instead of 2
- Improvements to connectivity and more detailed error messages
CATANSkyler
Dice throw pings other dice off the board in a wild manner
Not sure this qualifies as a bug but the dice physics is weird. Example: In a 3 dice minigame, I have 2 dice thrown on the board when the third dice clips one and all dice fly far off into the distance. No rewards for me. Oh, and there was a little dude standing in the middle of the board! Haven't seen that before but pinging dice is pretty common.
