[Freeciv-Dev] Re: minimap city colors?

[Jed Davis <jldavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Monday, 19 June 2000 8:49 -0400 Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 2000/06/19 07:50 , David Pfitzner wrote:
> > A city and unit visibility fix of June 7 changed the way cities
> > are colored in the minimap, such that the minimap color no longer
> > indicates the city occupied status, but instead cities are always
> > a different color to units.
> >
> > Was that deliberate?  If not, a simple patch such as the following
> > would restore the old behaviour, though with fog of war I'm not
> > actually sure the old behaviour is best, since most enemy cities
> > look unoccupied simply due to fog (see previous discussion...)
> Yes, this was deliberate.  I thought knowing about a city was more
> important than knowing about a unit.
>
> I think something like your patch would be fine, if we used some different
> colors (in fact, I don't like the current colors for even the current set
> of information).
Agreed.  The the color for [unoccupied,fogged,whatever] enemy cities 
(cyan?) didn't show up well against the green background, so I sometimes 
found myself losing track of the cities.
One possibility would be to use a different color for a fogged city than 
for either occuspied or unoccuspied cities, and maybe even a fourth for 
units...  Of course, with two sets of colors (allied and enemy) and two 
colors for land/sea, this could get a little complicated.
Just my $.0004

--Jed