How about selecting your civ colour?

[David Pasquinel]

In Age of Empires, Rise of Nations and a plethora of other RTSses, when not playing a campaign game, players are able to select their respective team colours, wich would be seen in their unit's uniforms and buildings. I think that a customization feature like this would be great and would enrich the game experience even more.

The game already shows that it can swap the colour pallete of the units ingame (or have their sprites in both colours? dunno!), showing blue and red versions of the units, representing the ones you command, and the enemy ones, respectivelly. I would love to play with red-clad soldiers, against whatever colour the enemy base would like to them, instead of the default "you-blue-they-red".

To that be possible in-game I humbly suggest:

- Selecting your faction colour on your City Center or Alliance Portal. Custom RGB would be nice, but a limited eight or so colours would suffice.
- To avoid confusion in battles of same-colored factions, there should be a discreet but bright halo under the feet of your units, and none on the enemy's.
- And in order to be inclusive to colour-blind players, there should be an option to always see your troops blue and enemies red.

Yeah, I know the game size would be some MB higher, but i think that customization should be worth it.

 

[Skillz]

I think they could incorporate this in the far off future but they have more concerning things they should add into the game first before worrying about being able to choose your nations color.

 

[David Pasquinel]

I think that everyone is welll aware that the devs should fix the flaws first and look at other things later. But this is not the bug report section, it's the suggestion section, so I think that my contribution here is not superfulous nor out of place. Dont take offense in this statement, I mean none.

 

[Skillz]

No need to be hesitant with me David. Say what comes to your mind

I understand that this is the suggestion you have which is you posted it in the suggestion Subform and not the bug and known issue subform. Thank you for this.

I was just trying to convey that your idea might not be incorporated until the future. I was not insisting that it is a bad idea. I think it is a good idea, but i think the graphics are the least of their concerns. Hopefully sometimes they do get around to it.
Apologies for any confusion i may have caused.

 

[David Pasquinel]

Wassup, Skills. ^^

I try to be polite and clear about my intentions because the gaming community as a whole is filled with immature people that argue like true arses when trying to stand a point, so I try to be nice with everyone. We never know when you may find an angry keyboard gladiator, so it's easier to be safe than sorry!

So, yeah, I agree that my idea will be seem (if ever) in a near future. I'm just letting the suggestion here because nobody else said it before, and may appeal to the custom-your-stuff players like me.

In the meantime, just like you, i wish that the devs fix that deal-breaking flaws like the ghost attacks while online and the lose-connection-during-battle bug that flourished today after the server break.

Peace out! o/

 

[Skillz]

You might want to bump this thread after the next update comes out and if this hasn't been incorporated because i am certain by then so many new threads will have started and this little thread will have dissapeared into the large black hole that is known as the lost pages of the Ideas forum lol