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Title: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on April 09, 2016, 07:20:14 AM
Would someone like to play a game online, perhaps: Carcassonne: Die Burg some time?

There are 3-websites that have many great Euro games online for free:

BrettSpielNetz
Once you've registered you can - http://www.brettspielnetz.de/register.php play Carcassonne: Die Burg!!

http://www.yourturnmyturn.com/

I've only played it once before (physically), I know it's JB's spin-off of choice - so perhaps we can make it a regular thing?

Turns can be taken over a long duration too!

Yucata
While we're listing online sites there is also Yucata too:  http://www.yucata.de/en/CreateGame

They have many HiG games: Stone Age, Yucata, Schweinebande, El Grade, Vikings, Carcassonne H&G, Saint Petersburg, Voyages of Marco Polo and also many other nice games like: Cacao, Jaipur, Castles of Burgundy, Glen More.  These may be nice to try too.  I have used an incognito-m0de to play a quick 2-player game on the same PC, which is very nice is try these games if you are not sure if you want to buy them!

BrettSpielWelt
While we're listing sites, don't forget: http://www.brettspielwelt.de/Spiele/ some Carcassonne is there, but JCloisterZone is better, but they have 7 Wonders & Kingdom Builder too.

I think I'm Decar on all these sites, but perhaps we can share screenames and organize some events to play?
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on April 19, 2016, 10:04:24 AM
Yucata.de has just announced Carcassonne:South Seas can now be played online  :(y) :(y) :(y)

http://www.yucata.de/en/Rules/CarcSouthSeas

Also, something I didn't know:

Quote
The english original rules states that retrieving an islander is only possible if a player has zero Islanders in her supply. The german rules states that retrieving is possible, if no islander was placed that turn. The implementation at yucata follows the german rules.
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: danisthirty on April 19, 2016, 11:41:12 AM
The English rule makes more sense to me. Not being able to retrieve while you still have anything left in your hand feels like an appropriate penalty for placing something and then changing your mind about it.
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on April 19, 2016, 11:51:25 AM
Let me know if you fancy giving it a try this evening ;)
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on April 19, 2016, 02:50:20 PM
Dan, Halfing and I just played a game of South Seas online.  It was quite slow, but quite fun:

It was all pretty close.  There was a large fishing strip that scored lots of fish, but as a result there wasn't many shells.  I completed a cloister and almost completed my 2nd to get the last ship.  But alas Dan drew the OOOO Cloister and won the game:

(http://tehill.net/carcassonne/jcloisterzone/CarcSS_Dan_Halfling_19_April_2016.png)

Thanks for the game guys:

Dan: 37
Decar: 35
Halfling: 34
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: danisthirty on April 19, 2016, 02:54:04 PM
My screenshot too:

(http://www.dan.tehill.net/CarcC_SouthSeas_Champion.png)

I think you forgot to mention all the other skill and brilliantness that I did earlier in the game that made me win. It wasn't all about that final cloister. :@

You also forgot to mention that this was the world South Seas championship and that I got a medal as well as a £200 cash prize from you and Halfling.

Thanks for the game guys. :)
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on April 19, 2016, 02:55:15 PM
I'll make sure to have it ready for you at the Thirsty Meeple Meetup  :(y)
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Clownfeet on April 20, 2016, 02:36:38 AM
Thirsty Meeple, as in the one in Oxford?
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on April 20, 2016, 02:45:28 AM
Yes we're having a small member meetup there on the 30th; you're very welcome to come, but please let me know so I can organize the booking and make sure we get a big table :)

Here's the original thread:
http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2430.0

Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Hounk on April 23, 2016, 03:08:04 AM
I'd love to give South Seas a try, too. Today and tomorrow, I will have to work in the evening. But maybe on Monday?
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Hounk on April 25, 2016, 09:55:33 AM
So I' currently at Yucata, and would like to try out a South Sea game, if anybody is interested.

I have not registered yet, but have been assigned the "Guest211100" account. I'm also in chat right now. So please "call" me, if you want to play a game.
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: ny1050220 on April 25, 2016, 12:44:42 PM
Hounk and I tried a game, while he accidentally started another game. Well, I kind of did start another two games, but I resigned those two. Hounk decided to play both games simultaneously. I can't even imagine how hard it is to keep track of two games in the same time, but Hounk made it, well, and it was to my great advantage.
Yucata lets you undo the meeple and tile placement even after you place a meeple (more generous than JCZ), and this benefit a lot now that we are still trying to figure out a strategy.
You need to click a button to finish your turn! And that did waste some time given that I'm now so used to JCZ. Sorry for all the delays, Hounk!
I managed to ship all the goods I got during the game, and I guess that's why I won this game.
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Hounk on April 25, 2016, 01:02:22 PM
Congrats again. At least I won my second game. Didn't want to undo it, because there was already a participant in it. Yes, it was kind of irritating, but at least the program worked good. Most of the time, as soon as I finished a turn, it told me, that the other game awaits my turn and asked me to switch there.  8)

I include a picture, though made the opponent anonym. If anybody wants another game, I am in chat.
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on April 25, 2016, 01:50:47 PM
Great to see you both had fun. Yes that finish turn thing caught us more than once!
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: MrNumbers on April 26, 2016, 07:40:57 AM
"Finish the turn" feature is already implemented in the last version of JCZ (confirm follower placement).
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Hounk on April 27, 2016, 01:30:15 AM
On Yukata, you have to confirm once again after scoring, and that does not make sense and is likely to e forget. However, I hardly ever had to wait for ny1050220, since I had the other game running.
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Hounk on April 27, 2016, 07:57:26 AM
From another thread (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2049.msg39524#msg39524):
Have never played that, but it's at Yucata! Now, that I registered there, maybe we want to give it a try in the evening? Possibly back to back with a game of South Seas?

I love your enthusiasm :) But I'm a bit scared of Yucata and I don't want to get hooked on it. So for now I am resisting :)
Unless we arrange group meetings, as long as you have to play with the people there, I don#t think, there is much danger of it. Most user seem to open a dozend of games and go offline after a few turns. It's more like "play by forum" or even "play by snail mail", then real time online games.
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Hounk on April 30, 2016, 01:51:33 AM
I think, I give it a try to maybe establish such a group here. Like I hinted before, I like the big selection, Yucata provides, but am not hooked by the "asynchronous play mode", which provides games to possible last for weeks or months, like if you would play a game of chess with your pen pal. My idea for this would be:

So for our first try, I would suggest Mo, June May 2nd, 8:30 pm Middle European Summer Time, this will be 7:30 pm British Summer Time or 9:30 Eastern European Summer Time. I would vote for Hunters & Gatherers as the main game and Jaipur and Torres as candidates for the "side dish" of the week.
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: ny1050220 on April 30, 2016, 05:26:35 AM
So for our first try, I would suggest Mo, June 2nd, 8:30 pm Middle European Summer Time, this will be 7:30 pm British Summer Time or 9:30 Eastern European Summer Time. I would vote for Hunters & Gatherers as the main game and Jaipur and Torres as candidates for the "side dish" of the week.
I guess you mean Monday May 2nd?
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Hounk on April 30, 2016, 06:45:11 AM
Sure, thanks, corrected that.
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Hounk on May 02, 2016, 02:17:40 AM
So nobody is really interested or appears to have time today. Maybe we'll postpone it for Wednesday?
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Hounk on May 04, 2016, 11:45:11 AM
Well, I'll be in chat right now, in case somebody wants to play a game.
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on May 08, 2016, 07:44:27 AM
I'd really like to try BrettSpielNetz's Implementation of Carcassonne:The Castle tonight - anyone fancy it?
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Hounk on May 21, 2016, 02:38:11 PM
There will be a "H&G" tournament (http://www.yucata.de/de/Forum?ForumID=11&postid=96498#96498) at Yucata. I might take part, although it will probably drag, because players just have to commit, that they will make "one or more moves per day". It will be a team-tournament of 2 players each team and only 4 games for each team, so I think, this is durable, and promisses fun due to the mode and competition with other players. So anybody here to form a "Team CarcCentral" with me?
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: daliles on May 22, 2016, 12:35:05 PM
Sure, I signed up on yucata, that will be great. I am daliles on there as well.

Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Hounk on May 24, 2016, 08:53:53 AM
Cool, you'll have to confirm in the thread there, though.
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: JoeSesquipedalian on June 13, 2016, 02:13:16 PM
I am now on Yucata!  My name there is Sesquipedalian.  Feel free to start a Carc H&G or Carc South Seas game with me.  I also started playing Cacao, Roll Through the Ages and Can't Stop!   What an awesome site!  Thanks Decar for the info!!
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: ny1050220 on June 13, 2016, 05:43:18 PM
I am now on Yucata!  My name there is Sesquipedalian.
First step first, buddy list requested!
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on June 17, 2016, 05:45:06 AM
Split Topic - South Seas Tournament on Yucata (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2789.0)
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on June 17, 2016, 05:47:59 AM
I've been playing an epicly long game of Carcassonne The Castle against someone at brettspielnetz.  The first move was on the 10th May.

I managed to win 98 : 77.  I got +10 bonus tiles and my opponent seemed to forget about scoring markets at the end of the game and also played many tiles into the Keep meaning they lost a few points (11 down to 6) for scoring the largest house.

It's the first time I've played the game and appreciated the strategy - it was a close game.

You can see the game replayed here if you're interested:
http://www.brettspielnetz.de/carcassonne/show.php?gamenumber=1197691
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: JoeSesquipedalian on June 22, 2016, 09:00:01 AM
I found it!!!   What is it?, you may ask.   I found an online version The Castle in English!   I played a couple games on brettspielnetz.de, but being entirely in German I felt like I couldn't quite follow everything that was going on.  It was very tedious.

The English site seems almost identical as brettspielnetz.de, except for English and different colors.

Sign up for an account at yourturnmyturn.com    -   http://www.yourturnmyturn.com

By the way, Carc: The Castle is just listed as 'Carcassonne', but it is indeed The Castle.

I'm Sesquipedalian on yourturnmyturn.com, so find me if you want a game.   :black1-meeple: :neutral-meeple:

Enjoy!
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on June 22, 2016, 01:32:30 PM
It's brettspielnetz or no Spiel for me I'm afraid and though it's similar the accounts are not shared :(
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: JoeSesquipedalian on June 24, 2016, 08:29:38 AM
I only mentioned it because I really wanted to play The Castle online but the German made it quite difficult for me to play on brettspiel.  Hopefully some other English speakers will find yourturnmyturn.com useful as well.   :green-meeple:
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on June 24, 2016, 11:13:37 AM
Yes indeed! I meant to add a link to the first post. Thanks for the reminder!  :)
Title: Re: Other Online Games - Carcassonne Spin-Offs
Post by: Decar on August 17, 2016, 06:15:21 PM
I've played 3 games of Carcassonne The Castle: on brettspielnetz against the same opponent now:

Amazingly, I've won all 3 games - the last one was pretty close by all accounts, but I was sneakily able to rob my opponent of 2 Castle Tokens.  The first time by scoring just enough points to snatch it, the second by completing one of their features for a few points making them overshoot.  The trick to winning is definitely grabbing the tokens, a lot of them seem overpowered to me.  Being able to score x2 for Towers allowed me to earn 24points in the last game and having the tokens to score incomplete features doesn't make the end game nearly as stressful.  I think the keep is extremely underpowered too.  You're lucky to score 7 or so points for the keep after all the hardwork for completing a big house worth 1 point per tile.

You can see my games here:
http://www.brettspielnetz.de/carcassonne/show.php?gamenumber=1218611

http://www.brettspielnetz.de/carcassonne/show.php?gamenumber=1233846

Asynchronous play for the win!