[Freeciv-Dev] Re: the things i dislike about freeciv

[Geoffrey Dunn <geoffrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just on this one point on distinguishing players (and on occasion the
flags not being distinct enough). Perhaps an additional option to the
solid colours would be to perhaps alter the unit images by a colour. So
that perhaps if there are 3 players then the client or server assigns
colours to those 3 and the unit images have their palette shifted
slightly in that direction to make them more distinct. You'd have
blue-ish and red-ish and yellow-ish units going at each other so "at a
glance" you can see who is who and look closer to see the correct flag
slapped on top of each unit. Would be impractical with very large number
of players but then I can't imagine most games involve more than 8
players. Just an idea. I'm too tied up in other projects to be able to
do it myself right now.

                        Geoff

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 13:14:51 +0200 Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:00:48AM -0400, Jamie Kawabata wrote:
> > 3.a. i was playing as hungary and one of the opponents was dutch, i
>     think, and i could not at-a-glance distinguish my units from
>     theirs.  that was a while back. it might be fixed by using one of
>     the new tile sets.
> 
> This is nontrivial to solve, how to make all of > 20 nations pairwise
> distinguishable?

and...

On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 23:57:27 +1100 (EST) David Pfitzner <dwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> 
> Freeciv uses mostly "real-life" nation flags.  So if some pairs of
> nations have difficult-to-distinguish flags, I don't see a good way
> around this problem.  You can chose to use "solid colours" instead of
> flags from the client options, though that is not as nice generally.
> Perhaps each client could (optionally and independently) decide which
> flags to display locally for each player :-)


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