Something that I'm not going to do a very good job explaining, is that using city caps to simply score 4 point cities means that they're not being used to close larger cities that score a lot more points. Dangos with lots of open edges have less potential to be closed off and score; well placed caps can mean they're being used to their full potential.
I'll try and explain this another way: If you have 4 tiles which are caps, you might score 8 points. But If I had 1 cap I might almost have a closed city with 10 points, because of a pennant, and the potential to score 14 in another turn or two, where as the other player need to start something new again.
Farming does convolute things, but there's as much chance of either player getting those 4 pt cities, and usually when they clump together they leave big opportunities to glom together.
So I'm a big advocate of keeping the simpler rules, even if the original or 2nd edition ones were more balanced, as I suspect they become much-of-a-muchness when considering the strategy of all 3 sets of rules.
I suspect a pro-player, (or
@danisthirty) would have some good insights into how these pan out during games.
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