Would it be better to have card text broken down into steps, rather than paragraph form?

With the new rules, we have queued abilities, and non-queued abilities. And making sure you are able to pay cost just to queue them as well as when resolving. What if the card text just told us if the ability is queued (after maneuvering), or just active (like dice modification). Cleaning up text into actual steps and logic, may be the way to go.

NOTE: If any step fails starting from top down to bottom, the entire thing fails.

GLOSSARY:

RESTRICTION - This is law and must be met or followed

QUEUED - This ability will get queued in the ability tree ("After executing a maneuver", etc.)

ACTIVATE - Describes when this ability can be used ("While defending" etc.)

REQUIREMENT - Must be met to proceed any further, if it fails, the ability is not queued, nor resolved.

COST: Must be paid to proceed.

ABILITY: What happens when all steps have been met.

EXAMPLE ABILITIES

Quote

Ibtisam

QUEUED: After you fully execute a maneuver

REQUIREMENT: You are stressed

ABILITY: You may roll 1 attack die. On a hit or critical result, remove 1 stress token

Garven Dreis

QUEUED: After you spend a focus token

COST: You may choose 1 friendly ship at range 1-3

ABILITY: That ship gains 1 focus token

Shara Bey

ACTIVATE: While you defend or perform a primary attack

COST: You may spend 1 lock you have on the enemy ship

ABILITY: Add 1 eyeball result to your dice results

Norra Wexley

ACTIVATE: While you defend

REQUIREMENT: An enemy ship at range 0-1

ABILITY: You may add 1 evade result to your dice results

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Ten Numb

ACTIVATE: While you defend or perform an attack

COST: You may spend 1 stress token

ABILITY: Change all of your eyeball results to evade or hit results

Braylen Stramm

ACTIVATE: While you defend or perform an attack

REQUIREMENT: You are stressed

ABILITY: You may reroll up to 2 of your dice

Quote

Attack Shuttle

Locked and Loaded

RESTRICTION: You are docked

QUEUED: After your carrier ship performs a primary front or turret attack

ABILITY: It may perform a bonus primary rear attack.

Zeb Orrelios

ACTIVATE: While you defend

ABILITY: Crit results are neutralized before hit results

Hera

QUEUED: After you reveal a red or blue maneuver

ABILITY: You may set your dial to another maneuver of the same difficulty

Ezra

ACTIVATE: While you defend or perform an attack

REQUIREMENT: You are stressed

ABILITY: You may spend 1 force to change up to 2 of your eyeball results to evade or hit results

Sabine

QUEUED: Before you activate

ABILITY: You may perform a barrel roll or boost action.

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Sun Fac

ACTIVATE: While you perform a primary attack

REQUIREMENT: Defender is tractored

ABILITY: Roll 1 additional attack die

Pinpoint Tractor Array

RESTRICTION: You cannot rotate your turret to the rear arc

QUEUED: After you execute a maneuver

ABILITY: You may perform a rotate action

COST: Gain 1 tractor token

Quote

R4 Astromech

ACTIVATE: During ‘Execute Maneuver’ step

ABILITY: Decrease the difficulty of your speed 1-2 basic maneuvers.

Would make the game better for the %1 of us squeaky wheels and worse for everyone else

3 minutes ago, prauxim said:

Would make the game better for the %1 of us squeaky wheels and worse for everyone else

You are my new hero of the day.

2 hours ago, prauxim said:

Would make the game better for the %1 of us squeaky wheels and worse for everyone else

Why worse?

18 minutes ago, wurms said:

Why worse?

Just having to conceptually understand 6 separate categories and whatever symbol/syntax/etc denotes them

Its all makes great sense to me, but I have spent way too much time pouring over the RR. Its just more effort than most are going to want to spend. As is, the game mostly works for most people, so kinda the "less is more" philosophy

Additionally the game devs have stated they intend to use "a living RR" and FAQ as a balancing tool. IDK if that's greatest approach, but your proposed level of specificity would get in the way there.