Are cards colours random?

[maxfaraday]

For instance, will the "Berlin" card always be green?

[betiko]

actually that's a good question. i've always wondered if a given territory is always the same colour and I do think so.. if anyone could confirm..

[Night Strike]

The colors are random. The game system randomly picks a card from those that are available, randomly picks a color, and then posts them to your game.

[maxfaraday]

Thanks for the answer.
I just played 2 games on doodle earth and thought that had I knew the colours/territoriy link, it would have had a huge strategic consequence.
Maybe it's worth making a suggestion?

[Night Strike]

You can make a suggestion, but it won't be done. Currently, the code just has to use the XML (the code for all the maps) to randomly pick a territory and then matches it with a randomly chosen color. With your suggestion, lack would have to build a database for every map that stores the card-color pair and calls from it. That's a lot of unnecessary storage space for the site when the current method works well.

[Barns]

I find it looks at my existing cards and then chooses the worst possible colour it can...any colour that doesn't make a set...and then it begrudgingly gives me a red set when I have 5 cards...I thought that was how it worked?

[zimmah]

actually that's a good question. i've always wondered if a given territory is always the same colour and I do think so.. if anyone could confirm..

i can confirm as i once had a game and during that game i had the same country twice and both times in a different color.

[zimmah]

I find it looks at my existing cards and then chooses the worst possible colour it can...any colour that doesn't make a set...and then it begrudgingly gives me a red set when I have 5 cards...I thought that was how it worked?

you forgot the part about avoiding your own countries except in nuclear.