Inventor Scoring

[Dead Girl]

What is up with Inventor scoring? The tooltip description is not at all what is going on. You don't score for number of Inventors x number of Inventor icons; as best as I can tell you score for number of Inventors prior to playing another Inventor card PLUS number of Inventor icons after playing another Inventor card?

[xevizero]

Hi, I understand your confusion, the tooltips have been slightly altered compared to the original game rulebook but it may still be confusing. When playing the real game, you would do all that math at the end, so for example you would be at 0 points and have 5 inventors and 4 icons, then you would score 20 points. In the BGA game this is done in real time when you take a card for ease of use, so the inventors do not score again at the end, their scores are added as you play so you can always know how many points you're gonna get. When you take an inventor (or any other card) the difference is added to your score: so if you have 4 inventors and 4 icons, that would be 16 points, when you take a 5th inventor with an icon you already have, that inventor will score 4 points, bringing you from 16 to 20, which is the score you should have. It's basically just keeping tabs on what you're gonna score by the normal rules of the real game.
Hope this clears it up!