What was the thought process behind the changes made to the recommended sets for 2nd edition? I guess I was expecting more 1-to-1 replacement relationships, but aside from Thief -> Bandit that didn't really happen.
(I am particularly curious about Mining Village -> Diplomat in the Intrigue/Dark Ages set "Invasion". Is there a story there?)
The core thought process was "oh man I have to get this done, ugh." I have spent so much time picking sets of 10 cards for a game that's supposed to work with any random 10.
For everything except the main set and Intrigue by themselves and together (e.g. main set plus Prosperity) (oh except also the missing ones, I forget what set combinations but you know, not every set combination existed)... I just tried to use the new cards about equally while replacing the old cards. It couldn't be one-to-one because there were 7 cards replacing 6. Bandit was such a direct replacement of Thief that I just swapped it in, and then for the rest I gave myself short lists of options.
For the main set and Intrigue pure and combined, I needed to revise things enough that some of them are just new, and some are way different. And we played those.
There's no story to Invasion. I was never replacing Mining Village the card. Either I just mistakingly marked it as needing changing in that set of 10, or I was trying to up the usage of Diplomat.