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SJL
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Yellow vs. white

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Concise description:
  • Change the yellow colour to something else to enhance viewability vs. neutral (white). eg. orange (nb. excuse me if this colour is in use already in larger games, I never play more than 5player).
  • Alternatively, change white territors to black

Specifics:
  • as above

This will improve the following aspects of the site:
  • I won't have to tilt my screen and look really really close to see who owns a territory.
  • Less errors would be made by mistaking a yellow or neutral territory
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Re: Yellow vs. white

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Press "[add colour codes]" to the right of the map (by [refresh map]) to add n3, y6, etc. to the map. And yes, orange is already in use.

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the.killing.44 wrote:Press "[add colour codes]" to the right of the map (by [refresh map]) to add n3, y6, etc. to the map. And yes, orange is already in use.

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That's supposed to be for color-blind people, and it makes the numbers take up even more space. It's not really addressing the problem, it's just a cop-out.

I think the value should be changed as well, maybe to cccc00 or something instead of ffff00. I have to use BOB to tell the difference sometimes. :|
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Re: Yellow vs. white

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john9blue wrote:
the.killing.44 wrote:Press "[add colour codes]" at the top right of the map


john9blue wrote:That's supposed to be for color-blind people, and it makes the numbers take up even more space.

I do believe that's for anyone who can't figure out what colors they are seeing and you can also unclick it once you know what colors are where. It definitely resolves the white/yellow, grey/green and red/pink/orange distinctions.
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Re: Yellow vs. white

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oVo wrote:
john9blue wrote:
the.killing.44 wrote:Press "[add colour codes]" at the top right of the map


john9blue wrote:That's supposed to be for color-blind people, and it makes the numbers take up even more space.

I do believe that's for anyone who can't figure out what colors they are seeing and you can also unclick it once you know what colors are where. It definitely resolves the white/yellow, grey/green and red/pink/orange distinctions.



There is a big problem with the colour codes...sometimes I can't distinguish grey from green and when I add colour codes, they are still g for grey and g for green, so that thing is useless.
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Re: Yellow vs. white

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Fipa wrote:
There is a big problem with the colour codes...sometimes I can't distinguish grey from green and when I add colour codes, they are still g for grey and g for green, so that thing is useless.


for me it´s g for green and s for silver :?
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Seulessliathan wrote:
Fipa wrote:
There is a big problem with the colour codes...sometimes I can't distinguish grey from green and when I add colour codes, they are still g for grey and g for green, so that thing is useless.


for me it´s g for green and s for silver :?



Wow it really is...either I didn't see the difference or it has been changed :oops:
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Re: Yellow vs. white

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I know the colour codes are there, but they really do clutter up the map. Especially maps that are already complicated.
What about black for neutral then? as long as that doesn't look too similar to blue (which could go a shade lighter).

It's not a huge change and I would guess it shouldn't take too much programming.

Anyway, just my 2c.
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Re: Yellow vs. white

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Seulessliathan wrote:
Fipa wrote:
There is a big problem with the colour codes...sometimes I can't distinguish grey from green and when I add colour codes, they are still g for grey and g for green, so that thing is useless.


for me it´s g for green and s for silver :?



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Re: Yellow vs. white

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More like the visible light spectrum failed. We've tossed around a few ideas for slightly alternate shades of the colors we have, so we'll have to see what happens.


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The better solution to increase color visibility is to have colored buttons with black or white numbers on top. This would give you a swatch of color to look at instead of a 1px line and would help this situation tremendously.

Unfortunately on colored or very decorative maps this would ruin the existing aesthetics and is not worth the trouble IMO.
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