Choosing random affects color?

[No.Dice]

Occassionally, when i choose to random my civ, the civs show up as the wrong colors. For example, the chinese will be light blue, the babylonians will be red..etc. Just a few minutes ago i started as the purple indians, which was a first, usually my color displays correctly. So why does this happen in some games and not in others? Its no big deal, its just been bothering me for the past couple of days.

I have a feeling its going to be something blatantly obvious too.

 

[Klasanov]

I thought they were always like that...

 

[joycem10]

are you using a different world size than you normally use? I know some civ colors are different on huge as compared to standard.

 

[No.Dice]

Originally posted by joycem10
are you using a different world size than you normally use? I know some civ colors are different on huge as compared to standard.

I had no idea, i usually play on huge maps and just assumed those were the default colors for the civs. I had bumped the world size from huge down to standard, to compensate for the extra difficulty 1.17 added, after a couple failed attempts on a huge pangaea/emperor.

I've played a few standard maps, everything seemed in order. I guess some civs keep one color, while it varies throughout the difficulty levels for the rest? Or more likely the color is decided based on the color of the other civs present.

Thanks

 

[simwiz2]

"Just a few minutes ago i started as the purple indians"

Indians are always purple in my games. IIRC every civ has 2 colors, if another civ has taken their first color then they use their second. so if you go random, there will be different civ combos, and that will cause civs to change colors.

 

[No.Dice]

On any map with 16 civs, the civs are always colored
Rome: Red
Greece: Green
Germany: Blue
China: Light pink/ beige?
Japan: dark red (or light brown)
India: gray
Aztecs: dark green
Iroquois: purple
Egypt: yellow
Babylon: dark blue
Russia: brown
America: sky blue
France: pink
Persia: teal
Zulu: black
England: orange

If i random Rome, i'd take the color red, correct? If the AI randomed Rome, why wouldn't it also take red? How can there be a conflict of colors, if each civ has its own unique color? Unless the AI selects colors that are more visually pleasing. Ex: You may not want to clash pink/gray, or colors that are hard to differentiate (Japan/Russia).

I'm probably just missing something.

 

[D. Boon's Ghost]

I, too, have experienced this. For example, when Rome is set up as an opponent, Japan will be a dark green - instead of their usual red. India has been both purple and gray, depending upon if the Iroquois are in the game as well.
If you look in the editor, some of the civs have two colors.

 

[Bamspeedy]

Yep, if all 16 civs are on a map, all the colors stay the same. With fewer civs they sometimes change colors. I couldn't believe it when I played the Zulu's and I was yellow!

 

[Sixchan]

Each Civ has a primary colour and a secondary colour.

There are 7 or 8 primary colours shared among 16 civs.

e.g.

Iroquis:
Primary: Purple
Secondary: Purple

The Iroquis are what could be called the "dominant" purple. No matter what civs are playing, the Iroquis will ALWAYS be purple.

Indians
Primary: Purple
Secondary: Grey

The Indians on the other hand, are the other purple, which could cause problems when both the Iroquis and Indians are playing. So they both switch to their secondary colours. So, the Iroquis, whose secondary colour is Purple, stay purple. The Indians, whose Secondary colour is Grey, change colour to grey.

In the Roman example, the Roman's Primary and Secondary colours are both red, so they stay red no matter what civs or map you're using (unless you change their colour manually).

Hope this helps.