Earth tags not counting

[Daedalus Cain]

Has anyone else noticed Earth Tags not properly tallying for the past few weeks? I want to say ever since the November 7th update, sometimes when Earth Tags get played, the just don't increment the counter. I went through the log for what cards I'd played and counted 14 Earth Tags, but when I played Cartel, the Earth Tag tally only showed 5 tags and I didn't get the full effect of the card. My Fiancee just had the same thing happen on a game we were playing together where she's counting a lot of tags in the card log, but only 2 are showing in the total. Closing the game and reopening (and resuming from the list) seems to allow future tags to tally from that point onward, but that only if you notice that it's not tallying - it doesn't retroactively recount them.

[chaney]

The tags on EVENT Cards (red border) ONLY count while they are being played, then they don't count any more. So if you have an effect that takes place when you play a tag, it will trigger, but later, when you count tags, they don't. This is probably what happened.

In the physical game, Events are turned face down after being played to make this clear. In this awful version of the game the rule is enforced without ever being indicated, so this question comes up a few times every year.

[AronFJenks]

chaney is correct.

The original release of the game had the event cards blanked out in the game log and "cards played" sections. This helped avoid tag confusion, but caused additional problems because people who may have been looking away from the screen for a brief moment had no way of knowing which event card the opponent had played,.

To fix it, the event cards, after being played, were no longer "face down", which unfortunately had the side effect of causing tag confusion.

I think an ideal solution would be to show the event cards that were played but with the tags grayed out.

Anyway, the actual tag counters in the game are correct - one of the few things that has been reliably correct over the years.

EDIT - another easy solution would be to simply improve the game log (which already needs a lot of improvements anyway). The game log should say, "Helin corporation played event card 'ice asteroid' ", or something like that.