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Collaborative Carcassonne
« on: September 26, 2018, 07:33:58 AM »
Ladies and gentlemen, this is your invitation to take part in a unique Carcassonne experience as a community, where we will share our thoughts/ experience on what best to do with each tile that we get to place in a 4-player game of Carcassonne with no expansions. :blue-meeple: :green-meeple: :red-meeple: :yellow-meeple:

All you need to do is follow this thread and contribute with your thoughts on what you'd do if you were in the position that we find ourselves in with each tile that we get to place. I'll track scores and will post what our opponents do with each update of the developing landscape, with the intention of collectively outwitting them all to win the game! ;)

My hope is that it will be something a bit fun that we can all contribute towards and potentially learn from by understanding the thought processes going on inside the heads of others when we're all faced with the same decisions to make. If we can't agree on what best to do with our turn then we'll settle it through a vote, but I'm looking forward to seeing how things turn out and considering different options to those that I'd normally consider when playing by myself.

Please ask if you have any questions. Otherwise you can expect a screenshot of the starting position to be posted here very soon, so have your thinking caps at the ready! C:-) :(y)

Linkback: https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=4084.0

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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #1 on: September 26, 2018, 07:37:41 AM »
An excellent idea Dan. I hope that this gets plenty of interest.  :(y)

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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2018, 07:40:42 AM »
An excellent idea Dan. I hope that this gets plenty of interest.  :(y)

Thanks TheSteve, so do I! I think it could be quite an eye-opening experience for all of us, and a great place for newer players to begin to appreciate some of the strategy that isn't always immediately obvious.

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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2018, 08:02:49 AM »
Strategy - I thought you just needed to build a map complete with no holes?!

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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2018, 08:04:40 AM »
Strategy - I thought you just needed to build a map complete with no holes?!

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Only in the advanced rules.

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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2018, 08:06:31 AM »



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Only in the advanced rules.

Thought that was using farmers

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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2018, 08:16:28 AM »



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Only in the advanced rules.

Thought that was using farmers
Those are the optional rules Rich. Not the advanced.  >:D

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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2018, 08:55:36 AM »
So, will that be one tile per day, or variable when a consensus is reached?
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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2018, 08:56:36 AM »
And isn't the starting position already known?

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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #9 on: September 26, 2018, 09:01:37 AM »
So, will that be one tile per day, or variable when a consensus is reached?

I would prefer to leave longer than just one day per turn, but we'll see what the uptake is like. I expect the best placement in some situations to be more obvious than others, so I don't expect the same amount of discussion with each and every turn.

And isn't the starting position already known?

The starting position is known assuming we are the first player to take a turn as the starting tile will be the only tile on the table. But since we could end up being the 2nd, 3rd or 4th to place a tile the exact starting position isn't yet known, and won't be until the game begins!

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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #10 on: September 26, 2018, 09:35:14 AM »
I like the sound of this Dan, good idea

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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #11 on: September 26, 2018, 10:26:13 AM »
Will you press gang leven, merlin, MrNumbers et al. That way you can learn too Dan!  >:D
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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #12 on: September 26, 2018, 10:29:27 AM »
It's funny you should say that as I was thinking of giving them and Jere a shout to see if they'll join in too. Can't guarantee they'll share any of their secrets with us but I'm sure they'd have some very valuable contributions to make between them.

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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #13 on: September 26, 2018, 11:59:17 AM »
FAntastic idea. Looking forward to see it develop using the Hive mind!
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Re: Collaborative Carcassonne
« Reply #14 on: September 26, 2018, 01:05:55 PM »

The starting position is known assuming we are the first player to take a turn as the starting tile will be the only tile on the table. But since we could end up being the 2nd, 3rd or 4th to place a tile the exact starting position isn't yet known, and won't be until the game begins!

Oh, I thought we were going to analyse and decide for every tile, switching between the colours. So, the team will decide for one colour and we don't know which yet? That was also the reason I asked about the number of days per tile, as it would be around 70 days to completion if we analysed the placement of every tile.


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