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Title: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: mjharper on January 28, 2008, 03:23:47 pm (This one started over here (http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=227.msg1804#msg1804)).
Yes, folks, it is possible. And here is the proof: (http://homepage.mac.com/mjharper/carcbox.jpg) The two boxes for The Count have the river tiles in them, while the box for The River II has the Count tiles in it. Better use of space. And the bag with the meeples fits snugly alongside the tower dispenser. There are a couple of tiles which aren't included. Obviously, there's only one set of Count tiles, even though I've got there copies. And things like the duplicate King and Robber Baron have been left out, as well as the original lake and spring, that sort of thing. But it included every other tile from all the expansions to date, even the duplicates from King and Scout that are included in the 6th expansion. One end does stand proud ever so slightly, but otherwise it's a good enough fit until I find the perfect box, whatever that might be… Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Gantry on January 28, 2008, 03:30:16 pm I never would have believed it possible!
Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Wishmaster on January 28, 2008, 04:58:24 pm Well, well, well.... Photographic proof as well. Nice one!! (Bet you've still got all the other boxes neatly stacked some as well though!)
Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: mjharper on January 28, 2008, 05:04:54 pm Erm… I'm not sure… They take up space, you know… :-[
Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Wishmaster on January 28, 2008, 05:25:35 pm Erm… I'm not sure… They take up space, you know… :-[ Really? You binned them? Wow! I just couldn't do that!! Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Tobias on January 28, 2008, 05:49:56 pm until I find the perfect box, whatever that might be… This: http://www.serieborsen.se/spel/carc.html 8) Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: mjharper on January 28, 2008, 06:01:30 pm Erm… I'm not sure… They take up space, you know… :-[ Really? You binned them? Wow! I just couldn't do that!! until I find the perfect box, whatever that might be… This: http://www.serieborsen.se/spel/carc.html 8) But I currently have all of the pieces in the original box for one good reason: because there are no dividers, and I can arrange it however I want. The problem with that box is the same as for the CAR—HiG keep releasing new expansions, and every time they do there's a tonne of new stuff to fit in. Now, I don't know how much spare room—room for growth—the box has, but until I do, I'm not going to invest that much money in it. Beautiful, yes; but is it functional? Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Tobias on January 28, 2008, 06:05:17 pm Okay, I know about that one. Looks awesome. But… But I currently have all of the pieces in the original box for one good reason: because there are no dividers, and I can arrange it however I want. The problem with that box is the same as for the CAR—HiG keep releasing new expansions, and every time they do there's a tonne of new stuff to fit in. Now, I don't know how much spare room—room for growth—the box has, but until I do, I'm not going to invest that much money in it. Beautiful, yes; but is it functional? No idea. But since it has a reserved space for the Tower, I imagine you can fill that up as well, and that's quite a lot of space. But it's about €45 so it's not gratis. Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Novelty on January 28, 2008, 06:34:37 pm Wow, I've gotta go try this layout out. BTW, what are those orange blobs?
Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: meeplebot on January 28, 2008, 07:10:02 pm Wow, I've gotta go try this layout out. BTW, what are those orange blobs? do you mean the 2 things inside the box at the bottom? Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Scott on January 29, 2008, 12:13:58 am The CarcassonneBox has room for 70 additional tiles according to the web site. Should be enough to hold the two latest expansions with room to spare. I would love to get a CarcBox, but with shipping the price is over $100!
An alternative would be to make your own box out of wood and design it with room to spare. Although portability is an issue, for me it is not big enough to try cram everything into the main box. The obsessive-compulsive side of me can hardly bear the thought. Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: mjharper on January 29, 2008, 02:32:20 am @Scott: ;D
@meeplebot: Hey, long time no see! @Novelty: The orange blobs a a couple of piece kidnapped (meeplenapped?) from Caylus (http://Caylus), which I use to mark the largest city and the longest road on the scoreboard. Could use anything, but these work well. Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Joff on January 29, 2008, 02:38:19 am Quote @Novelty: The orange blobs a a couple of piece kidnapped (meeplenapped?) from Caylus, which I use to mark the largest city and the longest road on the scoreboard. Could use anything, but these work well. We use a brown meeple for the Robber Baron and a purple meeple for the King. They look the part! ;D For those interested they came from http://www.meeplepeople.com/ (http://www.meeplepeople.com/). We also use huts from the board game Clans for Kevin Graham's Trading Posts variant (which we include most games, as it is very unobtrusive). I have also rewrote his variant with comprehensive instructions for those who are interested. Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: mjharper on January 29, 2008, 02:57:14 am Quote @Novelty: The orange blobs a a couple of piece kidnapped (meeplenapped?) from Caylus, which I use to mark the largest city and the longest road on the scoreboard. Could use anything, but these work well. We use a brown meeple for the Robber Baron and a purple meeple for the King. They look the part! ;D For those interested they came from http://www.meeplepeople.com/ (http://www.meeplepeople.com/). We also use huts from the board game Clans for Kevin Graham's Trading Posts variant (which we include most games, as it is very unobtrusive). I have also rewrote his variant with comprehensive instructions for those who are interested. You should post it, you know…Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Joff on January 29, 2008, 03:09:29 am Quote You should post it, you know… Lol, as long as you don't think i'm stealing your CAR look! (I was, actually ;)) I kept the formatting very similar, as I thought I might attempt to collect the best variants together in a similar reference guide to CAR. How can I produce a pdf file, without spending £'s? Is there a simple way? At the moment the document is in MS Word format. Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: mjharper on January 29, 2008, 03:16:40 am Quote You should post it, you know… Lol, as long as you don't think i'm stealing your CAR look! (I was, actually ;)) I kept the formatting very similar, as I thought I might attempt to collect the best variants together in a similar reference guide to CAR. How can I produce a pdf file, without spending £'s? Is there a simple way? At the moment the document is in MS Word format. No idea. If I want a PDF, I got to 'Print' and then click 'PDF'. In any app. But that's a Mac for you. Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Tobias on January 29, 2008, 05:35:07 am You can export documents to PDF in Open Office, which is free :)
Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: O.M.S. on January 29, 2008, 05:56:25 am How can I produce a pdf file, without spending £'s? Is there a simple way? At the moment the document is in MS Word format. http://www.pdfcreator.de.vu/It will install new "printer" to your app. and than you can print (after chosen PDF Creator printer) any document(s) (word etc.) to PDF file(s). Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Novelty on January 29, 2008, 09:56:29 am @Novelty: The orange blobs a a couple of piece kidnapped (meeplenapped?) from Caylus (http://Caylus), which I use to mark the largest city and the longest road on the scoreboard. Could use anything, but these work well. I'm confused. Do you mean that if the longest road scored is 12, you use it to mark 12 on the scoreboard?Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Scott on January 29, 2008, 10:01:42 am Quote @Novelty: The orange blobs a a couple of piece kidnapped (meeplenapped?) from Caylus, which I use to mark the largest city and the longest road on the scoreboard. Could use anything, but these work well. We use a brown meeple for the Robber Baron and a purple meeple for the King. They look the part! ;D I'm using a brown city piece and a brown road piece "from" Settlers of Catan. Not actually from Settlers of Catan since I do not own the game. I drew them out on paper, guessing at the dimensions, and had my brother make them from wood scraps. Then I got my Mom to paint them brown to be distinct from other pieces. I like the idea of more user stuff in the CAR, but considering the vast amount of potential stuff out there, it could become uber long. Do you mean that if the longest road scored is 12, you use it to mark 12 on the scoreboard? That's the idea. Makes life a lot easier. Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: mjharper on January 29, 2008, 10:05:19 am Do you mean that if the longest road scored is 12, you use it to mark 12 on the scoreboard? That's the idea. Makes life a lot easier. Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Joff on January 29, 2008, 10:11:04 am Some prefer to play the markers (whatever they may be) dirctly on the longest road/city. However, we stick to laying our brown and purple meeples on the scoreboard as we find that the easiest.
Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Scott on January 29, 2008, 10:20:03 am If you lay the piece on the feature itself, you're still stuck recounting the size each time that someone forgets. Putting them on the scoretrack is indeed easiest, because it's the size that matters. Knowing which road and city it was is not relevant.
Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Gantry on January 29, 2008, 11:26:35 am Quote You should post it, you know… Lol, as long as you don't think i'm stealing your CAR look! (I was, actually ;)) I kept the formatting very similar, as I thought I might attempt to collect the best variants together in a similar reference guide to CAR. How can I produce a pdf file, without spending £'s? Is there a simple way? At the moment the document is in MS Word format. I have been slowly compiling all the variants I can find in a database (we call it the "Variant Registry"), an eventual bit of content for Carc Central. I'm not picky; they don't even have to be "good" to be included, what's more important is comprehensiveness. It's THE BIGGEST VARIANT REGISTRY ON THE PLANET!!!! (sorry couldn't resist!) ;D You can easily produce pdf files for free. I use PDF reDirect (http://www.exp-systems.com/) by EXP systems, but some other popular ones are Foxit (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/creator/), CutePDF (http://www.cutepdf.com/), and pdf995 (http://www.pdf995.com/) most of which I think are still free. They way they work is that they become a "printer", so you just go to File, Print, and they'll show up as a driver, then instead of printing the file it creates a pdf for you on your hard drive. As well, Adobe used to have an online service that you could sign up for that would allow you to create a small number of pdfs for free, but the other solutions are much less hassle, and no sign up. Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Wishmaster on January 30, 2008, 09:29:16 am Quote How can I produce a pdf file, without spending £'s? Is there a simple way? At the moment the document is in MS Word format. Download a copy of OpenOffice.org It's a completely free Office suite that reads .doc and you can convert to .pdf using it - Excellent product! Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Gantry on January 30, 2008, 11:02:14 am Yes, forgot to mention that one, indeed it is a good product.
Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: richardbrand on February 07, 2008, 05:01:12 am If you are using MS Office 2007 then you can download a free MS addon that lets you save as PDF:
http://tinyurl.com/v46jc Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Joff on February 11, 2008, 01:44:01 pm Does anyone own the Carcassonne Box?
This is the specially made wooden Carcassonne Box. They are cropping up on eBay at present and I was wondering about the quality of them. (http://www.carcassonneworld.co.uk/images/carcbox.jpg) Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Gantry on February 11, 2008, 02:04:17 pm Although i don't own any to verify the size, that box reminds me of an old photographic slide holder that a friend used to have, I wonder if tiles are similarly sized and would fit nicely in such a container?
Richardbrand: nice find! Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Scott on February 11, 2008, 07:29:51 pm I just happened to have a photographic slide nearby, and it is 5cm square. Carc tiles are 4.5cm square. It might be possible to modify photographic slide stuff to fit Carc tiles by adding a quarter of a centimeter of padding.
Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: richardbrand on February 12, 2008, 04:49:09 am Although i don't own any to verify the size, that box reminds me of an old photographic slide holder that a friend used to have, I wonder if tiles are similarly sized and would fit nicely in such a container? Richardbrand: nice find! Thanks :-) It was going to be built into Microsoft Office 2007, but legal bickering between Microsoft and Adobe put an end to that... I like the slide case idea. I think my Dad might have some of those boxes around - I'll have a look. Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Tobias on February 18, 2008, 03:10:27 pm More info on the box: http://www.carcassonnebox.com/
Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: skipboris on February 25, 2008, 01:56:26 pm I don't know if this is old news, but it was news to me. I emailed the folks over at catanbox (makers of carcassonne box) and asked about the possibility of shipping to USA. Here is their reply:
"I can send it but it is at your own risk. The damaging during transport will not be our responsibility. The costs will be around 25 euro for shipping only. Also we are working with Mayfair to try and get them in the USA as well by the end off the year." (Bold mine) If this is true then this will definitely be my solution. Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Scott on February 25, 2008, 06:33:34 pm I suspect the same goes for Canada. I'd much rather buy one of these than attempt to make my own.
Title: Re: How to get 12 expansions into the original box Post by: Wishmaster on February 26, 2008, 05:39:59 pm I notice that the site also says there is room for a further 70 cards. Not sure about extra pieces though. Looks good. I've emailed for a UK P+P price.
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