First Game of Mega-Carc

[edmil]

I just hope that co-pilot isn't playing carcassonne at 20,000 ft or determining where to place that yellow meeple as he's coming into land.

Or another thought is this a new airline navigation system???/

[Tobias]

I think the tile placement difficulties are due to having way too many expansions in play at one time.

Not the amount of expansions per se, but rather the amount of player made tiles. It is much harder to fit forest tiles (for example) into the mix, since one, or more, sides of the tile will be locked.

Playing with 1000 tiles in it self is not a problem - nor is it to play with player made tiles where the sides match the game. (Lousy explanation but you get what I mean).

[Albinoasian]

wow I have to give props to anyone that even attempts this many expansions together, for myself though any more than 5 expansions, and I cannot keep my head around the rules, and some of the complications of which rule comes into play first.

[Novelty]

You can always play with the tiles from the expansions without using the special rules.  That's handy when playing with the P&D tiles, for example, but not with the fairy or the dragon to simplify the game.

[bufferm44]

Hi all,

here are some more pictures from sessions,

the problem - also if using only one expansion - is always that new tiles are not matching on all sides and the game gets holes...

[Novelty]

I think there are too few Lake tiles... I should add some more

[Gantry]

Am I the only one that first looks to see what people are drinking? 

[CKorfmann]

I noticed some of the forest tiles are much darker than Novelty's usual ones.  Is that a different set?

[bufferm44]

Yes - you can see a it better here in the first picture:

http://www.carcassonnecentral.com/forum/index.php?topic=728.msg8889#msg8889


Here are some informations about it..

The other fan made expansion is "the forest", but it looks completely different than yours. I bought it on eb*y but the quality was as worst as could be, so I asked the seller for the original files and promised not to distribute it. He mailed me the the file and I scaned the original cards and copied the forest (have you ever done a selection of a forest in photoshop? ) into the new scaned cards.

And after that I found this community, now I will rename "my" forest indo rainforest and "your" forest will be "normal forest" :D

[CKorfmann]

Is there any way I could get ahold of that scoring program that you have.  I think it would make scoring so much easier!  Did you make it or get it from somewhere else.  I'd love to get it! 

Also, how many tiles can you fit in that tower of yours?

[CKorfmann]

I played my first game of Mega-Carc today!  It was great fun, probably because I won!  Blue does it again!     We played with all the sets in my Big Box 2 (Base, I&C, T&B, P&D, A&M, King, Count, Cult, River 2) plus the original River, Catapult, GQ11, Cult & Siege (haven't done anything with Creativity yet).  Incidentally, I had an extra tile included in the first Count set I bought in a tuck box.  It was the river tile from River 2 with the pig farm on it.  Not sure why it was in there, but I use it.  The color on it is quite different on it though.  You can see it in this picture right after the split.  I forgot to take a picture while the wood was still on the board. 
 
We were all very surprised at how few holes there were.  As far as true holes, there were only three and they were filled with Abbey tiles at the end. 

[Novelty]

Was it a 4 player game?  What's the max score?  Also, there's an illegal placement of 2 cloisters next to a shrine to the right of the City of Carcassonne.

[Whaleyland]

Also, there's an illegal placement of 2 cloisters next to a shrine to the right of the City of Carcassonne.

It's not illegal if one cloister was completed first. In that case, the shrine lost the battle and the meeple was removed, thereby allowing a second cloister to be placed next to it. Although, there are at least three instances of this same thing happening. Hmm...

[Novelty]

It's not illegal if one cloister was completed first. In that case, the shrine lost the battle and the meeple was removed, thereby allowing a second cloister to be placed next to it.

I don't think that is correct.  The rules state:

"A player may not place a cult place adjacent to several cloisters, nor may a player place a cloister adjacent to several cult places."

It doesn't say anything about either being occupied or in a challenge or anything.

[Skull One]

It's not illegal if one cloister was completed first. In that case, the shrine lost the battle and the meeple was removed, thereby allowing a second cloister to be placed next to it.

I don't think that is correct.  The rules state:

"A player may not place a cult place adjacent to several cloisters, nor may a player place a cloister adjacent to several cult places."

It doesn't say anything about either being occupied or in a challenge or anything.

I concur with Novelty, we just had that condition come up yesterday.  My coworker and I read the original rules, CAR and BB2 rules (shutter) and they all basically boiled down to "You can not place one near two of the other".