Firstborn child... AND a non block! XD That got me! Also love your vision for Catan content creation, keep it up, Dylan! Excited to see what happens!

lets go dylighted on a posting streak

Hi Dylighted, I know you get a lot of hate for some reason but if you happen to read your comments just know that I appreciate your uploads and gameplay. Thanks for the entertainment and good luck with everything you do!

Also I love the idea of you hosting tournaments and becoming the “Gotham chess” of catan. That would be awesome!

I think going for the wood port was the game changing blunder. That turn you could of settled and used your knight to get pacing on army. Then if you stole a wood or a wheat, you can build another dev with a the three for one port if it was wood that you stole.

GothamChess for Catan sounds like an awesome goal. I do hope Catan explodes like Chess and Poker, like you said. And, being an engineer with lots of programming experience, I'd also love to have a Catan AI solver. The insights into the game provided by it could be pretty cool

Happy to see you posting Dylan! See you at nationals in 2 weeks 😎

Hey dylan, I think it would be super fun and cool to try another version of catan! Like “gold rush” or the wood one. A different map entirely! The country map is okay. But that’d be fun to watch!

What is that random flash of a settlement at 15:26 ? great vid but that jumpscared me haha

Love your vids Dylan! Gotta ask: did you start saying “fascinating” this much to increase those YT metrics? I know you’re a student of the algo🤓

Every board is “fascinating”, love it lol awesome videos lately brotha 🤝

Fascinating

yo Dylighted, big fan of your content and watching you play. according to your titles, every single one of your games is INSANE. your content is better than the clickbait titles, man :)

13:31 "This is where I wish the Catan solver would help me out with my decision." -- In chess, this is known as cheating. If you are caught cheating in chess, your career is ended right there. You really don't want to be the Hans Niemann of Catan.

Catan sopver would 100% tell you to build production on the 3:1 port over dev cards. Production pays out more In the longru

Dice rolls this game were nuts...

If diplomacy can have an AI a game that is all human interaction, Catan can

"knight card, jacks from me, takes a sheep, leaves me my two roads..." *steals brick* "... a man can dream, right?"

Great Videos love your informative content. Gotta ask though, did you find out that saying fascinating increase engagement on KZfaq? Feels like it's been a major buzzword since you started posting again.

Interesting that both you and Danny mention chess

“…and a nonblock” was fucking comedic genius

Fascinating game...but short!

The main thing to think about and what you have to consider when going for army or road is that getting army takes multiple turns, and some games there just isn't the time to wait to get army. And of course depends if you're ahead on race. But with road, a couple lucky rolls and you can get it in a turn, so it makes for a fast win. Also, I think on the 'should play knight?' part, I'm not sure if playing the knight is super necessary there. It really depends on if you think the 9 rolls that turn. If you don't think it will then maybe play knight after(in case of 7). I don't think robbing a lesser player makes sense in case of 7. Unless maybe you know they have a card you need that others don't then maybe. But it can result in gaining an enemy too. But yeah, 7s are more statistically likely than 9s, so assuming that a 7 could roll would have a huge plus there, and best case it does roll and you get to save knight. Since the double rob usually makes it seem like a knight is 'wasted'. But yeah I personally choose to play knights more conservatively. Just because a spot your on is blocked doesn't mean you have to play a knight. There is a limit to the number of knights(14), so that is something to consider. And after playing the knight, there may be a chance that a minor inconvenience of being blocked one turn can mean later on a tile is blocked that if you could knight to remove block can determine a win from a loss. And lastly, if you hold knights, it makes it harder for your opponent's to read other devs you may have like vps/mono, and if you can convince people you may have a vp, then saving the knight can lead to a late game take army if opponent's don't continuously buy more devs.

Fascinating is his new favourite word haha

We need a “fascinating” counter pls editor

Hey Dylighted, for the competitions I think a key component is price money. When I look at e.g. T90 he hosts tournaments in Age of empires 2 with the best players in the world for couple hundred bucks ^^ Multiple rounds -> more content.

damn those dice *are* crazy. those odds must be super small. very short game too, so no chance to level out.

You used the wood port once, and risked the plow which would be gg. Really not sure why you thought that was the right play. But gg anyways. Also, is a Catan AI in production / testing or is it just speculative? Because I feel like its yeeeeeears away from being viable. Unless its giving advice about trades to make / tracking cards etc its gna be pretty useless anyway. It will suggest opening set-ups but without advice on how to actually play the set-up its also kinda useless.

I believe the correct rob was from blue when black and orange had 8 cards. Black needs to dodge 2 sevens, which means he runs a 1/3 risk of losing a minimum of 4 cards. Orange's risk is 50/50 to lose a minimum of 4 cards. EV for both scenarios, even if they still have 8 cards if the 7 rolls, is for them to lose more than the 1 card you steal. Granted, you also have to add the possibility of the card you steal benefiting you while unblocking your own number. Black might be the rob but I think we leave orange alone there.

You got this Dylan!

Keep up the good work Dylan 🔥

Hey @dyl this might be a silly question but are those cities that pop up as you’re planning a feature of colonist, or an edit on the video?

That dice distribution is nuts. That's why I don't think catan will ever have the competitive scene that poker does, since no one likes to lose because their game didn't last long enough for things to normalize.

Dylighted 100k games is not enough for a Catan engine with current methods. Make it 100M then we can talk about it.

heyt what about settling 4-10-9 double ore + sheep and poiting road down to expand on the 10/9?

Correct answer: it depends My personal answer bcuz of my ego: NEVER

at 6:31 maybe better to go for the 6:12:11 spot?

levi the goat....up gotham chess

nice videos dude :)

Hello dylighted. I know that you talked about a catan AI. I have done programming before. That is something that I am willing to consider doing as a project. I would need some good funding to work on it full time.

how many online tournaments are there?

If you were on the 6-11-12, you would’ve had nothing 😂

a solver cannot generate an unexploitable strategy in a game of more than 2 players competing each others. The reason is , often, a -EV play of player A changes the equilibrium and accidentally costs EV of B when others (C,D,E,...) exploit A. For example, you can still play like a solver in multiway pots and ICM situations in Poker and still make -EV actions from time to time.

I like this guy

blue *really* should have settled on the sheep port before going for the 5 6 12.

I'm addicted to ore wheat sheep

What about sometimes trying to get road instead of getting devs? Not like you didn't have space or something and I don't agree with the road at the start towards the port. You should've gotten plowed but got lucky with the 4 and 8 to road settle instead of orange

What is that dice stats omw

on your point about a potential Catan AI... those are the same arguments used for every niche AI has come and dominated. Be it Chess, Go, or even Diplomacy. honestly, if AI can play GO or Diplomacy, it can crush Catan np.

9:36 last time I played catan with my gf I got her to trade me a brick and immediately cut her off, catans cut throat like that

Fun game!

you haven't posted in over a month... "i have to post daily"

In the first three minutes, how many cuts do you make in editing? In few sentences it looks you cut footage in every other word.

who was number 1 rank last season?

I have some interest in making Catan AI. Do you know if people are currently working on it?

If they do make a solver you shouldn't be using it while playing, that's just cheating.

Dont say you want to be the gotham chess of catan. Say Carlsen or Naka. You are more of a catan gm hat has a channcel with the chance to explode

Give an AI enough time and no human being can ever beat it. It will be able to think ahead on future deals and track table talk. It's completely ignorant to think otherwise and whoever posted that comment most likely have no experience with machine learning.

Spoiler Free Buffer Comment

Honestly I think you just got unlucky

#gothamchess

Brother is really comparing chess and catan xD хахаха

Fascinating