Horrible UI but good AI so far

There are a lot of problems with the user interface but this is the only version of Catan Ive played where the AI is challenging [EDIT: AI on hard wasnt challenging, it was just getting lucky].

Because of the bad user interface games take 3x longer than they should. PLEASE add an option to disable all animations. It takes way too long to watch each 4-1 bank trade, even if animations are set to turbo. There are too many player notifications and you cant hit enter to close them, you have to click ok. Finally, the animated map view is completely useless, at least it isnt the default.

All that being said, I have to give it 3 stars because so far I cant stop playing this thing even though it burns much more time than it should or has to due to the user interface. This game is almost awesome, please fix it.

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