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Reviews & Session Reports / Re: I Love the Landscape!

« on: September 21, 2023, 04:06:40 AM »

Welcome to the site, SailingMeeple. Not a silly question, at all!

Merits are used if you would like to give someone a bit of special thanks for a helpful answer, intriguing idea, new expansion, or something like that. Everyone has their own basis for awarding them.

You'll see a "Give Merit" link/button under the name in the left hand of a post, clicking on it adds 1 to their merit total. It's just for fun, as I'm unaware of any benefits, but perhaps gives an indication of people who have been around for a while and doing all sorts of "positive" things on the site.

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Unofficial Rules / Re: Fan Expansion List in WICA

« on: September 02, 2023, 08:12:10 AM »

This thread appears to be similar to another that has been used to announce updates and changes to the Fan Expansion Selector on WICA. This thread shouldn't be used in future, and any updates added on

https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=5825.0

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News and Events / Re: Wonders of the world new mini expansion announced

« on: August 18, 2023, 01:16:01 PM »

The cops will try and stop you "occupying" Stonehenge .... especially around Midsummer solstice

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News and Events / Re: Wonders of the world new mini expansion announced

« on: August 18, 2023, 07:56:44 AM »

... or "W" for Wolnic!

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General / Re: Big Box 7 C3 art with C2 cut?

« on: August 05, 2023, 09:07:16 AM »

We create the "master" pages in English (they have no language suffix in the URL), and then they are used as the basis for the translations. I think the translation module creates/modifies the "/en" pages automatically (I've not been involved in the translation side of things as my native language is English, so have ignored anything to do with it ...) but would have thought the title and comments should also be updated - maybe that's a manual tweak that's required? One of the others who do translations to their own languages can probably advise, although it's probably not something that needs to be discussed here!

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General / Re: Big Box 7 C3 art with C2 cut?

« on: August 05, 2023, 02:28:28 AM »

No problem. It's something I always forgot to do when editing pages. I took a look back at the EN page and it seems the FuzzyBot updated it shortly after I marked the page for translation. It seems that it performs automatic tasks as a result of translate actions.

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General / Re: Big Box 7 C3 art with C2 cut?

« on: August 05, 2023, 01:05:45 AM »

I've marked the source page for translation, as it hadn't been since the last edit to add the section about rounded corners. I'm not sure if the EN version is updated automatically by one of the Bot processes or has to be done manually.

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Unofficial Rules / Re: The Mount Of The Duke - Fan Expansion

« on: August 02, 2023, 05:10:21 AM »

Yes, I noticed that. I contacted the designer/author a while back with some questions about the rules but have not heard back from him, although I did get a reply when I initially made contact.

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General / Re: Need a link to the original Families expansion

« on: July 19, 2023, 07:38:10 AM »

BUT, I’m still not sure if these are the original Families tiles?

My understanding is that the oldest available version of rules and tiles for the Families/Family Feud series is the one on BGG :-

Families v3

Did you have a look at that one? There must have been earlier versions - as far as I know they are no longer available anywhere, but the v3 rules mentions the addition of 12 extra tiles in v2. So I don't know what the original tiles were in v1 of Families!

After that, several Family Feud versions were released, the first by Novelty and Frédérick Renaud (I think it can be found on CarcF), and then it was expanded by JPutt927 to include the 2 extra families (the one you found, and mentioned above).

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General / Re: Need a link to the original Families expansion

« on: July 17, 2023, 04:42:42 PM »

Have a look on BGG. That’s where the v3 version can be found. I was sure I included a link on the previous thread. You can find links on the Expansion Selector on WICA - display all the expansions then use the browser search for “Family” or “Families”.

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Unofficial Rules / Re: The Mount Of The Duke - Fan Expansion

« on: June 25, 2023, 12:42:03 PM »

Welcome to the Forum, daveztpc2000.

I don't think that the tiles for this expansion were ever publicly available to download. I believe the tile sheets were privately printed in small numbers and then distributed.

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Unofficial Rules / Re: The Coast

« on: May 23, 2023, 03:39:32 PM »

PapaGeek, would it be possible to change the Subject of this thread to The Coast as there's a completely different set of expansions called The Ocean, and I feel it would be best to avoid any confusion.

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Reviews & Session Reports / Re: I Love the Landscape!

« on: May 23, 2023, 03:35:50 PM »

Thanks, that looks to be it. It was just I didn't think I'd seen it when creating the fan expansion data sets for WICA.

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Unofficial Rules / Re: The Coast

« on: May 23, 2023, 03:24:14 PM »

The open sea tile was simply to fill in gaps in larger lakes ... or fill in gaps along the coastline to make things neat and tidy (OCD tendencies). You can choose which of the 30 tiles to use, use all of them, or even make multiple copies of the tiles you like. I have a number of open ocean tiles with different designs - sea monsters, ships, compass rose, etc. - that I use to fill in gaps. Or you can use some of the island tiles from STS or MotO for this.

My original reason for creating The Coast was dissatisfaction with the original river end/lake tile, in particular that it wasn't geographically correct. So I created the river mouth tile, and some coast tiles that would create a section of coastline against which the regular landscape could be laid during normal play.

The reason for there being less "three-water-sided" tiles was that when creating a length of coastline, having too many of them might result in the creation of an island, or promontory, at the start of the game, possibly making an area of the playing area unusable because it would be sea. And I prefer to include unique tile designs, rather than multiples of the same tile within a set, especially where it is more generic than specific in mechanics.

If you want to keep the layout phase of the coast separate, you could print these and mount them on thick card (rather than blank tiles). I think having three separate rivers, and river mouths used might lead to a series of partially complete coast areas at different locations on the playing area - this might be OK for your group. Or you could have one sea coastline, and two smaller lakes ending the rivers. There are endless possibilities.

I included a few different images on the original thread for The Coast showing how the tiles might be used

https://www.carcassonnecentral.com/community/index.php?topic=2529.msg

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Reviews & Session Reports / Re: I Love the Landscape!

« on: May 23, 2023, 10:49:21 AM »

What's the brown tile next to the start tile in the centre of the board (picture)? I don't recognise it.