Reply: Carcassonne:: Rules:: Re: Farmer placement in rules for 1 & 2 edition

by keso55

manukajoe wrote:

Yep, in both versions you can only place a farmer into a field which has no other farmers. But they are scored slightly differently at the end of the game.

Now that I understand that, my next question is the real difference in scoring between 1st and 2nd. [Just like to know the history] Was the only difference 3points vs 4 points? Both explanations I read seem to say that whoever had the most farmers touching that city would get the points and only scoring a city once.