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Hi. First of all I'm fairly new here. I just got into exploring the help section so I could figure out how to post a new topic. This site is fantastic and it is awesome what you guys are doing here. I love CAR and the FAQ and all the fanmade expansions...and the discussions.

My question is about the wording of the rules for Famine in the WOF expansion. On the one hand it appears to score as the knights do for Taxes (that is, each knight earns points). On the other hand it says "(in the same way as farms are scored during final scoring)", which might imply cities are scored for the farm that any of my followers are on...one time. There seems to be a contradiction there and I am wondering how you guys play it. If I have 4 farmers on a single farm bordering 6 cities, do I receive 6 points or 24 points? If it's the former it would seem to be proportional to other scoring oportunities on the wheel. If it's the latter it seems like great incentive to pile followers on the bigest farm. I already think that farm scoring is weighted too heavy and tends to unbalance the game. This could compound the problem.
Here's the text from the rules:
"For each of his or her farmers, every player receives 1 point for every completed city adjacent to the farm (in the same way as farms are scored during final scoring)."

I think we all play with the standard interpretation that each farm, rather than farmer, is counted. However, you do bring up a good points. Perhaps we have yet another question for Hans im Glück?

It's as though the rule should read "For each of his or her farms", not "farmers".

We've been playing it that it's a point per city that borders the farm.  The number of farmers on each farm has no effect. 

We played last Friday for the first time and that is what we did.  We basically just stopped the game and scored the farms just like at the end of the game except one point per farm instead of three.  It seemed ok to us. 

We have always played it similar to Taxes, where every farmer scores for every city in their farm.

For each of his or her farmers, every player receives 1 point for every completed city adjacent to the farm (in the same way as farms are scored during final scoring).

Does anyone know if the original rules were written in English...or is it a translation from German? Could it be a translation issue?

That's how I play it.  It didn't occur to me to do otherwise.  Probably a good question to ask.