Another civ is using my color for two of its cities (bug?)

blueMoose · November 11, 2002, 09:58

In a SP game Im playing the Carthaginians (red) and occupy the south west. I just noticed there are two cities in the north east named, Lutrtia and Brundusium ,which are also red. They are not mine. Has anyone else seen two civs use the same color? Im new to the game, how can I check who the belong too?

gergi · November 11, 2002, 10:30

Romans.

In one of my games, I actually lost one of my best cities because I thought a warrior walking toward it was my own, when in fact it wasn't. The Romans were at war with me and took my city, when I wasn't paying attention. The Roman and Carthaginians are very close in color to each other.

Just be careful!

WarpStorm · November 11, 2002, 10:36

In addition to the redish colors, I've seen three teams with very close shades of light purple in my latest game.

vmxa1 · November 11, 2002, 14:58

Yes, Ihave found this to be vey annoying. All that was need was to use stripes instead of solid colors for the new civs. It is right up there with the advisor have only a three colors and two are nearly the same???

Inverse Icarus · November 11, 2002, 15:02

The Korea / Iroquois, or Korea/India colors are messed up. my friend thought he was fighting 1 huge civ when he was fighting 2,

Falconius · November 11, 2002, 17:26

I like games with realistic starting locations, so in my current game, the Egyptians and Ottomans are in the mid-east, and the Mongols are also pushing into the region.

Trouble is, they are almost all the same color. And there's no way to just click on a city to find out who it belongs to. You have to note the name of the city, and then try to negotiate with the possible civs so you can look at their city list and see if its there. If not, you have to go to the OTHER civ of the same color.

Another alternative is to go to the espionage screen, which also gives a list of cities.

This can be very "click intensive" work. One solution is to change civ colors in the editor.

Hopefully Firaxis will eventually patch in a way to click on a city to tell you its owner.

WarpStorm · November 11, 2002, 17:27

I would think that with all the posible shades in 16 bit color out there, that there would be an algorithm to prevent this.

statusperfect · November 11, 2002, 18:37

Try turning on TEAM COLOR DISC. It makes it easier to see the difference.

bartdanr · November 11, 2002, 22:39

I think what would be the ideal solution is to have national flags, a la Civ II. I'd love to see this available as an option, and then a slew of flags from different eras available in the editor.

WarpStorm · November 11, 2002, 22:49

Quote:

Originally posted by statusperfect
Try turning on TEAM COLOR DISC. It makes it easier to see the difference.

I did. The two lilac colors are nearly identical.

blueMoose · November 12, 2002, 17:53

It was those pesky Romans, didn't even know they were in the game. Thanks for the help