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As a colorblind person, the colors are good, with the exception of Italy and Austria. Those 2 are more difficult than anything on the current map.

I like the new colours.

I like it except for Germany. The gray is too close to the blues of France and England. I'd rather it stayed brown to increase the contrast.

Very nice. The only things i don't like are the support arrows, and Austria and Italy's colours, although i know you did that for helping colourblind users (so maybe just adjust Austria's shade back a bit?).

Is there some way to change the support arrows to include the letter s
such as
^
|
S
|

Does not come out too well with my fonting but I think you all get the idea.
Use the arrow to show support to move and a straight to the unit to show support to hold.

I agree with the loud thing, I would like to see it toned down quite a lot.

Ahhhh my eyes...
keep the current colours

Frankly Im not keen at all on England being Blue...It was Pink in History on maps and Pink it should stay. I also feel Russa should be lilac or light purple..white is too stark and makes people go pie-eyed looking at it. The other colurs will do but Austria might be a bit more rusty-red

the only change I would advoacte is to Iceland and Ireland..they should be black like Switzerland i.e impassable not confusingly the same colour as England....god knows why...in my board version they are the same colour as neutral countires and that is bad enough.

what about people with epilepsy? i'm sure they will get an attack if they click on that link :-)

I think both color sets are pretty, and I liked the idea of having maybe a radio button switch to let players see the map how they like.

By the by, I was browsing around on your site to see how you make the dynamic map changes of territory control, but I couldn't find anything. I don't know if this is a state secret, but if not, I'd love to know how you did it. Thanks!

I prefer the suggested colours over the current ones. It's easier to see the borders.

I prefer the current colours, these new ones are too loud. Also, a white Russia is not too bad (make it maybe grey/silver as someone else suggested?), but England should stay pink!

if the intensity could be toned down a little I would love to see russia white.
but for the most part prefer the current set up

I like the colors on the link (I'm getting confused by what the "new" colors are Vs the "old" colors) but I do think the contrast needs to be looked at - the German fleets on the small map are almost invisible, but on the large map they're fine.

I think Edi's idea of letting the game creator chose a style is a great one. just between the two schemes of course, not like a create-your-own.

on a side note - Kestas, I thought you were Australian - don't you guys use the British spelling "colour" rather than the American "color" ?

Wow, the vote seems pretty split. For all the people saying that the colours are too "loud", keep in mind that Kestas will most definitely fade them out if he wants to use them.

Kestas, you still haven't revealed what 7kill is. Clearly they've adopted your code. Do you know who they are? Are you working with them? It seems that this zhong character is their leader.

if they were toned down a bit I would have no problem. maybe like it better actually.

really only england germnay and russia change. and france lightens up a lil.
the other will be the same color after being toned down

I was assuming that that site was the Japanese translation done by paranoidjpn mentioned in the credits on this site. Am I right? do I win a prize?

@Sic - "france lightens up a lil" haha that's funny for some reason. They could certainly use it.

I dont care much for the french people I've met.

It looks to me like Chinese though.

I like the idea of having a new colour scheme, but I don't like the Russian white. The grey suggested by spyman is better, because that way the lightest colour on the map is the blue of the water provinces. Also some of the new colours will have to have their saturation lowered but that has been pointed out by many others already.

Im not sure what 7kill is actually, Edi forwarded a message to me from Zheng and used his site to show what the changed colors would look like

philcore; I'm not sure how we're supposed to spell it, but we're always caught between the middle of English and American
Also paranoidjpn's translation works were done to phpDip 0.5, and I haven't heard of him since then, so I expect it's someone else. And I don't think the site has been translated; they're posting Japanese but the code embedded text is still English

ah good point, it's not translated at all. No prize (prise) for me :-(

I guess "prize" isn't one of the diffrerent "z" words, cause that just looks funny!

kestas, edi just wants to destroy the site, by making it look like stabberfou. you should keep that in mind

I too ne of the "color blind folk" and the whole Austria Italy Germany area can be a cluster**** of units while making it hard to tell who is who.
I would favor a color change, but the only places that need changed are 2 of the 3 problem areas. So changing Germany to a Light blue and Austria to a simple Red would be nice. AND greatly appreciated

7Kill is the name of a Chinese website that is running Diplomacy.

Do you know who's running it? How did you find them and how did they find phpDip's source code?