Subversiva CCG: Card Template Done?

Thanks.

Corner: Yes, I saw it, my bad - is actually fixed already since it depends on my picture placement of the artwork.

Close to edge: Good thinking. Missed out on that. :) Will have to cut irl to see if it's doable and how it will look like, odds are you're correct.

This vs This ćard: All text is just sample and made up for the showing of the template. I agree that "this card" sounds more correct but I'm not sure if it's needed since it's a card game and "this" can only refer to this and that much in it. Then again, I can imagine scenarios where it could refer to abilities and what not, so you're probably right. :)

About forum: I replied to your mail and also activated your account a while ago. Below is a copy:

from eyerouge
till yourname
datum den 1 december 2008 01:36
ämne Re: registration for subversiva forum.

Hi and thanks for the interest in the project.

I have activated your account on the forum. Please feel free and look around. You'd probably want to check out http://www.chaosrealm.net/subversiva/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64 first (password is "test", if any), but beware that the user called Elscouta is currently re-writing the core rules.

If you want to you can also reach me through msn (subcodes at hotmail.com) or jabber (eyerouge at gmail dot com). Also make sure you tell me if you want to help out some other way or want tasks =) There's a list for that in the forum as well.-

Welcome,
and with regards

/eyerouge

p.s. Nice site you have... think we're on the same plane when it comes to politics :P

0. All cards will be available for free to download, print/develop and/or play with on the internet. There are no restrictions whatsoever on availability. Thus there is no so-called "card rarity" and never will be.

1. CCG can be read as "customizable card game" or "complex card game", to mention two alternatives to collectible card game. I'd personally go with "customizable" since I believe it says way more abouth the game and genre than "collectible" does.

2. "Collectible" doesn't at all equate to randomness when acquiring the collectible object(s). It just suggests that some objects can be collected and perhaps that there already are collectors of them in existence.

3. I see random acquisition of game parts (could be cards, dices, meeples, whatever as long as it's parts or modules of the game) as a major problem. This has also been the de facto standard for many commercial CCG:s via i.e. boosterpacks with random cards. Instead I suggest the same approach as you'd have to most games: The player pays and knows what he pays for and what he'll get when he does the transaction.

To me it makes little sense to tell somebody to pay, promise him _some_ rare card and a lot of _crap_ cards in every package, and usually always guaranteeing that he'll get _doubles_.

While it might be, or was, a good business idea for the companies to trick kids (and adults ; ) with that model and make extra profits selling, in reality, cards nobody would have bought if they got to choose, I don't think it's ethical. I also don't think it's good for the game since youäd typically end up with too many crap cards that are seldom used and are just fillers released from the industry because of the way they choose to distribute their game (with randomness).

I don't think the way you _acquire a game_ and/or it's parts has any _logical_ effect on how the game plays. I.e. the rules for MTG are the same even if you don't buy boosters and pick up the cards handpicked from the private market that exists around MTG.

Lastly, a game that relies on the player's random acquisition of the game parts usually leads to an interesting effect: The riches persons (or rather - the ones willing to invest most money) into the game will get the rarest cards, thus those persons would always have _greater_ freedom to build any deck they want compared to the "normal players". It's an unequal system for the players and it favours consumerism on a capitalist market.

4. Much of this was also previously discussed in length in a thread about getting cards at random, but I don't know if the thread's around any longer. Admittedly there are people that are happy with a random system for various reasons. Main thing to remember is that it's a social/psychological factor they're experiencing when they "collect" (or rather, consume?) and that it still doesn't change anything within the game itself, more than giving them greater options than all the others. Good news for this kind of people is that they could still play our CCG: They could do it by i.e. drafting (could relate partially to this discussion) , or by letting some random method of their own choice decide which cards they'll "buy" this time. If there really was such a surge for this I could also easily code a site where boosters were generated and people had an account and a a card pool: Since it would be free you could be limitied to only get x amount of boosters per month/week etc. Once you get a card in your virtual booster you could then feel blessed and go and acquire that card by downloading it and printing/developing it with a calm conscious ;)