|
Shannon V. OKeets -> RE: Scrap Lists - Default (8/19/2008 6:09:35 PM)
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: Yohan
Hi Steve, they actually do seem to be different enough. My real concern will be more with all the small circles surrounding the units to show status and the colours there may be challenging for the colour blind.
The issue with the colours for units will be when they are on the map and side by side. As an example, we are playing 7 Ages and we actually had to put dots on a couple of the empire colours so they show distinctly. More of an issue there with 15 empire colours.
Rob
P.S. It does happen in Board WiF as well. I was playing with a buddy who is also colour challenged and he and I would be rolling merrily along. Then my brother would drop over and ask why an Italian was stacked with a Russian <g>
quote:
ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
quote:
ORIGINAL: Yohan
Ah, there goes my colour blindness again. Should have looked at the unit names. I was looking at the Russians.
quote:
ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
quote:
ORIGINAL: Yohan
I would keep the German 4-2 sub and the JPN amphib
quote:
ORIGINAL: Shannon V. OKeets
Here are Michael's proposed scrap lists for Missed The Bus (which starts immediately after Vichy France has been declared). China scraps nothing.
[image]local://upfiles/16701/69C0C59D4E144B6A8F551C1C6904CED6.jpg[/image]
JPN amphib? Which unit is that?
Do the Japanese and USSR units appear as different colors to you?
Or as a broader question, do any of these major power colors (the Chinese are missing from this group) appear virtually identical?
Thanks for letting me know.
The status indicators are unlikely to cause trouble because the position of the indicator is the important thing. For instance, the disorganized position is either blank or indicates the unit is disorganized - it is either on or off. I use colors too, since I like redundancy when communicating information, but those are not as crucial.
An example of multiple colors at one position is for supply where there are 5 stati: None = in supply, dark green = HQ secondary supply source, bright green = HQ primary supply source (very rare), yellow = out of supply, muted red = isolated. What appears for units on the map most often are None, dark green for HQs, and yellow. Muted red comes up too occasionally, but when you are playing a game isolated units should be pretty obvious.
In the positions where more than 1 color was needed, I used a specailly developed color palette that should make all the colors appear different to everyone, regardless of how they perceive colors.
|
|
|
|
