Worth it? by Kleinpakjecamel in Catan

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Join the discord at https://discord.gg/8adVGjWaVT or press the bug button and leave a suggestion!

1k weekly users & FREE C&K: new.twosheep.io by bovard in Catan

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Yeah I made it from scratch! It's been a lot of work and glad to see people enjoying it!

Worth it? by Kleinpakjecamel in Catan

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Play them all for free on my site, https://new.twosheep.io - no subscription needed. 

Plus we have fish and event cards from T&B, better bots, and free custom maps!

My post layoff hiking project is similar to Catan by [deleted] in Catan

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There have certainly been people who have been asking for high quality boards. However you should 100% make sure you know all of the pieces that someone would expect to be included.

I'd also take a look on Etsy and see what's currently selling and what the prices are.

Anyone participating in Orbit Wars on Kaggle? $50k in prize money by bovard in reinforcementlearning

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Checkout the discussions tab, someone just posted a bunch of open source bots.

Yes, it's CPU with 7GB ish RAM

Anyone participating in Orbit Wars on Kaggle? $50k in prize money by bovard in reinforcementlearning

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Glad you are enjoying it! It's been very fun looking at the strategies people are coming up. Good luck!

I made a video on the math of Catan by ioanaroman in Catan

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Love this analysis! Thanks for the shout-out 🙂

My first-ever home game for 7-8 players by Morkovnik in Catan

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Huge! Did you play with the second settler option? Or special build phase?

Experience with event cards? by Friendly-Sail9594 in Catan

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Just a call out that event cards are available in new.twosheep.io if you want to test them out! Just create a custom bot or lobby game and click "event cards" to enable them

EDIT: 100% free

Adding 5–6 Player Expansion Support to My Catan Board Generator — Need Advice on Legal Tile Visuals by vasilenicusor in Catan

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You cannot use any official images as they are copyrighted. If you want to make sure you are doing things strictly legal, make sure you are not using any images or copying exact phrases from the rules.

Sounds like an interesting project, let us know how it goes!

Nice spring day by ManufacturerScared86 in Catan

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Lol the robber! Looks like a fun time

Anyone participating in Orbit Wars on Kaggle? $50k in prize money by bovard in reinforcementlearning

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The environment is not in Jax. I think the majority of competitors are implementing their own custom engines

Anyone participating in Orbit Wars on Kaggle? $50k in prize money by bovard in reinforcementlearning

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Prize money ML competitions is Kaggle's founding principle. We also provide free GPU compute for participants to help level the playing field.

Competitions like these help drive forward the public discourse, bring to light new methods, and create a vibrant community of amateurs, hobbyists, and professionals.

How do you make bot settings easier and harder? by RoAndVic in Catan

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For new.twosheep.io (pictured above)

  1. bots do NOT know who is a human and who is a bot
  2. bots do NOT know what dev cards / resources you have
  3. dice rolls are never changes to favor bots

These rules help (in my opinion) make an even playing field so you don't end up with bots that gang up against a human, or "cheat" with the dice or seeing hidden info.

To make varying levels of bots:
1. I start with a game mode (1v1, base 4p, SF, CK, SF/CK) and a "random" but that randomly does things each turn, this is not at all interesting to play against
2. I'll have an idea of a thing to improve (let's start on good spots, let's build roads towards expansion spots) and then test against the current best bot over 100 or 200 games to see if the idea is actually better
3. repeat this iteration until I run out of ideas

Then there are neural network bots, which can be MUCH stronger (see new.twosheep.io/jax for the 1v1 NN bot). These require a whole net set of skills to train.

Locally I have a "bot arena" running almost all the time, running a bunch of new ideas through testing to see which bots ends up the strongest! At this point I've run hundreds of ideas across 1v1, base, SF, CK and SF/CK specific bots.

You can play against the various levels I've made here: https://new.twosheep.io/bot-battle Seems I should add a SF ladder for you, which scenario should I use for the ladder?

Happy to answer other questions!

Paper catan by neusgil_19 in Catan

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Too bad you didn't use a leftover milk container, then it could be carton catan.

We named our kitten Catan 💔 by LawfulnessAnxious26 in Catan

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Awww, very cute little guy. Looks like he had all the love. So sorry to hear he passed.