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Official Rules / Re: Complete Annotated Rules v. 7.0, 2nd printing
« on: June 22, 2014, 09:28:41 AM »
Two little comments:

A:
page 16 footnote 12:
'features are considered to be complete as soon as the tile is placed' [before follower placement and scoring]

page 56:
'[using the magic portal,] the follower may not be deployed to a[...] completed feature]'
footnote 148:
'whether it was scored or not'

Therefore
page 84 footnote 272 (repeated in page 89 as footnote 289) is wrong:

"Question: Imagine I have an unoccupied cloister next to an occupied cult place. I place a tile
with a magic portal which completes both buildings, and choose to use the magic portal to deploy a
monk to the cloister. Does this declare a challenge, and if so, who wins?"

The newly completed cloister cannot be occupied using a magic portal, given the interpretation that features are extended/completed at the moment of tile-placement.

B:
page 18 footnote 27: '1 point per road segment'
perhaps change this to something like '1 point per tile that the road occupies', as more than 1 segment of a road can be on the same tile. (Maximally 4 segments on a 4-way-junction tile, with a Catapult 4-way road.)

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News and Events / Re: Spiel 2013 at Essen
« on: November 02, 2013, 02:25:54 PM »
(Thank you for the support from some of you. Still feeling very distressed after a week.

At many stalls I would stand at the counter, the counter-person would (pretend to) be busy doing some other things, and then served customers who arrived after me. I knew that it wasn't a language problem, because often they would be speaking in English with those other customers. And then there were the people whom I wanted to ask questions from, and then they would pretend to have not heard me, or tell me that they were busy, or they had to ask someone else, and then forgot that I existed.

I remember there were two hotdog stalls, not very far apart from each other in the corridor between Hall 1 and 3.  One was staffed by a White middle-aged lady, and the other by a Black young lady. At least when I was there, the stall staffed by the White lady had a queue, and the stall staffed by the Black lady was empty. I chose the stall that didn't have a queue. I could tell from her tone, and her facial expression, that she hasn't been very busy that day.

I was there watching the German tournament for quite some time. (I saw some marvelous moves that I learnt from, thanks.) There was also a meeple-stacking table. People were invited to meeple-stack, but then perhaps I look uninterested, or perhaps I was invisible, I was never invited. At one point, I realised that I was standing at a position too close to the meeple-stacking table, and I would be in the way of people who wanted to meeple-stack. Before I had the chance to move away, the meeple-stacking table was moved away from me. Perhaps they were packing up, but then the table was certainly still there at its new location for quite some time, less than 5 steps away from its original location.

People whom I managed to get a response from were mostly polite, and I think most do not have overt xenophobic feelings. However, many seem to not know how to interact with a non-White person. This is quite different from the Germany that I knew; I've had extended stays in Germany, I live on the German border, I worked for a German research institute, and many of my current colleagues are German. This is one of the most scarring experiences I've had in Europe.)

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News and Events / Re: Spiel 2013 at Essen
« on: October 27, 2013, 04:44:41 AM »
As for me, I haven't felt so ignored as a non-White person for a long time.  I had an entire day of 'don't know', 'ask that other person', or 'I'll come back to you later'. The only person whom I managed to have more than one line of conversation was the Dutch national champion, who talked to me in a friendly, but slightly condescending manner, but at least he bothered to talk to me.

I made some purchases, but otherwise I gave up and went to Duesseldorf where people spoke to me politely in Japanese.

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News and Events / Re: The Wind Roses - how to get the prize?
« on: October 02, 2013, 11:31:38 AM »
 :D I feel so loved when I see an envelop from kettlefish in my letterbox today!  Danke schoen :meeple:!
(Hopefully I'll see you in, e.g., Essen!  I owe you beer, or some other similar consumables of your choice.)
Thank you to maik63de, Scott, HiG and Udo Schmitz as well!!!  ;)
(And I shall try to organise a big-ish game soon.)

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Reviews & Session Reports / Re: Tile sleeves
« on: September 23, 2013, 11:57:54 AM »
Ditto!
I've been thinking about getting sleeves for quite sometime.  Without sleeves, I am reluctant to take rarer tiles to other people's place, where they may have drinks on the table, or dirty hands from eating with their fingers.

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News and Events / Re: Spiel 2013 at Essen
« on: September 03, 2013, 12:47:13 PM »
Will likely come :).  (The weekend looks possible; it is hard for me to be 100% sure at the moment.)

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News and Events / Re: Spiel 2013 at Essen
« on: September 03, 2013, 12:42:43 PM »
Likely  :).

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News and Events / Re: Spielbox 05 2013
« on: September 03, 2013, 12:39:35 PM »
Read about this today.  Took sometime this morning compiling a list of colleagues who live (across the border) in Germany, and can help me save on postage.  It turns out that they are all not in today.  I couldn't be bothered e-mailing them and wait for their reply; I HAD TO pre-order it immediately, so I put down my own non-German home address.  (OK, the postage is not a lot more expensive; just trying to be dramatic.)

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General / Re: Low Countries meet up?
« on: September 03, 2013, 11:54:56 AM »
Hourra!  :D Private messaging you now.

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General / Re: Low Countries meet up?
« on: July 23, 2013, 02:47:41 PM »
Thank you for the reminder :D kettlefish; I will try to get there.  (I see that Carcassonne-on-Tour is mostly in the north and/or east for the rest of the year...)  That Burg looks slightly out of the way, but I can probably train and then cycle there.

I used to have to go to New Guinea quite often, and sometimes I stopped in Cairns on the way.  Cairns is such a lovely place.  I hope to be there again sometime in the future, harvster.

Joaquim00 is an Aucklander :), Andy.  But then I live on the other side of the earth now, and I don't get many chances to go back to the other side of the earth... :(

 




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General / Re: Low Countries meet up?
« on: July 22, 2013, 02:36:13 PM »
Australia is within range!  (My in-laws are in SA, and my folks are in NZ.)

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General / Re: Low Countries meet up?
« on: July 22, 2013, 06:02:38 AM »
Well, will contact you if I get to the states ;)  (Thanks for the reply :meeple:)

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General / Low Countries meet up?
« on: July 19, 2013, 03:09:50 PM »
(Let's see whether I get any responses...)

Hello Low Countries folks  :meeple:. I have moved back to the Netherlands recently. Would anyone in the area be interested in a friendly Carc meet up?  (I know there are forum members in the Netherlands, but I don't know how many are 'active'.)  I am based in Arnhem. Netherlands, Belgium and Nordrhein-Westfalen are day-trip-able for me, and I can venture further from time to time.




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Reviews & Session Reports / Re: TimeLapse - MiniCarcCup
« on: July 19, 2013, 02:34:35 PM »
(What are the pts there?  They don't look like the usual Carc scores...)

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General / Re: Highest scoring city
« on: May 15, 2013, 06:48:26 AM »
Not a real-life game (it was on JCloisterZone with computer players), but I was proud of my 111-points city:

http://imgur.com/a/nMi2x

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