Thread:Wazat/@comment-1580209-20161230134352/@comment-454133-20161230181230

Interesting idea. Though typically an FFG card would spell out the options in detail, especially since later they might add another token type that would make the card overpowered. Frankly this card is going to be wildly overpowered already... I'd have to spend some time tinkering with possible combinations to know just how much, but it doesn't take much to abuse horribly.

For example, a Burnout Slam Aggressor could clear its weapon disabled token (and possibly stress, ions, and/or especially enemy locks) and exchange them for 1 focus, 1 evade and 1 reinforce token, to combine with its 3 agility. It could do this every round, without using an action, even if it had no red tokens to remove. That's super-abusable, and a steal for a 5-cost card. ^_^

That said, FFG doesn't distinguish much by resource token color, at least in the rules. They are generally colored green for good and red for bad, but occasionally there's also blue or orange, e.g. shield and ordnance tokens. But they never call them out as such in the rules; FFG never refers to red or green tokens. The only time color is mentioned is for target locks, where it matters mechanically.

With all that said, a useful page could be one that simply listed all token types, and included icons and names side-by-side for anyone to easily look up. You could even label them as positive, negative, neutral, and ambiguous in one of the columns. This would also include ID tokens, mines, cargo token, asteroids, special mission tokens, basically everything you punch out of the cardboard rectangle that isn't a ship baseplate. Separate it into several charts that differentiate by token type, e.g. resource/ship tokens like focus/lock/weapons disabled; terrain tokens like asteroids and mines; others like id and mission tokens. Tokens with a specific source (or limited sources, e.g. only a few expansions) could also link to the sets that contain them. That could help a lot for people trying to organize their crap, or find specific tokens for a mission or figure out what a specific token does, or sell or give away their expansions without leaving something out (or help the buyer determine if anything is missing, though the expansion's page does that pretty well).

Finally, and this is slightly off-topic (and could be moved to another discussion thread), but I like the idea of people homebrewing cards, missions, campaigns, etc. If people here are interested, I might not be against letting folks create pages for homebrew content, but I would want to keep it clearly segregated from the X-Wing canon so there's no confusion. I know you can have subdirectories for pages, e.g. Phases / Order of Gameplay. We could have Homebrew / GabrielVelasquez / One with the Force, for example. What does everyone think of that?

The alternative is for people to list their stuff on their user pages, or simply in Google Docs that they share publicly. The google docs option might be much easier for everyone involved, and would greatly limit the amound of editing we see in the Wiki Activity. But if people are running homebrew campaigns, they might be worth at least linking to from the wiki (if we're not already doing that somewhere).