CONCESSION -- $7
PROJECT
During your turns, Estates are also Treasures with:
" $1 "
"You may return a Copper from your hand to the Supply for +$2; if you don't, gain a Copper to your hand."
I feel like the two different texts are somewhat distanced from each others. Also, i dont understand if both texts are supposed to apply to estates, making them like a sort of Moneylender?
Yes, everything in quotation marks is now additional text on Estates, which are Treasure - Victory cards (like Harem) but with text in addition to the $ it gives (like Loan or Counterfeit). I copied the syntax from Inheritance, which this is meant to be a variant of. I put the $1 on it's own line because that is how all Treasures do it (I had to leave a space or else the
card image generator rendered it back into a dollar sign).
If you buy the Project, then on your turn Estates become this:
Since Inheritance turns them into Action cards up to $4, I wanted to make them similar to Silver, always giving (or at least netting) $2. These do that by giving $1 outright and generating a second $1 by either: giving you $2 instead of $1 for a Copper in your hand (and getting rid of it) or by giving you another Copper to play.
The mechanic is similar to Moneylender, but these will never completely rid you of Coppers (unless you stop playing them). I didn't want to do a purely de-Coppering mechanic for a few reasons. First, unlike Moneylender, these are not terminal Actions but Treasures that can be played in unlimited number each turn. It would be too easy to quickly rid your deck of all its Copper (once bought). Also, once that happened, the utility of Estates would go down significantly. One of the things I like about Inheritance is that it can flip the script and make buying estates a good idea. If the 3 Estates you had could quickly get rid of your Copper, you'd have no incentive to buy more. With this, once your initial Copper is gone you want to end up with 2 of these in hand, so you can gain then return the same Copper.
I hope that explained it.