27-03-2002 11:16									#1
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Hate that stupid French pink color?

Change it in Editor to royal blue.

Sometimes changing colors causes crashing, but this has never crashed for me.

Once, while playing in a game against the Germans, Bismarck's boys turned yellow. When I added Egypt (normally yellow), Germany turned red. When I added Rome, Germany turned orange. And the games worked.

Perhaps there is a combination of civs that will crash it; maybe not. I suppose if you play ALL the civs it will likely crash. But so far so good. Anything is better than that horrid pink.

	28-03-2002 00:22									#2
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Changed the French to white (colour of the French monarchy, which ruled France 8/10th of its life, and still a third of the French flag). Changed the Barbs to pink, because Barbs are whimps, and get killes very soon, so you don't have to bear this pink anyway.

	28-03-2002 03:58									#3
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This has been discussed in many threads, but you can avoid crashes by using only the first half (17?) of the available colors in the editor.

Your's is the first suggestion for assigning pink to the barbs. I like it, but I give it to England, since maps used to (and may still) represent the territories of the British Empire with that color.

Some of my other choices:

Russia - red
US - light blue
France - teal
Germany - black (their color in Diplomacy)
Aztecs - blood red!
India - shocking pink, reminds me of a sari
Egypt - turquoise
Babylon - orange (see ancient-age picture of Hammurabi)
Persia - dark blue, no good reason
Rome - royal PURPLE, of course
Zulus - brown, the color of the veldt?
Iroquois and Greece get green shades, I forget which gets which
Japan gets gray as a leftover, it wouldn't normally be my choice if more colors were available.

	28-03-2002 03:59									#4
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I forgot China - yellow.

	03-04-2002 02:44									#5
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I just started a game as Japan and found that it was hard to distinguish my territory from desert (?) on the minimap when I used the gray color for Japan (as I mentioned above). So I quit and changed Japan to white and Barbarians to gray.

That works well enough, since the Barbs are not displayed on the minimap, and the white city dots do show up against the off-white territory color.

	06-04-2002 05:16									#6
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quote: Your's is the first suggestion for assigning pink to the barbs.

That's one of the first things I did when I got the game on Christmas. Logic requires it.

quote: I like it, but I give it to England, since maps used to (and may still) represent the territories of the British Empire with that color. India - shocking pink, reminds me of a sari

But you know, I think we're talking about your India pink, here... The one that initially goes to the French. I don't think that pink is very reminiscent of British pink...

My India is gray, like in Civ1. I gave the "blood red" to the Mali (Zulus replacement).

	13-04-2002 04:44									#7
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What I did...

Rome- Purple
Greece- Neon Green
Germany- Black
China- Turquoise
Japan- Grey
India- Pale Pink
Aztec- Red
Iroquois- Green
Egypt- Yellow
Babylon- Orange
Russia- Dark Red
America- Light Blue
France- White
Persia- Dark Blue
Zulus- Brown
Britian- Blue
============
Barbarian- Pink


The reason I did the stuff that I did...

Rome: Senatorial purple looks kinda like the Civ3 purple.
Greece: Gets its color as a simple leftover.
Germany: Black is on its flag, symbol of Austria and Hapsburgs.
China: Turquoise is basically a leftover that fits in.
Japan: Gray in color, would fit with almost everyone (color only).
India: Rather give them the light pink, its more respectable.
Aztecs: As with the previous poster, the Aztec lust of blood.
Iroquois: Get a more "natural" green than the Greeks.
Egyptian: Favorite building material--sandstone--is yellow.
Babylon: Orange is a common color with Hammurabi.
Russia: The Soviet Unions favorite color in Worker's Red.
America: Needed to be blue, light blue was just left over.
France: White is a symbol of the various houses, better than pink.
Persia: Also needed to be blue, again dark blue was left over.
Zulu: Got brown as a leftover, better than pink at least.
Britian: As with America and Persia, got handed a blue.
=======================================
Barbarian: Bunch of brainless idiots deserve pink.

I know I was really similar to the previous list, but great minds think alike, right?

	23-04-2002 22:47									#8
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Why Royal Blue, if anybody should be Royal blue it should be England, if not Royal Blue, British racing Green, or Red (Old soldiers wore red!)

	24-04-2002 04:17									#9
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Having the French white is OK with me, but it makes it a bit difficult to see the city size numbers. No big deal though.

The Histography screen looks like the colors of an Easter egg, though!

	29-04-2002 17:37									#10
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Yeah that histograph sure is purdy!

In my current game, large max civs, the Americans are pink! The colors sure do change when you have more than 8 civs in one game.

	30-04-2002 05:22									#11
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The colors are really a little "Fruity".

Maybe some PC anti-war statement by pacifistic Culture Flipping crowd at Firaxis.

	19-06-2002 08:07									#12
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"Great minds think alike" or "Fools never differ", either works.

Rome - purple (the emperors wore this colour)
Egypt - yellow (no change)
Greece - lime (no change)
Babylon - grey (no particular reason)
Germany - black (as in Prussian black)
Russia - orange (no particular reason)
China - red (as in red china)
America - lt blue (had to be some form of blue)
Japan - lavender (the samurai look cute in this colour)
France - blue (napoleonic to early 20th century soldiers wore blue)
India - pink (so his UU would look even more stupid)
Perisa - aqua (no particular reason)
Aztecs - dk blue (most aztec art used a lot of this colour)
Zulus - brown (similar reason as above)
Iroquois - dk green (a foresty colour)
England - dk red (coat colour of british soldiers in the 18th and 19th centuries)

	19-06-2002 09:57									#13
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China has been red only since 1949.

Rome is associated with red as that is what its legions wore.

So I disagree with making Rome anything but red.

	20-06-2002 12:56									#14
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What if I hate the French?

	20-06-2002 14:19									#15
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quote: Originally posted by Eli What if I hate the French?

hi ,

make them pink , ....

have a nice day

	23-06-2002 19:09									#16
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I kept changing colors and I could never get it to work, it always crashed.

If you extract this .zip file into your Civ\Art\Units\Palettes directory, there will be no more color problems. this doesn't overwrite anything, it just adds more .pcx files to that directory so you can do any civ with any color you want.

Attachment: colorfix.zip
This has been downloaded 2 time(s).

	24-06-2002 04:28									#17
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The color crash problem was supposedly fixed with v. 1.21f. Were you using this patch?

When you say "any civ with any color you want," you mean you can select any of the 31 colors in the editor, don't you?

Wouldn't it be great if Firaxis would let you specify any color at all?

	24-06-2002 04:44									#18
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No, I don't use the patch because I am still using a hacked version of Civ. I am bidding on some right now on ebay so I'll have a real version soon. Yeah, you can use any of the colors already there.

	24-06-2002 10:46									#19
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Frankly, i hate most of the civ colors.
Sometimes i'll play a game with Rome or Germany, just because i like their colors.

I was really angry because the worst colors were given to the best civs. China, America, France, and Egypt got the worst colors in the game.

	25-06-2002 01:55									#20
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A lot of people agree with you, Jarvin, hence the many threads on changing team colors. Now that all 31 colors in the editor are available without a crash threat, we have a better palette to chose from than the default colors.