Completely Annotated Rules - work in progress!

[mjharper]

So, here you go: 5.0 beta 7. As I said, the overview is chaos, and there are placeholders for Corn Circles onwards, so don't go printing this one out!

For whatever reason, the file size has increased (even though I removed things like graded backgrounds). It's about 10MB.

[Whaleyland]

Remember to add my new cover! Also, I can up the resolution some since that one looks pretty blurry. I just didn't want to add much size to the document. Also, if you have Adobe Acrobat, you can do a compressed save to try and save some space. If not, I've got the app and can try compressing the document for you.

Edit: Just tried optimizing the pdf and got it down to 4.9 MB. Much more manageable.

[CKorfmann]

"5.0 beta late then 7"
       

[mjharper]

Remember to add my new cover! Also, I can up the resolution some since that one looks pretty blurry. I just didn't want to add much size to the document. Also, if you have Adobe Acrobat, you can do a compressed save to try and save some space. If not, I've got the app and can try compressing the document for you.

Edit: Just tried optimizing the pdf and got it down to 4.9 MB. Much more manageable.

I think the cover looks blurry because it's already compressed a bit. So, for way of comparison, I uploaded a new version exported from Pages at 'Best' rather than 'Good'; the file is now 13.3 MB. And it looks fine, I think.

I don't have Acrobat, but I can do something similar with Preview, although there aren't any options for customization. The resulting file is 7.1 MB, but looks rubbish...

Perhaps Acrobat has a better result? I'm becoming disinclined to use heavily optimized versions anyway, now that most people have broadband and downloading gigabits of movies and games is commonplace... The original plan was to have a version for quick download and one for printing, but do we really need that anymore? Shouldn't there be just one file, which looks as good as possible?

[Joff]

Looks good. I have not had tie to check through, but one small error that I saw:

Page 76 - Into text - "Travelling traders arrive in the land an organise bazaars, in which haggling is considered an art. At the same time, engineers are expanding the road network with modern bridges, and small castles are being built everywhere to defend the region."

[mjharper]

Thanks. Corrected

Two questions:

• I was just looking through the Spielbox with Crop Circles and there's an overview of Carc expansions. The Tunnel is listed as coming before The Wheel of Fate - I don't remember that being the case, but perhaps someone has a better memory than me...?
• One of the tiles from Crop Circles has a T-junction which looks to me like it's open rather than closed. Any opinions?

[Whaleyland]

I don't mind the tile being large. You are definitely correct in stating that larger files are becoming more the norm.

Oh, and that Crop Circles tile is DEFINITELY a continuous junction. There's nothing blocking the intersection.

[CKorfmann]

Are you talking about the road or the field on the RRRR tile?

[mjharper]

The frrr tile.

[CKorfmann]

My bad, I thought we were still talking about the Tunnels.  Sorry.

I'd agree it looks open.

[The Broox]

Matt, RGG has taken to publishing PDF version for their rules on their web site. For your convenience I have linked the Big Box 2 and Big Box 3 rules below. All the other can easily be found by poking around the RGG website.

http://www.riograndegames.com/uploads/Game/Game_304_gameRules.pdf
http://www.riograndegames.com/uploads/Game/Game_366_gameRules.pdf

If you do plan on crediting me please do so as "Brooks Child" or "The Broox". There is an extra "o" in my name at BBG and I can't figure out how to change it. I am quite the rules lawyer and have been looking into bizarre cases from when expansions collide. It may be useful for you to look through my post history over at BGG.

[mjharper]

Thanks for that. I'll give them a looking over when I finish the translations and overview.

I wonder exactly what the sentence of that statement in Big Box 2 is. I mean, normally the collection would have been superseded by Big Box 3, but it doesn't contain The Count. Doesn't really matter, but your find is definitely worthy of mention

Edit: Had a quick scan of BB3 and noticed a bunch of stuff relating to Bridges, Castles and Bazaars. Does anyone know whether the HiG version also has such additional rules? Or does anyone have a link to the HiG editions?

[Whaleyland]

Ugh! After spending about 15 minutes looking around the web, I finally found German versions of the Big Box 2 and Big Box 3 rules. You may want to skim through BB2 rules for CK&C stuff and BB3 rules for updates on everything. Here's the webpage that has all the PDF links: http://www.maik-wegner.de/carcassonne/downloads.html. Obviously, click on the links for Deutsch.

[CKorfmann]

Did anyone notice the glaring error in tile placement for the illustration on page 14 of the RGG BB3 rules?  Kinda silly if you ask me.

I wanted to say also that a house rule I use for the barn is; pig meeple/no, pig tile/yes.

[mjharper]

Ugh! After spending about 15 minutes looking around the web, I finally found German versions of the Big Box 2 and Big Box 3 rules. You may want to skim through BB2 rules for CK&C stuff and BB3 rules for updates on everything. Here's the webpage that has all the PDF links: http://www.maik-wegner.de/carcassonne/downloads.html. Obviously, click on the links for Deutsch.

Awesome, thanks. I had a quick look but didn't find anything and decided to get back to translating Die Pest. Those will come in extremely useful later, though