Fields scoring

[Bob Ross]

So I'm confused on how you score fields. Have a look in the screenshot below, particularly the 3 neighboring cities in the top left corner of the map. I'm supplying them with 3 farmers while Green is supplying them with 2(one in my field, one in his field). So I'm left wondering why Green gets points for these cities as I was expecting I would be the only one getting points from these three.
Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/7yVE2xf

[ajmiles]

Every city can be fed by more than one field.

Each field is 'owned' by the player that has the most meeples in it at the end of the game. If you have more meeples in that field at the end of the game then any city connected to your field scores you 3 points. If there are an equal number of meeples in a field at the end of the game, then both players score 3 points per city for that field.

If a city happens to connect/border 2 or more fields, then that city can be scored several times (by multiple fields that don't link together).

The way you're thinking about it is:

"Add up the number of meeples in all fields touching this city and award 3 points goes to the player with the most".

This makes a lot of sense, but it's not how it works in Carcassonne.

The easiest way to think about it is:

"For each field, award 3 points per connected city to the player(s) who has the most meeples in that field"

For this reason, it's a valid technique to try and 'farm' a city from two or maybe even 3 sides!

[Heikai]

Field scoring used to be more confusing back in the day.
Now it's simple: Each complete city in the field gives the owner(s) 3 points.
That's all there is to it.

[Bob Ross]

Thanks a lot for your answers guys. I get it now!

[Mvek]

The ingame rules description is stupid, because it does not even say that rule about the higher number of meeples of one player, but I remembered it. Problem was that I did not realize that it is same for fields. So I kind of lost my first online game, because I did not care and thought that the other player is stupid putting more meeples on the same big field...