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New Game Mechanic: Mirror Quartet https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=52922.msg1116076#msg1116076
« on: December 18, 2013, 12:08:34 pm »
Up to 4 abilities, but only 1 per turn. Same price for all: 1 mark quanta.

One example for each card slot:




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Re: New Game Mechanic: Mirror Quartet https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=52922.msg1116080#msg1116080
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2013, 12:30:54 pm »
I don't get it. Do the card cycle between these when on hand, or what?
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Re: New Game Mechanic: Mirror Quartet https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=52922.msg1116095#msg1116095
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2013, 01:08:41 pm »
I don't get it. Do the card cycle between these when on hand, or what?

You are not the only one who doesn't understand what this is supposed to do, but it caught my interest so my post will be derping around and waiting for news of these cards.
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Re: New Game Mechanic: Mirror Quartet https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=52922.msg1116111#msg1116111
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2013, 02:46:35 pm »
Okay I am curious. Details please.
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Re: New Game Mechanic: Mirror Quartet https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=52922.msg1116133#msg1116133
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2013, 04:26:16 pm »
I think I get it - kind of.

Quartet implies four, mirror implies two, so four pairs total.

1: Champion [hero] is the opposite of a Tyrant (kind of)
2: Darkness and Light are opposites determined by Zanz (also Hime is Princess in Japanese, but who knows what else it could be?)
3: Hime - Polymath. I'd have to look this up.
4: Entropy and Gravity are opposites determined by Zanz.

So more generally, vertical pairs are mirrored elements, and horizontal pairs are mirrored by some kind of theme.
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Re: New Game Mechanic: Mirror Quartet https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=52922.msg1116258#msg1116258
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2013, 09:39:13 am »
Haha, I knew I shouldn't have used the word "mirror".
That was only a reference to Hyroen's Mirror Quanta. It implies that the cards cost mark quanta. It would probably be better to use a more suitable word before "quartet".

When you play this card, they become pseudo-permanents in the appropriate quadrant of your mark slot. The effects do not activate when played; instead, they can be activated once per turn (after summoning sickness) by clicking the appropriate quadrant and clicking the appropriate quadrant of the mark. You can only activate 1 quadrant per turn (if you activate one quadrant, you cannot activate other quadrants in the same turn). Playing a card in a quadrant (1, 2, 3, or 4) already occupied will replace the card in the current quadrant. As the cards are not permanents, they are unaffected by PC, and in the current version of the game unaffected by all possible control.

Of course, this is just what I had in mind when I created the 4 cards. Suggestions to improve, or even completely change for the better, the game mechanic are welcome.
I'll read through the comments when I'm more clear-headed.

 

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