Getting around the problem of multiple civs with the same flag...?

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I opted not to use the decal flag type, because my flags have some very specific designs on them (ie more than 3 colors).

However, the problem is when two copies of the same civ are playing, you can't tell which units belong to who unless you do a mouseover. This becomes a real nightmare when you're at war with yourself.

I'd tried screwing with the alpha so that the real image would be displayed with a border in the civ's team color, but that didn't work since I don't have White Flags set on.

Anyone know how to get around this?

 

[jcikal]

I still believe it would be far easier if each Civ's units would look different, besides the colors. I mean, you should be quick to tell a spearman that belongs to Civ x and the spearman that belongs to Civ y. Hopefully with the upcoming SDK we can model Civ to accept more units than are available at this time so each Civ can have their own distinct looking units.