Civ Color Conflict

[vikingruler]

In my game as the Arabs I first met the Spanish who are turquoise. A few turns later, I see the turquoise border again, except it belongs to the Maya. I have no idea how this happend. Also, in the historygraph it is hard to tell where one civ ends and the other begins because it is just one big blue mass. Also, I'm playing aganist France who are i think always pink, being Arabs I'm pink as well. Anyone know what happend and what caused this?

 

[gmaharriet]

Are they exactly the same shade of turquoise or pink? I recently played as the Chinese with the Sumerians as neighbors...very slightly different shades of blue, but hard to distinquish.

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

There's a bug in C3C color assignments. It is possible to have more than one civ with the exact same color. The biggest problem is when they appear right next to each other on the histographs. Then there's no way to distinguish between them.

 

[Pounder]

Go to the editor and assign each civ a different colour with no alternate, that is; make the alternate the same as the primary.

This way the Civs will also have the same colour each game.

 

[gmaharriet]

Go to the editor and assign each civ a different colour with no alternate, that is; make the alternate the same as the primary.

This way the Civs will also have the same colour each game.

That's an interesting idea! I didn't know there were 31 colors available, but OTOH I've never looked in the editor. I thought the number of colors must have been limited or else the game wouldn't use the same ones for different civs.

 

[Brain]

That's an interesting idea! I didn't know there were 31 colors available, but OTOH I've never looked in the editor. I thought the number of colors must have been limited or else the game wouldn't use the same ones for different civs.

There are 32 colors, but one is for barbarians. The problem is that some colors are very similar, like the shades of blue you describe above. So to have as much color diversity as possible the game assigns one of two possible colors. But because of a bug it may assign the same color to different civs sometimes (although I never experienced this).

 

[megaclom]

Be happy you're not color blind, I have your problem every game, only there are just three groups, the redish, the yellow/green and the blue-like.

"This will cause war with [civ X] are you sure you want to ...." How many times have I got that message?!

 

[vikingruler]

Are they exactly the same shade of turquoise or pink? I recently played as the Chinese with the Sumerians as neighbors...very slightly different shades of blue, but hard to distinquish.

They are definitley the same shade of turquoise, it is impossible to distinquish in the historygraph. I haven't met the French, but in every game i play aganist them, they are always pink.
@Pounder, can you edit in the middle of a game?

 

[Brain]

They are definitley the same shade of turquoise, it is impossible to distinquish in the historygraph. I haven't met the French, but in every game i play aganist them, they are always pink.

French should always be pink, but I've seen them orange too. The Arabs should never be turquoise.

 

[Bluemofia]

I've seen Red French before.

 

[Ansar]

I had green and orange french and blue Dutch, also, Red Aztecs.

 

[ottawan]

I solved that problem on the advice of another member here by using the "Colour Blind" option from preferences.

Using this option shows the civ name beside each city name.

 

[Pounder]

They are definitley the same shade of turquoise, it is impossible to distinquish in the historygraph. I haven't met the French, but in every game i play aganist them, they are always pink.
@Pounder, can you edit in the middle of a game?

No

You can't edit the assignments in the .bi* file because the file is fixed for the game.

The ntp0 through ntp31 files are the civ colours, some people on this site have made some new colours, so it is possible to replace some of the colours and get 32 distinct colours. When you open these files you have to zoom in to 1600% to see the base colour as there is only one pixel displayed in the file, but there is a different palette for each file.

I have replaced several of these colours with some I have found on this site because I prefer for example the Greeks to be that nice blue rather than that terrible green and the British to be Red, etc..........

 

[DBear]

It would've been much simpler to assign the civ colors from the startup menu. I hope they let us do this in Civ4.