Cyan is haunting my dreams

I just played a game where 5 of the 6 people playing WERE THE SAME COLOR. CYAN BLUE. That blue that zk lobby gives you.

It annoys me so much. So VERY much. (along with the whole starting without ready bit)

Will it be particularly difficult to enforce a !fixcolors before the server launches? Do you guys really hate people who dont use local team colors? It seems the consensus is that everyone actually LOVES that annoying as hell cyan color. And its annoying me.

TL:DR STOP USING CYAN PRETTY PLEASE :|

Also, how is a jack considered slow?

By default there is a widget (Local Team Colors) which fixes team colours ingame and gives everyone consistent colours relative to you. Like any widget don't expect things to work if you disable it. F11 is the poweruser area, they are expected to fix their own problems.

If you dislike the default colours you can disable the widget and use your own selection of colours by editing teamcolors.lua found in the engine install.

You are meant to use menu settings to tweak gui -> escape -> settings (wrench icon)

I would like to correlate colours too but I gave up on that a while ago. Now that everyone uses local team colours you will not be able to discuss anything in terms of colours anyway.

I agree that it would be nice if we could identify players with certain colours, but do you know what !fixcolors does? It sets your colours according to preset choices. The reason we went with localcolours.lua is because we were doing this basically every game anyway.

Now, granted, if you disable local colours you can tell your ally 'Hey, blue, could you go attack here?'. But If they -dont- have it disabled, you cant.

The reason we did this is because with very large games that are becoming typical in spring (5v5 etc) its hard to tell allies from eachother, allies from enemies and both from yourself if they are both different shades of one colour. Localcolours fixes this: You are always teal, players always have different colours, enemies are always red-yellow colours.

So you can argue that as a default policy we should disable localcolours and go with a lobby-side solution, but you disabling it yourself and asking for support isnt going to help you identify players to colours.

If you want to play without localcolours, just remember to pay attention to the colours displayed and !fixcolors before you launch if they are screwed. Its what you'd have to do anyway.

Now that we have complete control over colours, a range of other criteria have arisen and advantages to this system become apparent. Notably, one of the criteria used by licho is that colours are not too dark, so that the icons show up well with their black-rimmed borders and details. The 'samness' of colours is also rather relative (you cant just compare values as some hues are more distinguishable than others). With the preset list, we have large and specific differences, and the easiest to distinguish colours are always picked first (so the smaller the game, the clearer the colours). For pure gameplay and recognition reasons, this system is superior.

remove the "shouldnt be too hard"
Im cant code, im no programmer and it sounds a bit rude of me to say that.

Or even easier, give all players the same team colors assignation.

I know how it works. And still think its easier for local team colors to assign the same colors for everybody than intercept colors names in chat.

To control your colour without controlling others you have to edit the widget. To control all colours enable teamcolors.lua in your engine folder and disable the widget.