Okies, I finally had time to go over this. Most of it you've explained, there's just a couple of parts:
2. Does the extra scoring tile constitute a crossing and thus the end of a river segment? If so, then does the player that places the extra scoring tile have to specify which river segment his extra scoring fishermeeple is on?
Not sure I understand this one. The tile concerned is under normal rules for placement and stopping farming etc. so a fisher would only be able to supply one way along a river, albeit on both banks if possible.
I'm not thinking of it in terms of farming, but like roads. Roads have crossings like a bunch of trees or a farmhouse that basically mean the end of a road, and you count that crossing piece as 1 point for a road even though it ends the road. Likewise, is the bridge on the extra scoring tile a crossing? When you score points for each
section of riverbank, I am asking for a clarification of what a
section end is defined by. ie, a road bridge? the extra scoring tile's city bridge? the lake? spring? branch? etc.
1. The Double-end-capend-city cscs (extra scoring tile) from river II might make things a tad complex, as a few of the problems arose because of this tile. The Extra Scoring paragraph description says that it "allows the player who lays it to fish both sides of the riverbank". What if there's already a fishermeeple down the river on one or both sides of the river on that river segment? Does one or both sides have to be free of fishermeeples in order for this to be played?
This tile is like I say an extra scoring one as the fishermeep is in the city fishing from the bridge not on the riverbanks so this allows for him to supply cities on both sides providing that no meeple are already there.
Still I need more clarification, when in your last sentence you say "...already there." - where is "there"? The city bridge crossing or there as in somewhere along the river segment adjoining the city bridge crossing?
3. If no one plays a fishermeeple on the Extra Scoring Tile, but there is a fishermeeple on each side of the river somewhere along the same river segment belonging to one player, does the city count once for each fishermeeple (on each side) or just once for the player?
Scoring of the tile if there is no meeple on it is as normal, it only counts for extra if there is someone on it. Treat it as normal otherwise.
Still unsure, in your rules you state specifically, "...that allows the player who lays it to fish both sides of the riverbank". This sentence piece to me is unclear in 2 ways. Firstly, the points are awarded to the person who lays the tile? Do they need to place a fishermeeple or just the tile? Secondly, when you say "the riverbank", do you mean the entire riverbank segment (many tiles stretching in both directions upstream and downstream) or just the riverbank on that 1 tile? Perhaps more clarity in this sentence would help.
4. The rest of the questions are clarifications in the paragraph titled "Scoring". The 2nd sentence starts, "For each section of riverbank...", does a section curve around a spring or lake tile and continue on or are they considered the end of a section?
Springs and lakes mean that they can be coninued around as per normal.
5. What about the branch tile, is the straight side a continuation and the 90-degree river turn continuable, or is the 90-degree river turn the end of a river segment?
Again not sure what you mean by this one. As previously mentioned you cannot fish the branch as the current is considred too fast.
These two answers seem to contradict one another. On one hand you say springs and lakes can be "continued around as per normal" which implies they do count as a section for the range of the fishermeeple. Yet in the next answer you say "you cannot fish the branch" which means that they do not count as a section for the range of the fishermeeple.
8. As per #7, does the spring count as a river segment if a city is with 3 direct squares of it?
I stated in the rules that you cannot fish the spring or the branch.
I realize that, I'm not asking if you can fish the spring or branch, I'm asking if it counts as a river segment. If it does, then I can count cities within 3 squares of it. If not, then I cannot count cities within 3 squares of it. Again, this goes back to whether or not a branch or spring counts inclusively as the end of a segment, or exclusively.
I think that it is probably very clear in your mind since it is your idea, but reading it, it isn't clear. There are 2 issues in general that I have a difficult time grasping, maybe due to the wording. It really all boils down to these issues:
1. What constitutes a "section of riverbank" and what does not, and
2. Are those "sections of riverbank" identical in terms of placing a fishermeeple on them vs counting them as a tile to measure the distance from when counting cities within 3 squares?
