What is your favorite colour scheme?

Favorite colour scheme?

  • Poland

    Votes: 10 8.3%
  • Assyria

    Votes: 10 8.3%
  • Venice

    Votes: 11 9.1%
  • Shoshone

    Votes: 22 18.2%
  • Brazil

    Votes: 19 15.7%
  • Portugal

    Votes: 22 18.2%
  • Zulu

    Votes: 4 3.3%
  • Morocco

    Votes: 5 4.1%
  • Indonesia

    Votes: 18 14.9%

  • Total voters
    121

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So CivFanatics, which new colour scheme do you prefer the most? I prefer Shoshone's, but you?

Poland
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Assyria
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Venice
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Shoshone
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Brazil
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Portugal (to the right, the white-blue one)
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Zulu
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Morocco
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Indonesia (the blue one)
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Wouldn't it be better to just show the Civilization Icons?

Anyway - Portugal, no doubt about it! :lol:
Indonesia and The Shoshone get the vote for best use of Teal - something that The Aztecs couldn't get right! :lol:

I dislike Morocco's, and I am severely disappointed with Venice's.

Other than those...

Link to video.

Finally, I remember there being a thread like this before... :confused:
 
Wouldn't it be better to just show the Civilization Icons?

Anyway - Portugal, no doubt about it! :lol:
Indonesia and The Shoshone get the vote for best use of Teal - something that The Aztecs couldn't get right! :lol:

I dislike Morocco's, and I am severely disappointed with Venice's.

Other than those...
(Video)

Finally, I remember there being a thread like this before... :confused:

Hm, good idea. I'll add the icons. Also yes, there's a best leader screen one too ATM
 
Until the last two were revealed, I was going to say Assyria. The gold on cream look reminds me a lot of cuneiform tablets, which is quite appropriate. However, the Shoshone look quite cool, so I'm going with that.
 
Purple is pretty imba. So Venice looks nice. And Brazil is nice too.

(What am I looking for? Is it distinguishable from all other civs? Do the colors blend well? And is it not damaging my brain? (like Portugal being blue/white just doesn't make any sense to it).
 
Probably Brazil. Green and yellow is always classy. Shoshone blue is probably my favorite single color but I'm kind of meh on the brown. Same with indonesia and their red
 
So CivFanatics, which new colour scheme do you prefer the most? I prefer Shoshone's, but you?

Poland
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Assyria
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Venice
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Shoshone
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Brazil
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Portugal (to the right, the white-blue one)
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Zulu
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Morocco
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Indonesia (the blue one)
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The Assyrian one is wrong: it's beige and yellow and not blue and yellow
 
(like Portugal being blue/white just doesn't make any sense to it).

What do you mean? :lol:
Seriously, Dark Blue on White is the best color for Portugal they could have picked.

And before you throw Portugal's current flag and spout it should be Red and Green, I'll remember you that that is the Republic of Portugal's flag you're seeing, and not the Kingdom of Portugal which the game is clearly trying to portray (what with the Queen Maria I as the leader, and Mare Clausum, the Nau and Feitoria and their Uniques).

Besides, the symbol for Portugal (the Five Quinas) are an integral part of the Shield of the Kingdom of Portugal, which has been in the flag since pretty much it's creation, and their colors are (obviously) correct! :p

Just a FYI. :)
 
Shoshone have a really interesting colour set, but purple is my favourite colour so obviously Venice! They might be hard to distinguish from Rome on the map though...
 
This topic is already covered in another thread, and has a couple hundred responses.

Look here.
 
I like Poland. Red and Black just looks stylish.
 
JSMCAG: Sure thing. My brain still doesn't like it :p

Haha, fair enough! :p It's just that I thought you didn't understand why it made sense, not that you simply disliked it! :lol: I guess you're now my evil antagonist, since I dislike Venice's! :scan: (It looks pretty on the map, but I think Gold on Light Blue would be a much better choice for Venice, and to me it makes no sense why they'd choose Cream on Violet instead...)

This topic is already covered in another thread, and has a couple hundred responses.

Look here.

Ah, there it is! :) Back then I answered I'm not sure about The Shoshone, but now that I've seen it, I like it a lot! :D They are easily on my top three! In fact, why not make a list?

  1. Portugal (Lovely colors, best choice for Portugal hands down)
  2. Indonesia (Really soothing and calm to the eyes)
  3. The Shoshone (I love their brown, and Cyan fits nicely)
  4. Brazil (It looks good, but it isn't very historical, is it?)
  5. Assyria (They look good, but nothing spectacular)
  6. The Zulu (I would prefer Brown on Yellow/Tan, instead of White - look at Shaka's shield!)
  7. Poland (The eagle is the wrong color, if only they switched it with Austria...)
  8. Venice (Not choosing Gold on Light Blue was a big mistake)
  9. Morocco (I dislike this color scheme, it's jarring to the eyes and hard to read, and it makes Morocco look like Santaland)
  10. The Confederacy (yeah, I know they only belong in the Civil War scenario, but I had to put it, it is too AWFUL not to)

Too bad I can't change my vote on that thread to add The Shoshone...
 
Brazil, because I love that shade of yellow-ish green (chartreuse?). Portugal, Morocco, and Assyria get to share to second spot for me, the former two because of their accuracy towards the (IMHO) most appropriate historical and/or current flags (and I much prefer white/blue for Portugal over green/red), and the latter because I've liked that combination ever since Into the Renaissance (where Saladin's faction had it) and I feel it fits the civ in question.

Then there's Venice, where I'm probably in the minority for feeling it's more unique and exciting than some combo with blue, gold, and/or red. As for the rest, I'm pretty neutral towards Indonesia and the Zulu and unsure what to feel about the Shoshone brown/cyan (it... works, I guess?), but the Polish colors feel boring and really odd (black White Eagle?). Switching it with Austria (you know, the country with a black eagle on its CoA) sounds good, but my favorite-if-complicated solution is to give Persia's colors to Russia, Russia's to Austria, and Austria's to Poland, with Persia getting something cyan.
 
[*]Brazil (It looks good, but it isn't very historical, is it?)

On Brazil's icon: it is historically accurate, even though that symbol (the cross over the armillary sphere) is originally a Portuguese symbol.

Case and point: the armillary sphere is on the contemporary Portuguese Republic flag, which in its turn is inspired in the first Brazilian flag (at the time of Pedro I, so you see, the flag is historically accurate)

And they obviously based themselves in this:

Flag of the Império do Brasil

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A stylised version of the Republican Portuguese coat of arms

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The thing is - even though the armillary sphere in Portugal's flag, these days, is often thought to mean something else, it is actually about Brazil. For most of its story, Brazil's flag was an armillary sphere.

This is Brazil's flag as a Portuguese colony and, later, under the United Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil as the semi-independent Kingdom of Brazil

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Even these days, the Brazilian flag has a Portuguese/Brazilian armillary sphere - the blue globe in Brazil's flag is the armillary sphere. In fact, the armillary sphere was used by Portuguese sailors to find they way around the ocean (by aiming it to the stars), and Brazil's Republican flag depicts not the armillary sphere itself, but the sky it was used for. So every star in Brazil's flag represents a state, just like in the US' flag, only in Brazil's case those are real stars, as they looked from Rio de Janeiro at the time the flag was drawn.

Either way, that's the armillary sphere, which is to Portugal and Brazil what the Scandinavian cross is to Scandinavia.

As to the cross - it's the old symbol of the Portuguese empire. It is the symbol of the Portuguese Air Force, Portuguese Navy, several states in Brazil, and if I'm not mistaken the Brazilian army still uses it in some branches.

It was a major symbol of the Empire of Brazil (the continuation of Portuguese America), as Pedro I, well, was born in Portugal and ended up being the Emperor of Brazil and the King of Portugal. It was also a huge symbol of Portuguese/Brazilian expansionism into inner Brazil and Spanish America. The "bandeirantes" ("flaggers") used these flags to mark the Portuguese territory and, especially, the Paulistanos (São "Paul'ers") settlements in inner Brazil. Because of that probably, these days, it's better known for being the flag of the state of São Paulo.

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TL;DR - The Brazilian flag is fully-accurate even if I think Portugal's colours take the lead here.
 
Civ colours are probably the only things I rate Brazil for. Assyria are close but meh, if Brazil have anything of worth, this is it and I'll be happy to show that.
 
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