Being slightly colorblind myself (my wife just says it's a guy thing), I even have to squint to see the difference between Dregin and Drath. Korx/Iconian I really have a hard time though, Krynn are a bit darker.

You know that when you change a colour of a race it keeps that colour when it is played by the AI?

I didn't change the color of any of the races. It's a completely fresh install. Perhaps it was the Korath, but I thought it was the Drengin. I got crushed in that game relatively quickly so I didn't even get to explore much, and I turn blind exploration on.

I'm not color blind. There's just 4 different grey races somehow. There's gotta be some unused colors in there. Maybe the Korx could be fuschia. Or puce. I hear puce is good. The Korx could be pink. Everybody likes pink. And pink is evil just like the Korx.

For the Krynn, you need some sort of religious color. Ochre isn't, but it'll work.

Speaking of colors, and I know this has been suggested before... but it would be great if players could change the color of the "fog of war" background. I could never figure out why it's that muddy brown color, instead of something neutral like gray. I dialed down the saturation of the Drath orange color for the UI, but I couldn't use the resulting color I wanted, because it was too close to the brown fog color (my autopilot paths were hard to see).

Even if it's not actually coded into the setup screens, it would be nice if we could set an RGB number for the fog in a config file somewhere.

Well, i'm not here to question SD designers choices, but it sure is somehow more difficult to distinguish between too many shades of greys. My point was that the human player can alter these figures permanently and save them as often as s/he pleases.

Lucky you, i was just about ready to design a special scenario for X-Worlds where ALL aliens had a swift cyan type on the map against the single lonely tiny lavenderishlike of X-Com. Thus, you couldn't be able to tell them apart for TACTICAL reasons. See, that's the trick with very similar or exact values... the scope of gameplay changes.

And yet, too many greys is annoying, i agree.

Dark Violet hue is directly opposed to sharp yellow on the "artist wheel", btw. Saturation and/or Lightness included. I won't bother anyone with RGB/CMYK theories though. Still, primaries DO mix well if properly handled.

What about some of the Minors common avocado? I can't tell their ships apart, do you?

Coloring power comes with the decisions you must take - or not.

- Zyxpsilon.

Exactly. You might be able to change it, but by DEFAULT it shouldn't be so poorly designed like that. Me as Korx, against an Iconian, Korath, and Krynn opponent is a recipe for frustration. I just remember that on the minimap, Iconians are the lightest, Krynn are the darkest, and Korath are pretty much the exact color of the fog of war.

Going to agree. More color to default. The ability to change it is excellent but getting them all reasonably different is harder for some, AND a default standard is always a plus for screenshots etc for showing others.

Will save someone explaining who is who depending on the screen.