Changing the card text template to make entry easier

the1andonlime wrote:

Anyone from the card design or marketing team care to weigh in on this?

I personally think there are a lot more changes we can do, but something this simple and effective should at least be considered. No?

If we can make card comprehension more intuitive, we will increase the chances of groups that start up themselves before joining the greater community. Ultimately, is not our plan to grow the player base? I propose that making it easier for people to pick up the game works very well towards that goal and making card comprehension more intuitive most certainly makes picking up the game easier.

I suppose you have the "title (x votes)" in mind.
Adding the number of votes after the title has nothing to do with intuitiveness because either the player have read the section about referendum and knows what title and votes are about, or he hasn't and the concept of # votes won't help him.
Adding the number of votes is more a help for beginners which is welcome on initiation sets (that's why I added them on my demo cards -- and you can see that there's a lot of text as soon as you begin to add rules reminders) but becomes quickly redundant and space-wasting when you've played a few games.

I don't think you can make standard VTES cards "intuitive". If you haven't read the rules, you won't get far.

If you have a look on Magic cards, only core sets have reminders about keywords such as Flying and so on. The volume of cards printed and expansions, as well as the quantity of vanilla cards (1/1 flying creature with no text) make it easy to add reminder text. Classical sets don't have reminder (except for new keywords, which doesn't happen frequently in VTES).

To cut a long story short, I think that "Prince of Miami" is perfectly clear and doesn't need any additional reminder text. It's more useful either to design a beginner's set with special cards, and/or a set of reminders cards (the existing ones have to many informations on them): one with the titles and what they're worth and how a political action works, one for combat, one with the turn layout, etc.

In fact, playing on the playmat should be enough. The number of votes a Prince has is written on it.

If people have ideas to make the game more "intuitive", please share!