Originally posted by Roland Johansen
People who are colorblind can't distinguish between the different colors of the civs and therefore don't know which city belongs to which civilisation. Therefore a name of the civilisation is added directly following the city name. Nice gesture of the programmers to those people who have a problem distinguishing the civilisations.
I'm not colorblind but I also use it. It's easy for a lazy player like me.
I m not colorblind, but I also use it. It comes in handy when civ colors are too close together. I had that happen in game where I was at war with Mongols and the Koreans were almost the same color.
Originally posted by meltone1
So what is it and what is the difference between all the different flavor numbers?
You can rename the different flavors to whatever you want them to be. A good example of the use of flavors is in the Conquests scenarios.
From the Conquests Editor Help File:
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Flavor Page
The ''Flavors'' feature allows you to establish ''relationships'' between the various technology advancements. Setting these relationships is a way to modify how non-human (or AI) civilizations choose which paths to develop along the technology tree.
To set up relationships, the player first selects a ''flavor'' in the far left box (like ''Barbarian''). The player then selects a ''flavor'' in the far right box (like ''Med Civ''). Then, using the percentage field in the center, adjusts the number (or ''relationship'') to his liking. So, using this example, we see that the AI civilizations with a Barbarian ''flavor'' only have a 20% chance of ever researching advances along the Med Civ ''flavor''. Thus, the designer can use flavors to ''steer'' some civilizations away from some advances and toward others.
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A good example is the Middle Ages scenario. It has 4 Flavors (Byzantine, Islamic, Norse, and Roman Catholic). The chance of a civ with a given Flavor researching a Tech with a different Flavor ranges from 0% (Byzantine --> Islamic) to 100% (Byzantine --> Byzantine). These numbers apply to AI chances of researching a tech that has an attached Flavor.