There are many different types of color blindness, vision impairment, or even just preferences in army colors. If Lack wanted to go find the one set of colors that would satisfy everybody he has about 16,777,216 different colors per player. Thus i think the solution should be to allow players to set their own colors. How? using a similar method to coloring text in a forum post. What i am suggesting is to have a place in the control panel where people can type in their 6 digit code to change the colors for each of the 8 people (ie 0000FF would make the army colors 88)
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I expect this to be a bitch to code, not to mention i dont know how badly it would strain the system if at all.
nice idea.
there might be some communication errors where one player says:
"Let's all attack red, he has a huge stack next to me" and everybody starts attacking blue
Still, it's a nice idea. We will just have to say the player name instead of his color
karelpietertje wrote:nice idea.
there might be some communication errors where one player says:
"Let's all attack red, he has a huge stack next to me" and everybody starts attacking blue
Still, it's a nice idea. We will just have to say the player name instead of his color
That's a very good point that I hadn't thought of. <laughing> But this is a very good suggestion, I agree.
a.sub wrote:There are many different types of color blindness
An old boss of mine was red/green color blind so I always kept a can of red spray paint on my truck so when I had to mark stuff in the grass I could mess with him
a.sub wrote:There are many different types of color blindness
An old boss of mine was red/green color blind so I always kept a can of red spray paint on my truck so when I had to mark stuff in the grass I could mess with him
I posted a new thread on the subject, mainly because I had a different suggested solution to the same problem. Check out "suggestion from colorblind guy" and feel free to discuss this thread there or vice versa.
One of the fundamental problems I have with discerning colors here is that it's the number font that's colored, not a black or white number on a colored swatch. The latter would be MUCH easier for a lot of us.
There just doesn't exist a collection of 8 colors that I could discern at a glance if you don't give me bigger swatches to look at.
Incidentally, for completeness, I'm what they call red-deficient. No problem discerning red vs green. But shades of red are a nightmare. Red vs purple, purple vs blue, orange vs yellow, brown vs red, etc. If you don't give me a big chunk of color to compare, I don't stand a chance.
