Colors

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It's a strong preference of mine that Centers of Trade, as much as possible, should have the same color in the Trade map as their host countries do in the Political map. Trade map colors are determined solely by the order in which CoTs are declared in the scenario/save file (and afterwards in the order they appear), and I've thus reordered the cot declarations in 1820.inc in the current (0.6) template.

I didn't become aware that the CoT list was changing until immediately prior to posting, but I'm going to go ahead and post the 0.6 version anyway, before fiddling with the new list.

Colors are named below by a nation tag and a color name. The nation tags are chosen according to their color in the EU2 1.04 standard Political map; the color names are chosen by how they appear with the default 1.04 colors. While it would perhaps simpler to give the internal name (e.g. LightRed instead of DAN red), I've chosen not to due to the cases where it wildly disagrees with what's actually displayed (e.g. LightOrange is displayed as a dark bluish green, which I refer to as MAM green).

The order in which CoTs are assigned colors is:

1. TUR green
2. ENG red
3. FRA blue
4. PAP gray
5. HUN brown
6. PER bronze
7. SPA yellow
8. LIT lavender
9. OMA orange
10. PRU gray
11. POR green
12. SWE blue
13. DAN red
14. HAB white
15. BYZ purple
16. ENG red (again)
17. VEN green
18. MAM green
19. CHI brown
20. USA blue
21. RUS red
22. HOL yellow

After 22, the colors repeat from the beginning.

My best-fit reordering of the 0.6 CoTs is:

cot = { location = 357 } # Thrace        #TUR green
cot = { location = 247 } # Anglia        #ENG red
cot = { location = 385 } # Ile de France #FRA blue
cot = { location = 744 } # Alexandria    #PAP gray
cot = { location = 793 } # Ivoria        #HUN brown
cot = { location = 530 } # Tabriz        #PER bronze
cot = { location = 429 } # Catalonia     #SPA yellow
cot = { location = 336 } # Bremen        #LIT lavender
cot = { location = 160 } # Bogota        #OMA orange
cot = { location = 312 } # Brandenburg   #PRU gray
cot = { location = 549 } # Goa           #POR green
cot = { location = 253 } # Vastergotland #SWE blue
cot = { location = 223 } # Aires         #DAN red
cot = { location = 351 } # Austria       #HAB white
cot = { location = 543 } # Delhi         #BYZ purple
cot = { location = 724 } # Wollongong    #ENG red
cot = { location = 87 }  # Manhattan     #VEN green
cot = { location = 557 } # Ganges        #MAM green
cot = { location = 649 } # Hebei         #CHI brown
cot = { location = 46 }  # Biloxi        #USA blue
cot = { location = 275 } # Ingermanland  #RUS red
cot = { location = 702 } # Jakarta       #HOL yellow
cot = { location = 670 } # Bangkok       #TUR green
cot = { location = 778 } # Table         #ENG red
cot = { location = 765 } # Zanzibar      #FRA blue
cot = { location = 106 } # Hochelaga     #PAP gray
cot = { location = 615 } # Enkan         #HUN brown
cot = { location = 393 } # Napoli        #PER bronze

My reasoning here:
Thrace, Anglia, Ile de France, Tabriz, Catalonia, Bremen, Bogota, Brandenburg, Goa, Vastergotland, Aires, Austria, Delhi, Hebei, Ingermanland, Naples, and Jakarta are all chosen for their owners, all of whom have either the same color as in 1.04, or don't exist (or at least are unlikely to rebel) in 1.04. (Naples might perhaps be better off with OMA Orange for Italy.)

Manhattan and Alexandria are chosen for the changed colors of their owners in AoN.

ENG red's double presence in the list, and early (second!) presence in the repeat list, is problematic. Since there really aren't any remaining non-British CoTs which couldn't at least theoretically border a British colony, I decided to make all three ENG red CoTs British. Since making Europe look nice is a priority , Anglia is a shoe-in. Hochelaga is near enough to Anglia that confusion may result, so I colored it PAP gray (to match Canada). Of the remaining three British CoTs, Table has no revolters, so gets ENG red also. Ganges and Wollongong each have a revolter - Bangladesh in MAM green and Australia in DAN red respectively. Since DAN red is already taken and doesn't repeat, I made Ganges MAM green and Wollongong ENG red.

This left me with Ivoria, Biloxi, Bangkok, Zanzibar, and Enkan to color, and USA blue, TUR green, FRA blue, and two HUN browns to color them with. I placed the HUN browns at Ivoria (to match 1.04 coloring of that CoT) and Enkan (since it's the least likely remaining CoT to border Ivoria). Bangkok I colored TUR green; Siam's OMA orange is taken, and TUR green is almost the same shade as neighboring Dai Viet's VEN green. Zanzibar got FRA blue since it's further away from Ile de France than Biloxi, which got USA blue by default. (Perhaps the CSA could be colored USA blue also. Deep blue certainly seems a better match than the current SPA yellow, which I assume is just a leftover from CAS.)

The major drawbacks, as I see them, with this ordering:

• Neighboring CoTs Aires and Bogota, as DAN red and OMA orange, are somewhat difficult to distinguish. Perhaps swap OMA orange to Naples, to match an eventual Italy.
• Neighboring CoTs Goa and Ganges, in POR green and MAM green, are somewhat difficult to distinguish. Perhaps swap Ganges to ENG red for Wollongong.
• Neighboring CoTs Enkan and Hebei, though easily distinguishable, are still both brown.
• Bourbon trades through Ile de France and is thus FRA Blue, but is near Zanzibar (also FRA blue).

I'll be posting an arrangement for the updated CoT list shortly, as posted in the CoTs thread by VultureGFF.

Now - comments? *pant*

 

[Styrbiorn]

You want comment?
Ok.

Great work, just excellent

Don't change it after the new CoT list, as it will be changed, but wiat until that's done (or come with your own proposals).

 

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Sadly, as my historical knowledge of countries other than the United States doesn't really start in any detail until WWI, most of my proposals would be along the lines of "Mindanao? Yick. Why not leave it in Jakarta so we can make the area a nice Dutch yellow?" and "We just can't have a CoT in Mexico City without deleting the one in Alexandria, since PAP gray only appears once with 24 CoTs."

That said, it only takes maybe fifteen minutes to reorder things.

 

[Styrbiorn]

Ok, then

Just wait till the next version.

 

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0.71 CoT Reordering

cot = { location = 357 } #Thrace        #TUR Green
cot = { location = 247 } #Anglia        #ENG Red
cot = { location = 385 } #Ile de France #FRA Blue
cot = { location = 746 } #Egypt         #PAP Gray
cot = { location = 336 } #Bremen        #HUN Brown
cot = { location = 530 } #Tabriz        #PER Bronze
cot = { location = 429 } #Catalonia     #SPA Yellow
cot = { location = 393 } #Napoli        #LIT Lavender
cot = { location = 160 } #Bogota        #OMA Orange
cot = { location = 312 } #Brandenburg   #PRU Gray
cot = { location = 441 } #Tago          #POR Green
cot = { location = 253 } #Vastergotland #SWE Blue
cot = { location = 223 } #Aires         #DAN Red
cot = { location = 351 } #Austria       #HAB White
cot = { location = 600 } #Irkutsk       #BYZ Purple
cot = { location = 778 } #Table         #ENG Red
cot = { location = 87 }  #Manhattan     #VEN Green
cot = { location = 500 } #Aden          #MAM Green
cot = { location = 653 } #Shanghai      #CHI Brown
cot = { location = 548 } #Bombay        #USA Blue
cot = { location = 275 } #Ingermanland  #RUS Red
cot = { location = 702 } #Jakarta       #HOL Yellow
cot = { location = 666 } #Mekong Delta  #TUR Green
cot = { location = 557 } #Ganges        #ENG Red
cot = { location = 543 } #Delhi         #FRA Blue
cot = { location = 27 }  #Zacatecas     #PAP Gray
cot = { location = 793 } #Ivoria        #HUN Brown
cot = { location = 765 } #Zanzibar      #PER Bronze
cot = { location = 475 } #Trabzon       #SPA Yellow
cot = { location = 724 } #Wollongong    #LIT Lavender

Thrace, Anglia, Ile de France, Egypt, Bremen, Tabriz, Catalonia, Bogota, Brandenburg, Tago, Vastergotland, Aires, Austria, Table, Manhattan, Aden, Shanghai, Ingermanland, Jakarta, and Ganges all match their initial owners; Zacatecas and Zanzibar match eventual revolters (Mexico and Zanzibar, respectively).

Of the remainder, Delhi is specifically not BYZ Purple so as to provide an inland home for the repeated FRA Blue, which is moderately annoying to distinguish from sea blue. Mekong Delta is TUR Green, since it's a close match to its host country's VEN Green, which doesn't repeat. Ivoria I made HUN Brown since I'm used to it being brown and I'm stubborn.

Trabzon, Napoli, Irkutsk, Bombay, and Wollongong mop up the remaining colors in largely random order. The repeated SPA Yellow is bloody annoying, what with there being only one Spanish CoT post-February 1820, and nowhere in the world that's truly safe from Spanish colonies.