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Carcassonne iPhone/iTouch
- Thread starter AstroLad
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Oh that's weird, I was looking through my games to see folks to invite to a new one and noticed one that hadn't had a turn since yesterday, pop in and it's my turn, and yet there wasn't a notification outside of it of any sort. Hm. So I guess if you have a game that's been stalled a while, check to see it's not your turn! Never had that happen before. Didn't even have a Next Table option to get to that table.
When you get into 4-5p games there is a pretty heavy reliance on luck considering how many fewer pieces you get and how you can't possibly anticipate or counter what four other people are going to do. There's also a diplomacy element in that you don't want to let anyone run away with a huge city or anything but you don't want to fight wars with others on four different fronts. Part of what makes those games fun though!
I have those but haven't even played them yet. Just Traders & Builders and Inns & Cathedrals, both of which add some awesome options, like it being a viable move to close someone else's city, and then of course the battles over those inned roads and cathedraled cities get quite intense.
I've heard that the others are lesser regarded and right now we really have our hands full with those two expansions worked in (we usually play with 3). One of the nice things about Carc is how quick it plays, don't want to start shading too much into Agricola length :lol.
The big ones add about 15-20. I agree on the iPhone version it wouldn't really hamper anything (other than perhaps ranked matches) given the PBEM nature.DukeSucks said:
Just to give you a sense of how they really flesh out the base game though, here is a description of Traders & Builders:
Gatekeeper
Member
Ok, I'm down to 1 GAF game. Time to start up a bunch more!
Darkflight
Member
Yeah, I've been a bit slow due to actually trying to do some work today, but even when people are slow it's faster than WWF.
Much better.
-360 has more bells and whistles in terms of little graphical effects whereas the iPhone version is straight up (very nice, high-res) pieces from the board game being played on a table. I actually prefer the more understated iPhone approach.
-Just easier to move pieces around on the iPhone.
-Only quickplay/ranked option in iPhone is 2p. I don't play with randoms anymore but dsfdf.
-Far more people playing the iPhone version as you can see from this thread.
-The asynchronous multiplayer is absolutely HUGE for this game. Push notifications such that you can even see games and play turns while offline.
-360 has more bells and whistles in terms of little graphical effects whereas the iPhone version is straight up (very nice, high-res) pieces from the board game being played on a table. I actually prefer the more understated iPhone approach.
-Just easier to move pieces around on the iPhone.
-Only quickplay/ranked option in iPhone is 2p. I don't play with randoms anymore but dsfdf.
-Far more people playing the iPhone version as you can see from this thread.
-The asynchronous multiplayer is absolutely HUGE for this game. Push notifications such that you can even see games and play turns while offline.
Pic of czartim's GIANT point-filled city in our game. He had three guys in there and I had one. Thought there was no way he'd finish it so I paid it little mind until he got to be two pieces away then I was like rut roh. Wish you could do a FF gif of how it was put together.
AstroLad said:Pic of czartim's GIANT point-filled city in our game. He had three guys in there and I had one. Thought there was no way he'd finish it so I paid it little mind until he got to be two pieces away then I was like rut roh. Wish you could do a FF gif of how it was put together.
You still won though, probably because three of my guys were stuck on it the whole fucking game. :lol :lol
joeyjoejoeshabadoo
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Been out of te game for too long. I sent a couple invites to people who pmd me their addresses so long ago (sorry). If anybody would like to add me I'm game just pm me for my address.
AstroLad said:
Don't mention his luck! Argh!
We had a fight for a similar huge castle and after an amount of five henchmen invested on both sides I got the power back. There were three fitting pieces left for me to finish it, but I messed it totally up so he was able block the whole frick'n castle!!
:lol
Entertaining game though...
FoxhoundNL
Member
Hi Carc-guys,
bOoM here. It seems that the badge thingie for Carcassonne doesn't work properly. Anyone else experiencing this? I didn't know it was my turn in 4 or 5 games because there was no badge on the app in the iPhone's homescreen... Then when it is NOT my turn there is a badge.
Am I just interpreting this wrong or what's the dealio?!
LOVE Carcassonne though, I think this may turn out to be one of my best iPhone games (and I bought a lot of 'em), the multiplayer aspect in combo with notifications when it's your turn is AWESOME <3.
bOoM here. It seems that the badge thingie for Carcassonne doesn't work properly. Anyone else experiencing this? I didn't know it was my turn in 4 or 5 games because there was no badge on the app in the iPhone's homescreen... Then when it is NOT my turn there is a badge.
Am I just interpreting this wrong or what's the dealio?!
LOVE Carcassonne though, I think this may turn out to be one of my best iPhone games (and I bought a lot of 'em), the multiplayer aspect in combo with notifications when it's your turn is AWESOME <3.
That's happened to me once as well. Basically I had a game where there hadn't been a turn in a while -- go in, and it's my turn. Seems to be a glitch of some sort. Still is right 95% of the time for me but just to be safe I would suggest occasionally checking even your games where it indicates there's no new moves, especially if they've been quiet for a while.FoxhoundNL said:
Yeah, brown badge = someone else has played. Green badge = your turn. (Minus the occasional bug referenced above.)
Another bug that was mentioned ITT was that sometimes it will show up as your turn (and it will be) but you won't be able to actually see or do anything with your piece. /unstuck fixes this.
Another bug that was mentioned ITT was that sometimes it will show up as your turn (and it will be) but you won't be able to actually see or do anything with your piece. /unstuck fixes this.
Darkflight
Member
I think one of my favourite things is not loading this on my pad for a few days after just playing off my phone then loading an old game and seeing all the tiles place themselves :lol
SnakeswithLasers
Member
All I'm saying with my tile disposing issue is that I see "tiles get thrown away" while waiting for my turn. I thought others were disposing them--but now I understand that it's the computer automagically doing it since those tiles won't fit on the board.
Yah I posted my response in-game but really it's just tiles being placed "off-camera" that have that look. Not having any place to play a tile is very rare. Like I said in-game, if you want to see where people last placed their tiles, each last-placed tile has an outline corresponding to the placer's color.SnakeswithLasers said:
SnakeswithLasers
Member
That makes sense.AstroLad said:
I still don't really understand this game too much, as I just kind of throw down tiles when it's my turn, but for some reason it's compelling. I thought you could dispose of a tile and that I just couldn't figure it out. Glad to see you can't.
Yeah it's addictive because it's pretty straightforward. One of those minute-to-learn-lifetime-to-master-type things. Only thing people get hung up on is fields, but after a few plays even those are pretty clear. I do recommend Tutorial + Rules because the tutorial is good but a tad incomplete on some points.