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After my last move in China online, I felt shorted a bit on points. My stated road bonus is 11, but I think it should be 13, if my road chains were split up as shown here:
It appears that the northern road is scored for its maximum length, even though splitting into two shorter roads would garner more points. Is this standard China rules?
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Sight Reader
United States
Colorado
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garygarison wrote: It appears that the northern road is scored for it's maximum length, even though splitting into two shorter roads would garner more points. Is this standard China rules?
Hmm... playing face to face, we let the owner pick which route to take so this never comes up. To add to my ignorance, I've only played online once.
Sounds like the scoring algorithm needs to be more flexible: I would think you'd want maximum usage of houses rather than longest road. The exception, of course, would be a road containing a fortress.
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Jason Sugiuchi
United States
Orlando
Florida
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Branches don't count so that top road only scores for it's longest uninterrupted length (with the minimum being 4 of course). Standard Wop/China rules. Nice chain by the way.
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Chief EGG Head
United States
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Branches don't count, you count the longest road
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But is it a branch if it's part of another road?
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Paulo Santoro
Brazil
São Paulo
São Paulo
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Branches don't count, AND you count only ONE road - the longest, of course.
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Chief EGG Head
United States
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garygarison wrote: But is it a branch if it's part of another road? Your separate roads in this example are all part of the same road. you take the longest straight chain, anything off of that is a branch
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Hmm...well, I lost by 3 points anyway, so the extra 2 wouldn't have made a difference.
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Romain Jacques
Canada
Gatineau
Québec
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PauloSantoro wrote: Branches don't count, AND you count only ONE road - the longest, of course.
You should count all roads that are at least 4 long. But when roads are touching like the main one in this case, it is a branch.
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Romain Jacques
Canada
Gatineau
Québec
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fmoros wrote:
And nobody asked Michael? I will.
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Romain Jacques
Canada
Gatineau
Québec
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He told me that he clarified this issue in a previous thread, but I can't find it. May be somebody more competent than me with the BGG research tool will.
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Michael Schacht
Germany
Frankfurt
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i answered this one before.
so, here is the correct rule interpretation by the designer:
In a network only the longest count.
(if there are more than one road in the network, still just the longest counts).
so, for the tactics: don't connect two sepreated roads (that would each count) to a network otherwise you'll loose points by that.
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Filipe Cunha
Brazil
Rio de Janeiro
RJ
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I have always played that wrong... -__-
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Mark Klassen
Canada
Mission
British Columbia
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Yes, I always make sure to emphasize to new players that you could potentially decrease your total road score by adding houses that connect roads.
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Posted Thu Dec 8, 2011 1:12 am
