Give players ability to change map color at will. In multiplayer, map color change should require a vote and host approval.

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As a Dai Viet player there has been so many times I'd wished that I wasn't stuck with a map color that literally looked like bare dirt. So much so that sometimes I thought I was looking at the map of a completely unpopulated country. It's gotten to the point where I've resorted to editing the game file to give it the velvety red color of Annam (btw both Annam and Tonkin have incredibly pleasant looking colors, yet Dai Viet which is supposed to be your end goal of reforming into has a map color so ugly most players would be tempted to trigger the disaster that divided their country in the first place). But this makes getting achievements impossible. It would be so much easier for me and other players who hate their map color with a passion to have the ability to change the map color of their country at will using a color wheel, and/or perhaps giving players the option to "steal" the map color of a country that hasn't formed yet, or is completely annexed by another country. Should the country whose color was "stolen" emerge/re-emerge, the game could either give them the color that the other country changed out of (or a random color).

This ability could probably be abused in a multiplayer game, by changing a country's map color into one that's totally identical to another country that they're at war with to confuse their opponent. In which case I think there should be a voting system in place to prevent that from happening. Or at the very least make the decision require the final approval of the host to prevent abuse.
 
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It's also a major issue when fighting similarly coloured nations. Playing a colonial Scotland game is a nightmare - you, your colonies, castile/spain and their colonies all have a very similar shade of yellow. Likewise, Sweden/France, Great Britain/Burgundy, are problematic. I doubt we will see options to change colours within EU4's lifetime, so hopefully we can change colours on the fly mid game in EU5.
 
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