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Messages - Weetek23
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« on: January 21, 2025, 01:38:14 AM »
Reading from my wishlist, I´d love to see HiG focusing on two things this (or any next) year:
- developing further game material for Winter Edition
- providing a viable C3 travel version of the game
But I actually do not put much of hope on any of the two...
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« on: January 19, 2025, 11:46:12 PM »
Yes, HiG are using the SdJ year (2001) for their counting.
Moritz told me this mainly started in 2010/2011, when they missed the 10th anniversary of the release of the game, and this was celebrated in 2011, so they stuck with it.
25th anniversary will be celebrated in 2026 from what he said
I was always scratching my head, not understanding the sophisticated reason behind the counting of the anniversary from SdJ title. If it was just missing the real year, then it is amusing :-D But I still cannot forgive the reluctancy to change the number 15 for 20 in the new edition of The Festival... 
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« on: November 23, 2024, 11:50:45 AM »
Indeed, I found two in my envelope and regarded them as getting inside by mistake. If Cundco give them away, I wonder what is the reason. Do not know their origin, not quite Carcassonne artwork, is it?
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« on: November 22, 2024, 12:58:14 PM »
While not impressed by the launch of the Advent sale, I must admit that I did not expect my order that had been placed on Tuesday to appear on my desk today delivered. A set similar to many these days, but rapid shipment! I hope the face mask that was included as a free gift is not a bad omen...  Well... to start with, I secured the Spiel24 tile which was my primary aim in the Advent Sale. Or at least my paid order summary says "Voucher SPIEL'24 Quantities 1" so I am hopeful. Otherwise, it was an odd and unnecessarilly stressfull experience. Like many, I spent my morning refreshing the Cundco webpage every now and then, at every quarter, half, full hour and tens of times in between while trying to work (not surprisingly, the experiment I was conducting did not come out very well...but that I cannot atribute solely to the Advent-sale-stress I am afraid :-) Hans may be "im Glück" but seemingly he is not in a same timezone as me since the webpage allowed placing orders well after midday and by no means in the morning anymore. I am not an IT person but ... does it really pose such a challenge for an eshop in the year 2024 so that the launch is so troubled?
Once it finally started, I made sure to quickly put into the basket the items I selected in advance (The WoH II, The Spring, Snakes and Ladders) plus The Autumn that I half expected and noticed earlier today at the HiG Facebook profile while searching for updates regarding the start of the sale, applied the Spiel24 voucher and paid while travelling by the Prague subway from one research facility to another. Only after receiving the confirmation of my payment I learnt that there were other, previously not advertised items on sale. While the cool and nowaday hard to come by tin boxes looked quite worth placing another order, I decided to grab a quick lunch first Bad choice - they are not available anymore. While one would make a suitable solution for storing some of my C1 items, I decided to stick to the optimistic fact that I will probably receive that so much desired tile 24 and forget about the Advent sale 2024 for now.
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« on: November 19, 2024, 05:25:53 AM »
Well... to start with, I secured the Spiel24 tile which was my primary aim in the Advent Sale. Or at least my paid order summary says "Voucher SPIEL'24 Quantities 1" so I am hopeful. Otherwise, it was an odd and unnecessarilly stressfull experience. Like many, I spent my morning refreshing the Cundco webpage every now and then, at every quarter, half, full hour and tens of times in between while trying to work (not surprisingly, the experiment I was conducting did not come out very well...but that I cannot atribute solely to the Advent-sale-stress I am afraid :-) Hans may be "im Glück" but seemingly he is not in a same timezone as me since the webpage allowed placing orders well after midday and by no means in the morning anymore. I am not an IT person but ... does it really pose such a challenge for an eshop in the year 2024 so that the launch is so troubled?
Once it finally started, I made sure to quickly put into the basket the items I selected in advance (The WoH II, The Spring, Snakes and Ladders) plus The Autumn that I half expected and noticed earlier today at the HiG Facebook profile while searching for updates regarding the start of the sale, applied the Spiel24 voucher and paid while travelling by the Prague subway from one research facility to another. Only after receiving the confirmation of my payment I learnt that there were other, previously not advertised items on sale. While the cool and nowaday hard to come by tin boxes looked quite worth placing another order, I decided to grab a quick lunch first Bad choice - they are not available anymore. While one would make a suitable solution for storing some of my C1 items, I decided to stick to the optimistic fact that I will probably receive that so much desired tile 24 and forget about the Advent sale 2024 for now.
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« on: October 20, 2024, 11:49:35 PM »
Never actually thought I would get this item but could not resist a fair, two-digit offer that seems a rare chance. Many thanks to biowanderer!
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« on: March 27, 2024, 02:45:45 PM »
Finally, completely unrelated, I just read that the Olympic Torch will pass through Carcassonne on the 16th of May. You can see the full route here.
A new mini "The Torches of Carcassonne"?
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« on: February 27, 2024, 12:19:11 AM »
Yesterday I was happy to find these Halflings II on my desk when coming to work, a great improvement of otherwise rather gloomy Monday :-D Many thanks to biowanderer for fair pricing and smooth shipment! I realized that this is an addition to C1 part of my Carcassonne collection after almost 2 dry years, narrowing my C1 wish list to only few items, none of which except Crop Circles 1 will I pursue to much.
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« on: January 25, 2024, 07:50:10 AM »
Congratulations to this lovely acquisition! This is one of my favourite game versions, partly because tit was one of few C1 items apart from the regular boxed expansions that was published in a local version here in the Czech Republic. I am very happy to have it and treat it cautiously, as the shape of the box makes it destined for a damage even when not shipped.
Your post brought back to me again the sheer disapointment that, when coverting The Festival to C3 art, HiG for a reason that I still cannot comprehend and feel as a chance badly missed did not use the occassion to make C3 version of The Festival updated to actual 20 years. Sigh...
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« on: December 11, 2023, 11:52:11 PM »
When it comes to the color: I remember that there is a sticker which you have to remove. The sticker might not be easy to detect. Only after that the real color appears
This sticker cover was so totally unexpected for me that when receiving my first flags from Cundco, I wrote them, complaining that the color of the flags is not the one I had ordered... Then I was kindly advised to peel the sticker off. In the end we ordered the three most played colors and for our guest players a set of scoring flags by The Game Crafter. The issue with the smoke smell was not too bad in either of these flags (the Game Crafter even packed in a neat notice, warning of "a camp fire-like smell for about a week"...). When we play with guests, these Game Crafter scoring flags are actually a matter of envy as they seem a bit fancier to my sons. I like them, too.
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« on: November 30, 2023, 02:36:45 AM »
I was not happy when my copy of The Bets came with no foil. The same happens for The Drawbridges?
Yes, The Drawbridges were in no foil, just with a supporting cardboard, yet they arrived intact and well. What puzzles (annoys) me is that the rules are not included. There is a neat piece of paper which only bears a QR beside some illustrative words and pictures. I assume it is result of the rush with the publishing and at the same time fine tuning the rules because The Bets, a previous miniexpansion that I bought, came with a rule sheet.
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« on: November 29, 2023, 01:17:15 PM »
I guess many of us receive a same or similar package these days... :-D
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« on: November 21, 2023, 06:50:31 AM »
Very clumsy shopping. I was on alert the whole day. I was aware of the need to put in the "voucher" in order to get the Spiel23 tile ... and I did ... and after successfull payment, in the order information there was no mention of it. When I repeated the same order with a very same content and put the voucher code in again, the new order has it as "SPIEL23 1 0 EUR 0 EUR Voucher". Now I must cancel the Spiel tile-less order... What a mess EDIT: After a fast email conversation, my order that did not by mistake include the Spiel tile was swiftly canceled and the money returned. Well done!
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« on: February 26, 2023, 08:39:07 AM »
Just few minutes back, HiG released following status on their Facebook:
"Hoppla, was hat sich denn hier aus unserer Ideenschmiede geschmuggelt? Ihr erhaltet heute einen ersten Eindruck von unserem Prototyp der vertikalen Version von Carcassonne."
Plus a remark that they cannot tell approximate date when this new idea will be developed.
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« on: February 08, 2023, 09:01:51 AM »
I am sure that the novel had been already discussed back in the days when it was published, but just a brief question: is it a good one? I got it with my luckily acquired copy of WoF and as my highschool German is quite rudimentary, I wonder if it is worth trying.
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