Peoples of the Right Colors

[Dr.Null]

I recently played a map which ended up mostly shades of brown (Mali, Mongolia, Native Americans, and me playing the Celts). It occurred to me that someone might choose competing civs by color coordination rather than other considerations. Anyone ever choose the nations on your world-map by color palette?

Like, a map of warm colors might be:
- Japan
- Russia
- Netherlands
- Carthage
- Zulu
- Inca
- Egypt


A palette of cooler colors might be:
- Babylon
- China
- France
- India
- Rome
- Sumeria
- Vikings


A map could be all shades of green:
- Arabia
- Aztecs
- Ethiopia
- Greece
- Ottomans
- Portugal


You could do all washed-out, pastel colors:
- Byzantium
- Celts
- England
- Germany
- Mali
- Spain
- Vikings


Any thoughts on which of these, or other color-coordinated groupings, would be fun to play?



PS: Since we who inhabit the Internet have discovered Aesthetics, this discussion is entirely valid.

 

[lymond]

Greece is blue...same as their flag

 

[CocoIsKing28]

That does seem kinda cool, and yes, Greece is blue

 

[nerdfighter13]

I normally try to avoid it. But when the AI are all similarly colored, I am forced to thin the herd. Otherwise, it is a little confusing.

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

I wouldn't choose to have it that way, but the RNG seems to choose it for me more often than should be possible. My last game was as Rome (purplish). Out of 7 other civs, 5 were some shade of purple or dark blue. Very confusing in an "arrgh why are France and Sumeria right next to each other" kind of way. In the past I've seen all the oranges, all the browns, and all the reds. Just weird I guess.

 

[lymond]

Byz is bad in any combination. I can never see their culture. I think their color is called "transparent".

 

[Manco Capac]

Byz is bad in any combination. I can never see their culture. I think their color is called "transparent".

Zoom out and push culture button.

 

[elmurcis]

Zoom out and push culture button.

Conquer and change that colour to different

About colours - when there are 18 civs, there is not too large choise but.. yeah, i like better to see "strong colours" around me than just some.. shadows.. Still I really don't like Korea colour.. I always find them last just because I didn't see that colour

 

[jarhead_leif]

Very much confusing when i was playing as Greeks in an archipelago map having close borders with Persians and Mayans. >.<"

 

[TheMulattoMaker]

Very much confusing when i was playing as Greeks in an archipelago map having close borders with Persians and Mayans. >.<"

"Whaddya mean I gotta declare war to go on my own land?!? ...oh wait... oops"

 

[Koning]

I'm an inverse racist in this game: for some reason I tend to attack civs of the some colour first

Too many civs of the same shade on the continent isn't cool. Civ 3 gave civs an alternate colour, to avoid these situations of confusing borders. Would have been nice in this game too..

 

[Antilogic]

I am embarrassed to say that I have done a little color coordination in picking the civs to play against. I've done both warm-colors and cool-colors games. Although recently I have made sure that the colors are different enough so that it's easy to tell where the borders are.

 

[lindsay40k]

I once encountered Spain, opened borders, and sent my Chariot straight through her land and then into bordering Sumeria. Cue Beavis & Butt-head giggling when I glanced at the minimap.

 

[lindsay40k]

Merging borders with the future civs is the main reason I stopped playing Next War. Co-ordinating? That cow, The Lady, came to the party in the exact same dress as me!

 

[Kid R]

A long time ago Attacko presented good evidence some colour civs were stronger than others. I don't remember the details but playing a pink civ in a war game surely has to be a bad move.

Combos of the blue/green/turquoise are always worst for me as I am a bit colourblind with those.

 

[vandermerwe]

A long time ago Attacko presented good evidence some colour civs were stronger than others. I don't remember the details but playing a pink civ in a war game surely has to be a bad move.

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=8022439&postcount=93
and the following few posts of blinding wisdom. Apparently brown civs are better for attack but shouldn't settle anywhere near grassland. England's colours OTOH suggest settling on 'volcanic tundra', whatever that is.

This is, of course, the superior.

 

[AdamCrock]

All the more reasons for me to LOVE Catherine and Toku I dislike China too becaouse they are pink (Thou should be yellow me thinks) and have a bad case of mixing up with Cathy so her empire seems larger sometimes Also brown is not really my color and uncle Genghis have a really bad case of moustache. Taking the moustache category into consideration clearly and undoubtedly Stalin leads the race so it's down to Russia again

I don't know why The Devs got such clear stand on Russians to be red and Americans to be blue. It's somewhat like down to a good capitalists versus evil commies tho Russia had no official flag untill actually yellow-black-red with two-headed eagle in front (Flag of Tsar of Russia 1693) and white-blue and red stripes as the Naval flag most of the time. Than later it was "coat of arms flag" black-yellow-white ("Romanov dynastic flag") untill the vile commies taking out the Tsar and his family in Yaketinburg estambilshing tyrany. Soo the conclusion for Russia is that in my opinion they should be white (Like in Civ 1 ) The commie episode which took place only about 100 years or so in the long history for Russia was too short to paint all Russians red imho. Their coat of arms tho (Two headed eagle) is sometimes red but not in some variations About the Russian flag I encourage You to read an interesting article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Russia

Another Civ colour that doesn't sits well with me is the Babylonians colour I would love them to be green while Turks to being red but that is just me and for that I cannot present a sensible argument like I did with Russians

 

[s.bernbaum]

Apparently brown civs are better for attack …..

That's because when the defending stack counterattacks and scares the s**t out of the attacking stack, no one notices, so it's not demoralizing.

 

[Antilogic]

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=8022439&postcount=93
and the following few posts of blinding wisdom. Apparently brown civs are better for attack but shouldn't settle anywhere near grassland. England's colours OTOH suggest settling on 'volcanic tundra', whatever that is.

This is, of course, the superior.

I'm glad the newer members of the forum are being made aware of the glory of Attacko.

 

[capnvonbaron]

If I had a nickel for every time I looked at the mini-map and thought, "Oh crap! Ghengis is getting out of control huge! I need to go cull his expansion a bi... oh, wait, nevermind, he's just snuggled up next to Sitting Bull."