Downloads - What's Your Opinion?

[mdjvz]

And I would join the Minority 
But... only if they advocate free downloads 

M.

[Novelty]

Yay, free downloads for all!

[Deatheux]

WOOOOOOOOO!!! great job tehre too very useful!!

i just finish to ajust the "points" by hand to fit with my edition! long tall job!

i also find an error in he instruction of my big box... on the farmer scoring. i'll add the page when i'll re-open the box!

[born74hl]

but where to get the password 

[Gantry]

but where to get the password 

Take a look in this forum at the 2nd stickied post from the top:  WHERE TO GET YOUR DOWNLOADS PASSWORD

[Foxman]

I may not have joined this fourm if I had not "had" to because of the downloads.

Really look at your goals and your barriers.

Goal: Get people to look at the forum, maybe even join it
Goal: Get people to download the FAQ.
Goal: Reward members

Barriers: having to sign up and get an account before downloading.

Suggestions:

* Leave the password on the downloads section
* Put a note IN the downloads section that says "Password available in our fourm"
* Leave at least one forum viewable to non-members (all might be now, not sure) in that forum have the stickied "password" thread with the password right in the thread.

Varients:
* Put the FAQ available for download and community stuff in the passworded downloads section
* if you do the above you could keep the existing password scheme (just put a note on the page to join the forum for the PW) or use the above suggested method.

Anyways I'm new here and thats just a few thoughts off the top of my head

[Gantry]

Thanks for that feedback foxman. We know of course that many people simply want the download but don't care much to say hello or contribute, which is fine. But it does bring people one small step closer to being able to post questions if they do decide. In the long run I don't think it matters all that much, we might scare off some people by having a members-only feature, but that number will be very small.

[Foxman]

Ok I'm new, just bought the (main) box set a couple of weeks ago.

Whats the deal with the carthers expansion?

Whats the deal with this expansion?

[Novelty]

The Cathars expansion was only publish in a german magazine (Spielbox) and is out of print.  It's rather hard to get.

[Wishmaster]

The Cathars expansion was only publish in a german magazine (Spielbox) and is out of print.  It's rather hard to get.

It only has four tiles but is also (IMO) one of the best expansion ideas.... of course being a bit rare also bigs it up a bit! 

[sigtaulefty]

I'm late, but I'm also new (yay first post)

I found the download password, but that wasn't the reason I signed on.  I signed on because I'm a big Carcassonne fan.  I have the rules for the Carc games I own, and the ones I have on order and pre order - it's nice to see the rules ahead of time, but it wasn't going to keep me from registering.

[Gantry]

You're not late, you're right on time, welcome to the community sigtaulefty!