Rules
At the start of the game, the 75 tiles are divided into three piles, one each of 30, 25, and 20 tiles -- players initially draw from the pile of 30, and then the piles of 25 and 20, the latter two of which the city walls are introduced. There are also 12 towers, which are split equally among the players.
Like other Carcassonne games, each player at the start of their turn must draw and place a tile so that they are adjacent to other tiles and such that the features connect with each other. Unlike Carcassonne (but like Carcassonne: The Castle) only roads need to be contiguous: residential areas and markets (serving as fields and cities in The City, respectively) need not be connected.
After a tile is placed, a player may choose to place a follower onto the newly-placed tile. Like other games, followers claim a feature of a tile, and may not be placed in features where another follower is present. It is entirely possible to place followers in such a way that two or more followers share a feature. Players are also advised to lay their followers on residential areas lying down, as they are only scored at the end of the game.
Features are considered complete if the feature in question is unable to be expanded -- roads when they reach intersections, city walls, or form a closed loop, and markets and residential areas by the presence of each other or by roads or walls. If markets or roads are completed by the placement of tiles, they are then immediately scored. Like other Carcassonne games, the player(s) with the majority of followers on a completed feature score the full amount of points -- all others having a claim to the feature score nothing. Roads are worth two points per tile for roads of at least four tiles, and one point per tile for shorter ones, while markets score one point per tile, multiplied by the number of distinct goods that are sold therein (there are three distinct types of goods in markets). As in other Carcassonne games, followers on completed features are returned to their owners, which can then be reused.
A noticeable difference between The City and other Carcassonne games, followers may not be placed on just-completed features.
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