57 minutes ago, Kumagoro said:

No, FFG shouldn't rely to the resolutions to syntactic ambiguity that are found in a newspaper article, because the cards are not simple information , they convey rules , the language should be used in the same non-ambiguous way that we use for lawmaking.

Okay, so I'm mostly with you on the issue of templating (it's one reason I personally would like X-Wing 2.0), but stick to good arguments. If you think lawmaking is "non-ambiguous," you're clearly not in a legal field or involved in the legislative process in any way. (FWIW, I'm a lawyer.) It's nearly impossible to make anything but the simplest laws (or rules) completely non-ambiguous. The best you can do is minimize ambiguity.

And, BTW, keep in mind that legislators have reams of paper to work with. FFG has approximately the character-count of a tweet. Again, if you've read my posts at all, you know I am far from an FFG apologist, but IMO we have to cut them some slack on this ... while acknowledging that it makes us crazy anyway.

IMHO a lot of problems could have been avoided by using 'you' = ship and 'You' = player.

Just now, Stoneface said:

IMHO a lot of problems could have been avoided by using 'you' = ship and 'You' = player.

I vote for "y'all" and "youns."

Just now, Jeff Wilder said:

I vote for "y'all" and "youns."

A mix of southern and Pennsylvania?

23 minutes ago, Stoneface said:

A mix of southern and Pennsylvania?

A'course, just like mom'n'ems learnt us.

When attacking FFG, you may immediate declare a secondary attack against your target to reroll your attack and then must draw two damage cards placing them on any friendly ship.

When defending, friendly ships may borrow your target lock to reroll any dice.

If you are the last friendly ship on the board, your point value is increased by 20 unless you are destroyed outside of the combat phase.

4 hours ago, Jeff Wilder said:

I vote for "y'all" and "youns."

Add in "hon" and you've successfully bridged.

If they ever do an X-wing 2.0 rule set I hope they incorporate symbols to streamline card text. Much like Armada has done. Basically short hands like a symbol that means "Gain a stress to do this" or "Spend a focus token to do this" with clear cut universal interaction rules. Would cut down on 'case by case' FAQ rulings and allow more words to be fit onto the cards for actual new rules instead of using up a bunch of space to say 'Receive one stress token'

On 4/27/2017 at 6:54 PM, Jeff Wilder said:

If you think lawmaking is "non-ambiguous," you're clearly not in a legal field

I'm not. Rephrase as "lawmaking how it should be?".

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And, BTW, keep in mind that legislators have reams of paper to work with. FFG has approximately the character-count of a tweet.

So does Wizards of the Coast (MTG cards are larger, but art is too, and mechanics are way more complicated). I guess you're not a MTG player, because I can tell you, if they can do it, with ZERO ambiguity, then every other game company shouldn't be cut any slack at all, not after 5 years of developing. Legislators may have reams of paper to work with, but they also deal with subject matters that aren't really comparable to "which ship is attacking". Nor are the thousands interactions between MTG cards, anyway. We're not even asking much, some of the issues are about failing to use the same term with the same meaning in the same sentence, for God's sake.

On 4/27/2017 at 9:26 PM, Stoneface said:

IMHO a lot of problems could have been avoided by using 'you' = ship and 'You' = player.

This could have been confusing to read. And what would you do when the lowercase "you" came after a period?

What would have been better was using "this ship = this ship" and "you = the player", go figure.