Help for colorblind players

[oliver909]

As a color blind person I have a hard time seeing borders between countries in EU4, will there be a "colorblind friendly" mode in project Ceasar? For example a small thing like being able to change the colors manually of countries while you play would make a big difference for me.

 

[alexkowal123]

maybe you could ban the game from using certain colours? So if you know you're blue purple colourblind, ban from using one of them.

 

[oliver909]

Yes, these colorblind modes are good as well, although I think they are tricker to do but I'm thankful for anything I can get

 

[Thorum]

Wouldn't it be easier to choose the country colours so they are easily distinguishable for the most common colour blindness? Keeping similar to "historical" colours, of course.

And the UI should definitely be colourblind friendly since they're starting from scratch.


Same goes for people with bad eyesight who need larger fonds or, as in another thread, being flexible for translations

 

[gustavjaune]

A colorblind mode with simpler map colors and clearer UI sounds good.

In a related question, how are mods that cater to this? It seems like the spectrum of impairments in rather large, and I'm honestly wondering if the devs are better at this than the people who know how to solve some issues through living their whole lives. A modder who is actually colorblind knows exactly what the issues are and can probably change them. Or someone who can't point the mouse very accurately making some changes to make the game only-keyboard. The list could go on, and if the devs were to make a special mode for all of these, how high would the quality of these modes be?

I'm definitely not trying to be insensitive, honestly wondering how these mods were for eu4 for example as I did not interact with them.

 

[oliver909]

A colorblind mode with simpler map colors and clearer UI sounds good.

In a related question, how are mods that cater to this? It seems like the spectrum of impairments in rather large, and I'm honestly wondering if the devs are better at this than the people who know how to solve some issues through living their whole lives. A modder who is actually colorblind knows exactly what the issues are and can probably change them. Or someone who can't point the mouse very accurately making some changes to make the game only-keyboard. The list could go on, and if the devs were to make a special mode for all of these, how high would the quality of these modes be?

I'm definitely not trying to be insensitive, honestly wondering how these mods were for eu4 for example as I did not interact with them.

I would rather have the devs try to make a colorblind mode than have to rely upon modders solving it. Not saying modders are not good at what they do, I just prefer not having to download mods.

 

[Swamphill]

Victoria 3 has colorblind mode settings. So I would expect that to carry over to newer releases.

 

[oliver909]

Victoria 3 has colorblind mode settings. So I would expect that to carry over to newer releases.

Ooh, I'll have to check those out

 

[Johan]

Victoria 3 has colorblind mode settings. So I would expect that to carry over to newer releases.

We are looking at it as well.