I'm certainly no obervet...
For example, a few of the writers seem to be under the impression that cloisters are like a golden ticket that mustn’t be wasted because of the potential for scoring points. I don’t agree with this as the risk of permanently losing a meeple is too great. I have problems with the assertion that you shouldn't place farmers too early either as I think this depends entirely on how the game develops. This isn't up to me though, nor should it be, so if anyone else disagrees with this then feel free to chime in now!
My reservation with including bits from other strategy guides found on the internet is that I don't always find them very helpful. This is a personal thing, but much of the advice will be obvious to anyone who has played more than a handful of games, and a lot of the rest is questionable (in my opinion at least - or maybe I’m just being unnecessarily pedantic?). For example, a few of the writers seem to be under the impression that cloisters are like a golden ticket that mustn’t be wasted because of the potential for scoring points. I don’t agree with this as the risk of permanently losing a meeple is too great. I have problems with the assertion that you shouldn't place farmers too early either as I think this depends entirely on how the game develops. This isn't up to me though, nor should it be, so if anyone else disagrees with this then feel free to chime in now!
I do quite like the idea of using a blog as a tool for helping to drive content generation but this would be a Carcassonne Central project so it would be better to try and keep it on Carcassonne Central if possible. There's no reason why we couldn't have a sub-forum somewhere if this idea takes off, and submit each contribution as a new post there. Anybody can post, and anybody can provide feedback.
The way I see the process going is:1. Someone decides to write about, or is assigned, a certain topic related to strategy - let's say, 'To claim cloisters or not?'2. That person starts a new thread in a sub-forum and posts their write-up.3. Others in the community give feedback, opinions etc.4. The original author eventually posts an edited version, taking the feedback into account.5. If everyone is happy with it, it then moves into 'published' form.
If the review is going to happen here on CC and the publication will be on a blogging site there will likely be extra time/effort that needs to be spent copying, re-uploading images (of which there are bound to be plenty), and possibly reformatting the post to clean it up (due to differences between the way CC and the blogging platform handle text/HTML). This will need to be done for every post, and will get tiresome quickly.Most blogging sites have tools that support the suggested collaborative review process from start to finish. I'm familiar with WordPress, and it looks like Blogger has similar tools. Having the entire process happen on one site (I'd suggest the blogging site, which is optimized for authoring and sharing content articles whereas CC is a forum optimized for threaded discussions) would eliminate this extra work to re-publish the post after someone already worked hard on getting the images, formatting, etc. right the first time through. That way when the post is "done" the author or administrator just needs to flip a switch and it's published in the format everyone already reviewed.
OK. Here are some topics I can tackle...Protecting your cities as you buildWays to join fields (or block your opponent from joining fields)Considering net points per tile in your strategy (e.g., is it better to build a new road or a road around your opponent's cloister?)Maximizing use of the Abbot (Carc 2.0)Carcassonne probabilityPlease let us know when the new forum is available!
I'm also going to cheat a bit by including old posts such as the one I posted specifically about tactics for games with more than one opponent. I think it's on General somewhere...
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