too many tiles? what to do?

[Hypnotoad]

The table being the edge of the known Carcassonne universe sounded like a reasonable suggestion to me as well when I first read the rules, but after a few games of mega-carc, using all the expansions, it stopped feeling like it's universally a good idea.

It's quite easy to ruin someones features after a while, u can't necessarily predict which way the playing field will grow, and also it adds the table as a strategic element you have to keep track of. I don't really feel like the table has much to do with the game I'm currently playing.

Also, no matter what group I've been playing with, if I wanted to actually enforce this rule I'd have gone against a large majority of the public opinion. Most people I've played with seem to naturally feel like the table shape/size has little to do with the actual game,  but rather feel like moving the tiles is the way to go.

There's a lot of different configurations where one tile is just a few millimeters over the edge, does that count? Or is the hard limit when the tile can't balance on it's own. If you're allowed a few millimeters, who's the judge of what too much and what's not?

I feel like the game shouldn't suffer because you're using a smaller table or most of the interesting building takes place on one side. On the other hand if people aren't really keen on moving all the tiles I can understand using the rule for pragmatic reasons alone. Moving a huge mega-carc board towards the end is quite fiddly.

[canada steve]

Guys a response on this from the main people themselves.

"The rule means, you cannot remove already placed tiles from the 'board' to chance the game situation.
You may move the whole 'board' (if possible) and at the end of the game you are allowed, to take the tiles an put them back into the box.

Viel Spaß beim Spielen,
Georg Wild"

So no individual tile movement, as normal, but you can move the whole board if possible !!! Wow now that puts a whole new dimension to the game.

[BaLaClavaAa]

buy a piece of plywood to put ontop of the table to make it bigger

[Gantry]

I'm not really surprised at the ruling, so here's a heffalump: 

[canada steve]

   Thats funny Gantry