On the style of national borders:

[Auncien]

Observation and suggestion:

I'm looking at the new crop of screenshots and they look really nice. I can't wait to play.

One thing that is bothering me, however, is how the national borders look on the map. They look too busy when you see just a single border because of dual-color scheme. When you see two borders side by side, it looks really sloppy. You have four lines of four different colors. Yuck.

I propose a change.

Remember in Civ III how the borders were a dashed line? How about we go back to that instead of dual bars? Perhaps if you want to keep the two-color national color schemes maybe alternate the dashes between, say, red and white.

R W R W R W R W

instead of...

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
WWWWWWWWWW

so that if you had two adjacent borders you'd have...

R W R W R W
G Y G Y G Y

instead of...

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
WWWWWWWWWW
GGGGGGGGGGGGGG
YYYYYYYYYYYYYY

That would make for a much less busy, much prettier political map.

Rawr.

 

[LysartheRift]

If you want it to be pretty...then the best idea would be to have a border outline and you can turn the border color on and off.

 

[Mango Elephant]

Yeppers, I like this idea good job!

 

[Abraxis]

It isn't two lines either, it's one line of 1 colour with a fading veil of the other colour trailing it. Looked fine to me.