the tile being placed only accepts direct placement
After placing a Magic Portal tile, you may place a meeple on that tile (a) or on any other previous placed tile (b). When doing so, you must follow all other placement rules. For example, you may not place a meeple in an already occupied or completed feature.
Magic portals add more options for meeple placement but do not redefine the basic mechanics of the base game. Let me explain...The rules say (added a couple of calls for later reference):QuoteAfter placing a Magic Portal tile, you may place a meeple on that tile (a) or on any other previous placed tile (b). When doing so, you must follow all other placement rules. For example, you may not place a meeple in an already occupied or completed feature.Regarding placement, option (a) refers to the normal placement as defined in the base game (direct placement). Option (b) refers to the new placement mechanics (magic portals) and the conditions after this point refer to option (b).There is a key point here: option (a) allows you to claim unoccupied features just completed, for example, a monastery just placed in a 8-tile hole, or a 2-tile unoccupied city just completed. So you can always do more with direct placement, that is, option (a).For example, magic portals (option (b)) will not allow you to complete an unoccupied monastery on an adjacent tile, occupy it and score it. So there is an extra ability with an additional limitation.Note: Magic portals presents the same limitations as flying machines: the flying machine tile cannot be completing the feature you want to occupy.
This was one particular point that I wanted to verify for its implications. Just that. The actual question was: "closed field" = "completed field"? The answer was simply no. Now I can sleep better at night because there is no room for doubt in this case.
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