I can't..

[Propaganda]

..seem to change the civ colors, and names, without having the game crash on me. I'm getting annoyed. What is the problem?

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

posted by someone from Firaxis a while back:

However, there is a way for you to avoid the crash. If you look in the Art\Units\Palettes folder, you should see a bunch of files named otp00.pcx-otp15.pcx. If you copy and rename these files so that you have otp00.pcx-otp31.pcx, the game will no longer crash when you change a civ's color.

worked for me