SpielByWeb

[greyshoe]

This is the stated rule on scoring for water tiles

"Points for water tiles. Each water tile on the board is scored one at a time. For each land and/or animal tile which borders a water panel tile, the owner scores 1 point, whether the water tile was on the board at the start of the game or has been added later. It doesn't matter which player placed the water tile. "

Reading that my understanding is that it is the "water tile" that is scoring, not the animal or land. If that is true, animals and lands should be able to score multiple times if they are touching multiple water sources. But Im not seeing that in the scoring. It seems to only score a given land or animal once. Case in point, my last game finished. http://www.spielbyweb.com/game.php?games_id=98528.

My 2nd half water score was 22 points. But my understanding of the rule it should be 27 points.


Do i not understand the scoring correctly or is the water tile scoring constantly buggy?

[tripitaka]

i see it as 22 greyshoe.

7 for the 2 water tile at -4,14.
1 for the water tile at -3,11
3 for the water at -3,18
6 for 3 water at 6,12 and
5 for the 2 water at 7,9

= 22

where are you seeing the other 5 points?

[greyshoe]

The rules dont say each animal/land is scored one at a time. it says "each water tile on the board is scored one at time". therefor you should score x times for each water tile you have a land/animal touching. This results in animals/lands being counted more than once if they are touching more than one water tile.

Ive gone over that rule over and over and i just seems that is precisely what it is saying.

If the intention is that each animal or land can only score once, it certainly isnt worded that way.

[greyshoe]

And the way ive seen people say to keep track of which water tiles have already scored by "turning over each water tile as you score it" would result in animals/lands scoring more than once if they touched more than one water tile.

From how the programming is adding (and how you added) i can understand where your coming up with that total. And if that is the correct way its done, thats what im trying to be sure on. Ive just been figuring it up wrong this whole time as thats not what the rule says.

[tripitaka]

oh, now i see what you are saying ... but unfortunately that is no how it works. i have never interpreted the rules that way but i can see how you could.

So each water is scored one at a time and the number of points associated with the water is how many animals/land touches it.

Of course if an animal or land touches several waters then they will be counted more than once. But only because you are scoring for the water tiles one at a time.

[greyshoe]

Ok, well Im glad at least that is clarified. The water tile scoring has been baffling me this whole time. I dont know how/why this issue hasnt been brought up before. I can understand common sense would dictate that each animal or land scores once but the stated rules certainly do not read that way.

-thank you

[greyshoe]

At risk of muddying the waters further, there is a thread with this exact question on boardgamegeek and they seem to be of the opinion that yes, animals and lands can score more than once if touching more than one water tile. http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/168451/water-tile-scoring-tile-touches-two-water-tiles

[reo19uk]

hey grey

soz took me a while to work out what u meant here! basically u score once for each water not for each section of that water piece so where u have an animal touching 2 parts of the same water it is still only 1 point!

If you need any further help on this let me know and ill try and explain better than I think I may just have done lol

[reo19uk]

[greyshoe]

aaaaaah, that makes sense Reo. So an animal/land can score more than once as long as its different water tiles they are touching. (I was doing exactly what you said and considering each hex its own water tile instead of counting the whole piece as one tile).

-thank you very much for clearing that up

[reo19uk]

[Total_Twit]

The thing that confused me the first time I played was that the wording views it from the water's perspective so you start adding up point per space of the water block - and quite often one animal touches two different part of the same water, so you think it may score two points but actually a water only counts the total of different animals/ land it touches so one animal cannot score two points for the same water space. The animal can however touch a different water space and score another point for that one, twit

[greyshoe]

Yes, thats exactly what was tripping me up. Since it makes the water the priority instead of the animal/land its confusing. My having never played this in person and only online, also may have caused my difficulty. Had i played it in person, i may have naturally assumed that a water tile was actually the entire piece (whether it be 1,2 or 3 hex tile) but playing only online and seeing everything as individual hexes, i got tripped up on that. Therefor I was counting a water tile as 1 water hex space, regardless of that actual size of the piece.

Anyway, I want to thank everyone who has helped me learn and understand this game. Its been very enjoyable.

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[moja]

But my understanding of the rule it should be 27 points.