#Color name added in playerlist

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jagged kelp
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What is requested?
Add player color name next to player name in player list (may be optional or via widget)

Why?
A lot of times, during the game, players are mentioned by their color.
As due to multilangua community people tend to mix color names. Call "pink" or "dark pink" and the call is not working properly, as there is no common dictionary available (apart for basic color)

As a colorblind person I find it a bit annoying to being called by color name and await "wtf" labels at my location, to catch my attention.
A lot of times, at game start, I simply ask other players what my color is to better react to callouts.

If possible to implement, it would be a great help 😉

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Possible implementation after hovering over the player name with the cursor in players list. Lika a tooltip, maybe? 🤔

cobalt glen
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Sounds like a small change may improve the game a lot for some players

sullen socket
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Nice profile pic. I appreciate your sense of humor 🙂

Personally I like to call people by their name or part of it. Especially because the one people call white isn't white it's a sort of cream color and it drives me insane.

ivory otter
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Would autocomplete for player names help mitigate this?

jagged kelp
unique garnet
timber trail
gloomy magnet
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I'm also somewhat colorblind but I haven't found this to be such a big issue. Usually people only call me by color when I'm red or blue, which I can at least distinguish. Maybe it's different in the kind of lobbies you like to play in though.

It may help you to know that the colors in the playerlist are always in the same order. The players on top of the list in their team are always red and blue. The other colors are also always in same order, so you could write them down on a post-it note to help you out a bit. Also "warm" colors are in the red team and "cold" colors are in the blue team if that makes sense.

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I did get another colorblindness related suggestion added into the game last year (playernames in the bottom left info box when hovering over a unit) so the devs definitely do care about this stuff.

jagged kelp
# timber trail There already is autocomplete for player names

Maybe it would help if along with player nick mentioned in chat would go along with some "private ping" heared by player.

This way it would probably made more sense for players to call by nick, if it would also caught player attention with additional sound effect

jagged kelp
# gloomy magnet I'm also somewhat colorblind but I haven't found this to be such a big issue. Us...

You made a valid point with player color always the same order in the team. As blue/red are top of the tier for each team, most of the time I am not on this position ;).

Also with my colorblindness cold and warm color does not make any sense - if asked independently from the game I would mix them on more then one occasion :).

Due to this playing with standard colors, when looking at the map gives me no Intel. I tend to be heavy user of simplified colors - which not help when mentioned by color ;).

Just for communication issues I tend to use @loud saddle widget for fast switch between standard and simplified colors, to be able to react to chat calls (with 60% certainty) :D.

Also, seen in other games, for people with my color disorder there is sometimes option to change healthbar color of ally units to blue instead of typical green/red.

This also helps a lot.

Now I tends to hover mouse over unit, when standard colors are used, to identify hostile units. But I tend to address that by switching to simplified colors

gloomy magnet
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Yea I also still need to hover over a units a lot to see whose they are. With 16 colors it is what it is I suppose. At least the hover over thing is great to have even if it's not an entirely new innovation.