djidjioops wrote: ↑24 August 2022, 09:38
it's not so clear for me, sorry i'm french, and the traduction of the cards in french is awfull for most of them
if i understand "type" is the name for cards comming from any extention ?
As a language learner myself, I'm sympathetic to those trying to function in a language that is not native to them.
At the risk of over-explaining, allow me to share some thoughts and observations:
In English, "type" is not a name, per se, but is a common word used to indicate a classification or category of people, objects, or things (including non-physical things). A synonym would be "kind", as in "what kind of card is this?"
When discussing "type" in Innovation, context is very important.
For example, page 5 of the Innovation Deluxe rules says, "There are six basic icon types that appear on cards in Innovation."
On the Empire achievement, the text on the card is literally this: "Claim this special achievement immediately if you have three or more icons of all six types:".
When introducing the different actions of the basic game, page 6 says, "There are four types of action: Draw, Meld, Dogma, and Achieve."
(Note that in all examples above, "kinds" could have been used instead of "types" and the meaning would have remained the same.)
When only the basic game existed, it seems to me that the usage of "type" was sufficiently clear and could cause no confusion.
However, when expansions came into play, and in particular when card effects started "caring about" which set cards came from, the previous use of "type" could cause difficulty for native speakers (it did for me, initially), let alone those for whom English was not one's native language.
English doesn't have a single word that lends itself easily to answering
only the question "which base or expansion set does this card come from?"; "type" is a word that
can be used, but its normal meaning in the language, as demonstrated above, means that "type" could easily refer to other things or categories.
Having said all that, I'll now add the most important part of the rules for this discussion: page 10 of the rules, under the Keywords section, has this definition: "
Type: The type of a card is which expansion it comes from."
For Micah Stairs: might it be helpful if "type" on card effects were capitalized as "Type" to subtly distinguish the word as being used in its keyword sense? (Even though this suggestion would cause BGA's implementation to diverge slightly from the physical printing of the game, I think it might be helpful. Note that on the Empire achievement, "type" should remain in lower case since its use there is not as a keyword but merely to refer to the different kinds of icons.) Perhaps you could run this by the designer or publisher?
