COLORS :D

[a.sub]

Concise description:

There are many different types of color blindness, vision impairment, or even just preferences in army colors. If Lack wanted to go find the one set of colors that would satisfy everybody he has about 16,777,216 different colors per player. Thus i think the solution should be to allow players to set their own colors. How? using a similar method to coloring text in a forum post. What i am suggesting is to have a place in the control panel where people can type in their 6 digit code to change the colors for each of the 8 people (ie 0000FF would make the army colors 88)

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I expect this to be a bitch to code, not to mention i dont know how badly it would strain the system if at all.

[e_i_pi]

It's actually very simple to code, could be done in about an hour or so

[karelpietertje]

nice idea.
there might be some communication errors where one player says:
"Let's all attack red, he has a huge stack next to me" and everybody starts attacking blue
Still, it's a nice idea. We will just have to say the player name instead of his color

[Woodruff]

nice idea.
there might be some communication errors where one player says:
"Let's all attack red, he has a huge stack next to me" and everybody starts attacking blue
Still, it's a nice idea. We will just have to say the player name instead of his color

That's a very good point that I hadn't thought of. <laughing> But this is a very good suggestion, I agree.

[obliterationX]

I agree - if I had the choice I would choose some more diverse colours than the red & green that are currently the most important colours.

[neanderpaul14]

There are many different types of color blindness

An old boss of mine was red/green color blind so I always kept a can of red spray paint on my truck so when I had to mark stuff in the grass I could mess with him

[killerpit4e]

There are many different types of color blindness

An old boss of mine was red/green color blind so I always kept a can of red spray paint on my truck so when I had to mark stuff in the grass I could mess with him

lol mean

[groovy9]

I posted a new thread on the subject, mainly because I had a different suggested solution to the same problem. Check out "suggestion from colorblind guy" and feel free to discuss this thread there or vice versa.

One of the fundamental problems I have with discerning colors here is that it's the number font that's colored, not a black or white number on a colored swatch. The latter would be MUCH easier for a lot of us.

There just doesn't exist a collection of 8 colors that I could discern at a glance if you don't give me bigger swatches to look at.

[groovy9]

Incidentally, for completeness, I'm what they call red-deficient. No problem discerning red vs green. But shades of red are a nightmare. Red vs purple, purple vs blue, orange vs yellow, brown vs red, etc. If you don't give me a big chunk of color to compare, I don't stand a chance.

[MrBenn]

The colourblind option/toggle adds a letter before the number to help distinguish between different colours.

I'm not colourblind, but still find it useful

[oVo]

Very useful... I click the colour code a lot early on in eight player games
as the background often has a strange effect on the number's hue for me.

[a.sub]

this seems to be well liked so far
any other comments?
if this would help our color blind friends id like to see it implemented

[Woodruff]

this seems to be well liked so far

Yes. Which I believe means it's screwed.

[a.sub]

this seems to be well liked so far

Yes. Which I believe means it's screwed.