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  • How I hate the colors

    So I started a game this weekend with a random leader, large shuffle map. I get the Romans, and quickly meet the Indians. I hate meeting a neighbor with a similar color to mine (both Purple), but I figured I'd just take Asoka out early and it wouldn't be a problem.

    I keep exploring and meet the French, also a purply-bluish color. I guess I've got two targets.

    As I finish exploring what turns out to be a continent I meet the Vikings. Purple. Damn it.


    To make it worse the continent was quite large for four players and the best land was behind Rome so I managed to expand peacefully the whole way through the Preat age. For the next 5500 years the four Purple countries shared their continent and everyone had open borders so there was a constant stream of purple troops everywhere. The only way to know if a city was garrisoned or being visited was to hover the mouse over it.

    Ugh.

    I really wish there was a way to change the colors of countries during the game. I knew from 10 minutes in that the purple was going to annoy me, but Rome was in such a pretty spot that I couldn't give it up.

    Eventually I found I didn't have coal so Asoka did finally meet my army (which then rolled onto the Vikings, just because they could) and France became my vassal so the similar color was kinda nice.

  • #2
    Agreed. Having set colours is silly.
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    • #3
      Same here, I have to 'mouse over' to check the colors. But at least there is a way to it. What about the Graph section? Its difficult to tell who's who on the graph.

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      • #4
        Agreed on the graph. I always get the Russians and Japanese confused.

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        • #5
          Agreed. It really isn't that difficult to have 24 different colors, is it?
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          • #6
            Preset colors are annoying, colors should be picked randomly at the start of the game, taking into account which colors has been used on which continent/island, so if there are enough civs in the game to need several colors to look a like, make sure that these civs are not bear each other
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            • #7
              While the very similar colors can be annoying, I think set colors are a good thing. You don't have to think twice when you see that peach color -- you know it's Isabella, same with lime green and montezuma. I think it would be more confusing if they changed from game to game, particularily now that i'm used to it.
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              • #8
                Set colors.

                What if I want to be blue, no matter what civ I have?
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                • #9
                  Is there any way of customising the colours at all (say in the XML files)? Because it's annoyed me for a while too. My problems are America and Persia (both light-ish blue) and Germany and England (both creamy-white).

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                  • #10
                    Snoopy was kind enough to help me with custom colors in a different thread

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                    • #11
                      set colors.

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                      • #12
                        Wait. They tried variable colors in Civ 3, remember? And we complained about two civs having the same color. Which do you want?
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                        • #13
                          the fact is there aren't that many colors that are different from each other. There are what? 24 civs? And really there are only 6 or 8 colors that are that different from each other. Then you start moving into shades of blue, shades of red, shades of green, white, and grey. That's it.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Dis
                            the fact is there aren't that many colors that are different from each other. There are what? 24 civs? And really there are only 6 or 8 colors that are that different from each other. Then you start moving into shades of blue, shades of red, shades of green, white, and grey. That's it.
                            Well yes, different shades of colors. The point was to make them different enough that we don't get them confused.
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                            • #15
                              I suppose that some people are just less sensitive to color differences than others. I rarely have any problems with the civ colors except on the mini-map. On the F9 graphs I have to be careful, but I can tell the reds, yellows, etc. apart.

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