colored units
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 11:41 pm
just played my first against bots game to get used to the web interface.
Thanks for all the effort which have been done to this platform!
I'm having a hard time to find out to which country the units on the board are belonging, since they are not colored in the country color.
Instead all fleets are grey, all armies are green - no matter which country. Also the supply centers (the round spots) don't have the ownership color.
By looking closer I now see and understand that the colors of the provinces are changing to reflect their ownership. Also there is a color spot under the unit to reflect the units ownership.
When coming from the Parker board game with colored units and colored supply dots, it seems not intuitive to understand the unit owner, or spotting stalemate lines, since my eyes are used to connect units of the same color and not equally colored provinces.
Would be great if the units would colored also in the ownership color. However then the contrast to the province in the same color would be less.
Wonder if nobody else ever had issues with this (was searching the forum, but no match).
Drawback of coloring the units with ownership color: to determine which unit is a fleet or an army, their shapes need to be quite different. On the large map, sometimes the province names are written above the units, which might make it hard to see the shape of the unit if it would be in the same color like the province is.
My vote: let units be in front of the province names (we know them by heart) and let units be colored in the owner color.
Thanks for all the effort which have been done to this platform!
I'm having a hard time to find out to which country the units on the board are belonging, since they are not colored in the country color.
Instead all fleets are grey, all armies are green - no matter which country. Also the supply centers (the round spots) don't have the ownership color.
By looking closer I now see and understand that the colors of the provinces are changing to reflect their ownership. Also there is a color spot under the unit to reflect the units ownership.
When coming from the Parker board game with colored units and colored supply dots, it seems not intuitive to understand the unit owner, or spotting stalemate lines, since my eyes are used to connect units of the same color and not equally colored provinces.
Would be great if the units would colored also in the ownership color. However then the contrast to the province in the same color would be less.
Wonder if nobody else ever had issues with this (was searching the forum, but no match).
Drawback of coloring the units with ownership color: to determine which unit is a fleet or an army, their shapes need to be quite different. On the large map, sometimes the province names are written above the units, which might make it hard to see the shape of the unit if it would be in the same color like the province is.
My vote: let units be in front of the province names (we know them by heart) and let units be colored in the owner color.