Picking your Civ based on color / flag

Wodan

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I'm Cyrus at the moment, and the powder blue is wierding me out. It just doesn't look right. Reminds me of the old George Carlin spiel about sports teams. Yes, let's root for the Cincinnati Mice!

Anyway, my next game I'm going to pick a civ with a proper martial color. No light blue, no pink, nothing like that.

I suppose the Persians at least have a good symbol on the flag. Would be better if it was white on black, or something, though.

Wodan
 
salty said:
yeah let's make Gandhi pink mwhahahahaha :banana:


that is just plain mean.

I will NEVER dl that mod.
 
I like the reds and the browns for warring. The whites seem to be better for building. I am not sure what to make of Caesar and his affinity for purples.
 
I've just finished a game as Louis (royal blue). What opponents did the game give me ? Caesar (purple, and not too easily distinguishable from royal blue, especially on the mini-map), Hatti (yellow), Huayna (gold), Mansa (mustard) and Genghis (brown). The last four all blend nicely into the terrain and each other . . .
Oh yes, and Asoka (lilac). But I got rid of him early.
 
I just wish that when Firaxis made this game they would have used more modern flags. I understand that some civs have vanished from our world ( Aztec, Inca, ect.) but civs like France, Germany, China, Russia, ect. don't have modern flags? Nonsense, of course they do. I think it would have added more realism. I know you can download flag packs but they don't always work on maps made by the mod community. :(
 
Wodan said:
I'm Cyrus at the moment, and the powder blue is wierding me out. It just doesn't look right. Reminds me of the old George Carlin spiel about sports teams. Yes, let's root for the Cincinnati Mice!

Anyway, my next game I'm going to pick a civ with a proper martial color. No light blue, no pink, nothing like that.

I suppose the Persians at least have a good symbol on the flag. Would be better if it was white on black, or something, though.

Wodan

I don't mind the colors so much, but I do wish they would appear more visibly on the mini-map. The mini-map is almost useless compared to earlier versions...
 
I don't like Hatty's neon yellow...it really hurts my eyes to look at it. The white civs are just hard to see, especially in tundra areas. Isabella's pinkish isn't so bad, but it turns invisible on plains tiles.

I ended up getting used to the Civ2 civ colors, and it still freaks me out when I run into Russia and it's orange instead of white hehe.

Caesar is purple probably because purple was the official "Imperial" color back then.
 
We should be able to chose colors like in 90% of all strategic games released in the last 20 years! So you can pick the most standart colors and you will only ever face pink, purble, mostard, etc, if youre playing on a Terra Huge map with dozens of opponents.. but in that case your computer must be such powerfull machine that you will surely have some extra money to spend on a hot trophy wife, and soon enough civ iv wont attract you anymore god what am i saying.

In my ongoing game, im dark blue, and theres 3 other blue/purble/lightblue enemies close to me. I wonder what will the xpac 6 new colors be... Glowing Blue? Zebra? Rainbow? Blah.
 
i hate the light gray used for germans... thats the worst colour of the lot. You can never see your border if its in the forest or jungle.
 
drkodos said:
I like the reds and the browns for warring. The whites seem to be better for building. I am not sure what to make of Caesar and his affinity for purples.
It's a very Roman color. Most colored togas used purple, and it was generally a mark of honor.
 
I really hated my last game, where on my continent it was only me(Louis) and then Elizabeth and Bismarck. i could never really tell the difference between the two.
 
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