Martin Black
Czech Republic
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Say I own two fields at the end of the game which share one city. One of the fields has a pig on it. According to the rules, I can only score a city once. Which field do I score it for though? On the pig field, I get 4 points whereas on the other field only 3 points. Any ideas?
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Klaus Brune
United States
Torrance
California
HEY! That TICKLES!
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You score a city once per field (in the latest rules editions anyway), so 7 points total as both cities in your example would score.
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Martin Black
Czech Republic
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That's odd. I have rules in the Czech language and they clearly state (with a picture example) that you can only score a city once when it's shared between multiple fields. However, I just looked at the original Rio Grande rules in English and they say you score the city twice. Then I looked in the big box edition rules and they say you score twice, but the picture shows scoring two farmers only once for a shared city (I.e. getting 8 points for three farms).
carcassonne rules: www.riograndegames.com/games.html?id=48
big box rules: www.riograndegames.com/games.html?id=50
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Kevin Salch
United States
Bristol
Connecticut
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The rules changed, First in Germany, Then in the US
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Martin Black
Czech Republic
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Changed to what? Scoring double or not?
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Kevin Salch
United States
Bristol
Connecticut
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Actually hadn't looked at the big box version.
It looks like Rio Grande has muddied the waters.
Originally Carc used 4 points per city where each city only scored once for one player (or 2 if tied) also 2 piece cites scored 2 points rather than 4 points.
This was changed (simplified?) first in Germany to 3 points per farm and each farm was scored separately. So a city could score points for multiple farms and multiple players.
Rio Grande eventually adopted the revised rules.
Now with the big box rules they went the other way.
Strange.
I would say to agree on a method of scoring and make sure everyone agrees before you start a game. I like the farm version (3 points per city each farm scored independently) as it seems easier to remember.
(it's a game after all) 
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Martin Black
Czech Republic
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3 points per every city sounds swell to me
 Cheers!
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