[GC] Choose Which Position (Color) to Join in a Game

[SirSebstar]

i'd assume everybody picks his own colour, and does not realy change the colour thats being played with, so if i pick red. the red player does not change, only the representation of my colour. that way, everybody can pick red, everybody gets the keep the gamesequence they are used too, minus their own colour change, but if you always pick red, that should not be too hard..

arg. headache..
no i think this is a bad idea right now. it need to be worked on

[TheForgivenOne]

i'd assume everybody picks his own colour, and does not realy change the colour thats being played with, so if i pick red. the red player does not change, only the representation of my colour. that way, everybody can pick red, everybody gets the keep the gamesequence they are used too, minus their own colour change, but if you always pick red, that should not be too hard..

arg. headache..
no i think this is a bad idea right now. it need to be worked on

Yeah... bad idea. Because say you try calling out to yellow... but nobody picked yellow, so everybody goes "He must be talking to someone else"

[-=- Tanarri -=-]

i'd assume everybody picks his own colour, and does not realy change the colour thats being played with, so if i pick red. the red player does not change, only the representation of my colour. that way, everybody can pick red, everybody gets the keep the gamesequence they are used too, minus their own colour change, but if you always pick red, that should not be too hard..

arg. headache..
no i think this is a bad idea right now. it need to be worked on

Yeah... bad idea. Because say you try calling out to yellow... but nobody picked yellow, so everybody goes "He must be talking to someone else"

I can't say that I entirely follow what SirSebstar was trying to say, but it does seem awfully wrong and doesn't sound like either option that lack put forward.

I really think that option 2, being picking which colour slot you join under, just like in team games, is the best way to go for this and would work fine. It has minimal impact on how things work on the site and everybody still gets to pick which colour they are out of the ones that are remaining in the game.

[MrBenn]

Perhaps the easiest way to do it, would be to allow people to join specific slots, in a similar way to how you can join specific teams; the play/colour order should remain the same however.

[iamkoolerthanu]

Perhaps the easiest way to do it, would be to allow people to join specific slots, in a similar way to how you can join specific teams; the play/colour order should remain the same however.

I really think that option 2, being picking which colour slot you join under, just like in team games, is the best way to go for this and would work fine. It has minimal impact on how things work on the site and everybody still gets to pick which colour they are out of the ones that are remaining in the game.

I fully support this

[TheForgivenOne]

Yes, i believe Option 2 is going to be used for this

[ender516]

I guess Option 2 is workable, but I always pictured this change more like Sir Sebstar described. Yes, it would mean not being able to use colour names in the chat, but how hard is it to copy and paste the name from the players list? Or simply add player numbers, so that you call out to #1 instead of red? If I could choose the colour scheme for each game I was in, I could avoid using blue for anyone on dark maps. The same would go for yellow on light ones, or ones where there were many neutrals. I wouldn't use both red and pink on one map. This would all work provided I didn't play any 8 player games. Hey, if I could change the colours, hopefully I could change them to anything, not just swap the basic 8 around.

EDIT: I guess I'm saying I like the Custom Colors suggestion, including its chat code idea.

[TheForgivenOne]

Well, i hardly see anyone in game chats actually use player names. Most of them all go by colors. So i still think that the Enter game in each slot would be the better/smarter choice

[KingUncles]

I would like to see this,
The only problem with this if people choose the same colour, i guess it would have to be the first comes, first served.

[qwertylpc]

some people are adding ideas to over complicate

in the begining the creator of the came makes the game lets say 4 player doubles game and is no color (like in battle royals when you aren't one of the first eight to join).

Then he selects his color lets say red

now he invites his partner (player c)

then another player (player b) joins he selects his color green and invites his partner (player d)

player c recieves the invite and chooses blue

now player d recieves his invite and he chooses from the remaining colors orange


simple no to players can be the same color, first come first serve

[Commander62890]

Don't do this. It would totally f*ck with my head in team games.
I am so used to dubs being R+G vs B+Y, trips being R,G,B vs Y,P,C, and quads being R,G,B,Y vs P,C,O,S.


If all the colors were mixed up... I'm serious, this could have an effect on my gameplay (if I was rushing). At the very least, it would be confusing... all this so you can have your favorite color? I love blue, but there's no way I want this to happen and affect the game like this.


Honestly, I'm totally fine with this being implemented in every other type of game, but you can't make this mandatory for team games. An option, maybe. But this can't go through and affect team games.

[grifftron]

Don't do this. It would totally f*ck with my head in team games.
I am so used to dubs being R+G vs B+Y, trips being R,G,B vs Y,P,C, and quads being R,G,B,Y vs P,C,O,S.


If all the colors were mixed up... I'm serious, this could have an effect on my gameplay (if I was rushing). At the very least, it would be confusing... all this so you can have your favorite color? I love blue, but there's no way I want this to happen and affect the game like this.


Honestly, I'm totally fine with this being implemented in every other type of game, but you can't make this mandatory for team games. An option, maybe. But this can't go through and affect team games.

I agree with Commander, it would just mess things up in team games.

[TheForgivenOne]

Don't do this. It would totally f*ck with my head in team games.
I am so used to dubs being R+G vs B+Y, trips being R,G,B vs Y,P,C, and quads being R,G,B,Y vs P,C,O,S.


If all the colors were mixed up... I'm serious, this could have an effect on my gameplay (if I was rushing). At the very least, it would be confusing... all this so you can have your favorite color? I love blue, but there's no way I want this to happen and affect the game like this.


Honestly, I'm totally fine with this being implemented in every other type of game, but you can't make this mandatory for team games. An option, maybe. But this can't go through and affect team games.

That was already thrown out the door Commander. The way we have it now, is that players join what slot they want. So in a Quads game, it would still be R+G+B+Y vs +P+C+O+S. Instead you'd have something like this

[Player A]
Join as Green
Join as Blue
Join as Yellow
vs
Join as Pink
Join as Cyan
Join as Orange
Join as Slate

[Commander62890]

Ah, I see. That's fine.

So, if you already had a quads team set up... you could pick from 1 of 4 colors?

[TheForgivenOne]

Yes, you'd get the invite, and first to respond, would get to pick which slot they join. Well, that's how i see it.

[stahrgazer]

The way we have it now, is that players join what slot they want. So in a Quads game, it would still be R+G+B+Y vs +P+C+O+S. Instead you'd have something like this

[Player A]
Join as Green
Join as Blue
Join as Yellow
vs
Join as Pink
Join as Cyan
Join as Orange
Join as Slate

Makes sense, but... would "invites" enable the accepting player to select whether he'll be invite 2, 3, or 4, as well? Or if you "invite" him first, would he automatically be assigned the next avail color on the team?

[TheForgivenOne]

Ah, miss stahr, please look up, and you shall find an answer to your question

[oldrisky44]

I have a hard time seeing yellow, so, once I figured that out, I don't join 4th. The colors really don't mean anything, they just mark your spot on the board. Besides, I think pink is manly.

[drunkmonkey]

I hate to be a downer, but I hope this is "stickied" because it's an easy change and won't take much time. There are a lot of useful changes I'd rather see before "Oooh yay! I wanna be blue!" ever goes into effect.

[Queen_Herpes]

Seems ultimately to slow down the game. I get it, sometimes I am playing in multiple doubles games where I am red in one, green in another, blue in a third and yellow in four others. Gets confusing. BUT, will it slow things down when joining games? It seems like changes to the colors (in general) would be better and if you cannot see a particular color, you can click that color-blindness button that gives a letter next to each army. A whole host of other changes I'd like to see to the site before putting this one through, considering there are many other ways of dealing with someone's personal preference of color and already a way to deal with color blind players.

[windowmere]

and if you cannot see a particular color, you can click that color-blindness button that gives a letter next to each army.

That doesn't work very well.
Even with BOB enabled it's much easier to play as a colour you can distinguish easily than one of the others, because you can't just look at the board and see what is going on. (It's not practical to try and control which colour you are by, say, always trying to be the 4th player)
I understand that this change isn't important for everyone, but it would be a huge help for colourblind players

(This comment inspired by the "it won't help me, so we shouldn't do it" posts above)

[TheForgivenOne]

Alright, i updated the very first post. I will be moving this to Submitted

[Army of GOD]

Yay!

I call Pink you bastards!

[Victor Sullivan]

Is this being implemented?

[MichelSableheart]

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So basically, this will be implemented when Lack determines it the most fitting, relevant and desired suggestion.