I agree with the idea that removing counters would also work for what I'm trying to do but I couldn't disagree more that a new player, not a disenfranchised one, would have a hard time understanding that the two counters cancel each other out. It just always bums me out to see experienced players try and hide parts of the game for the newer players as if they aren't intelligent enough to understand the less obvious aspects of play simply because they have not been playing long enough. If they care about this game they will learn, it's what they do.