neighboring COTs same color

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I'm currently playing as Portugal, on easy. From out of nowhere, in 1500 Andalusia, a Spanish province became a Cot. Now, That seems alright, even if it is 2 provinces from Tago! Anyway, it's market border's Liguria's market, and they are both red. I don't think this was intended

 

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ANNOYING

Although EU 2 is a little better than the original, the colors are still retarded. Andalusia is supposed to appear through spanish events, by the way.

At any rate, it is possible to draw ANY map with only 4 colors (this was proven mathematically a while back.) The only restriction with the 4 color thing is that discontinuous countries, such as 1492 Austria, may have to use more than one color. At any rate, EU 2 has MANY more than 4 colors to access - it should be rare indeed for two countries with the same color to border.

In the case of COTs, there are so few in the world that the game probably has room for a different color for each one. While we're on the topic, no COT should be colored the light brownish color that looks like an uninhabited province, either, for obvious reasons.

This shouldn't be too hard to fix.

 

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While it is theoretically possible to make those 4-colour maps you mention (I recall reading about it some long while ago), EU does not dynamically assign colours to countries, or to COTs. Countries have a predetermined colour. COTs seem to be based on their position in the save file (I added one at the beginning of the list, and they all changed)

 

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True, but in a game that runs in 16 bit color mode one would think they wouldn't run out of colors so quickly so often.

Why not have every country with a (at least slightly) different color?

Or, failing that, have countries that are only one province away choose different colors - for example, often times many of the German minors end up touching, whereas Ak Kyonlu and Austria rarely do so.