yeti_c wrote:croco wrote:I do like the idea of addressing people by name. However, now that I have more experience in CC I see that being a bit of an issue. People are still going to use color names and it would be hard to sort this out in the software.
Perhaps a better, and very easy, solution would be to simply change the colors so that they are more colorblind friendly. Get rid of red and start with g,b,y,p. That simple change would allow most colorbinds to play up to 4 person games without issue. After those 4, make it as colorblind friendly as possible but even just moving red from 1 to 8 in your color profile would help a ton. Could use white and black as colors as well.
White is currently used for Neutrals.
Black armies were denied as they aren't visible on a lot of maps.
The problem is - we use 9 different colours for the army counts as it is - and they are as far apart as they can possibly be on the spectrums.
i.e. the colours are a tweaked version of
White FFFFFF (I didn't colour this one)
Red FF0000
Green 00FF00
Blue 0000FF
Yellow FFFF00
Pink FF00FF
Cyan 00FFFF
Black 000000 (We use a tweaked black to a grey)
Then one had to be chosen in the middle of the ranges - and an orange seemed to be the best fit...
Orange FF8800
As you can see - the first 8 colours are as far apart as they can possibly be (based on hex values).
I know this doesn't help you being Colourblind though... but if we removed Red - we'd then have to have another "mid range" colour - and the majority of people here would find it harder to distinguish who is who.
The other mid range colours could be...
FF0088
00FF88
0088FF
8800FF
888888
As you can see (although I appreciate you may not be able to) - these colours are too similar to the other colours... hence the choice of Orange.
(I know there have been complaints from some that Grey and Green are too close too each other too)
C.
I don't think it's possible to find 9 colors that your run-of-the-mill red/green colorblind person can distinguish in simple letters on the screen. However, you certainly can reorder what you have to make smaller games more enjoyable for us. By starting with red and green you make it impossible for us to play a game with easily distinguished colors. Simply moving red or green down the line would solve this and wouldnāt require any new colors. If you position red in-between pink and cyan you allow us to play 4 person games with easily distinguished colors. This seems like a very simple fix. Again, 7% to 10% of men are red/green colorblind.