Session Report - Feb 27 2008 - COWs came home

The VBGG joins the Beta Test of Catan Online World

Out of all of our jaunts into online gaming, I would have to say that this has been one of the smoothest starts to a new game. We are more experienced now, and the COW interface is definitely better than others we use. The consensus was that COW was quite playable, and the VBGG is looking forward to trying different games, such as Cities and Knights.

Bart and Pete are lovers of Catan the Cardgame, and are looking forward to trying that out.

We took just a bit to all relocate to Würfelbach, and wander around the city. LadyCassandra tried to invite us all in for tea in her new home, but the door was locked. Aww!

Using Teamspeak with great success for managing communications on two tables. That's really nice! Thanks to everyone for using Teamspeak.

On to the game results.

Table 1: Pete, Bart, Lisa, Beth -

Standard Catan, our very first go. Pete placed pretty silly, as this game was more for learning.

Bart got totally starved out of resources, and Pete got a nice windfall. Pete rolled on wheat, Rock and sheep to stack dev cards and make 4 cities nicely.

Pete 10
Bart 5
Beth 7
Lisa 5



Table 2: Karen, Dana, Collin, Bill -

Standard Catan

No detailed report from table 2 yet. Other than The robber tried to make Bill loose, but he held on another round to win.

Karen 6
Dana 5
Collin 4
Bill 10


Beta Comments:

• Dana registered, but seemed to register as a german, as his interface is in German. We think he did something wrong.
• It would be great if you could look at dice statistics with popup window (ala cities3D), they are always fun to look at.
• Card Animations during trade are slow. For all users on Table 1.
  
• Seems like other animation lags as well, like dice rolls?
• It would be nice to be able to create "private tables" We do this with mode "invisible" on BSW, then ghook friend. Or just password a game, that would be ok?
  
• It would be nice if you could turn invisible on and off during a game.
• Animation issues in the city, where the user name doesn't erase properly. Like magicmagennisisisisisisisisisisi as the player moves west.