Colour Blind Settings?

[rico_samuels]

Hi,

I love your website but I really struggle to play Carcassonne with 2 players, as I'm colour blind and can't really tell the difference between Green and Red.

Is there an option to change the colour of the meeples?

Many thanks,
Sam

[asd123321]

Try setting your color preferences.

https://boardgamearena.com/preferences?section=playing

[CB Droege]

BGA represents the games as close to the physical game as possible, as per their licensing agreements with the games publishers. If the game publishers chose bad colors for their irl bits, then they will be bad colors here too. Take it up with the game publisher.

[Shobu]

There's some many unfortunate color choices made by publishers.
8% of the male player-base is color blind ... let's imagine of 4-male Carcassonne game .. there's actually a 36% chance of that game being made simply unplayable

[ViolentSilence]

BGA represents the games as close to the physical game as possible, as per their licensing agreements with the games publishers. If the game publishers chose bad colors for their irl bits, then they will be bad colors here too. Take it up with the game publisher.

The flipside of that though is if BGA can try out solutions on behalf of the publishers, suddenly they get the option of selling a new colour blind friendly set of player colours as an expansion or in future printings - it's potential a win for all parties, so why not try that as a negotiation if the developers are OK with trying it out?

[paramesis]

There isn't really a possibility for an official BGA solution for the reasons CB Droege mentions, but it is possible to resolve conflicts on a per-game basis using the Advanced CSS feature. See this thread for some examples for Carcassonne and Can't Stop

https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewto ... 30&t=17312

[rico_samuels]

BGA represents the games as close to the physical game as possible, as per their licensing agreements with the games publishers. If the game publishers chose bad colors for their irl bits, then they will be bad colors here too. Take it up with the game publisher.

I understand that but the problem with Carcassonne is the colour of the meeples. If I'm playing with 1 other person then IRL I would have the option to pick Blue or Yellow rather than the automatic red or green that BGA assigns you automatically.

So BGA arena could give the option to pick the colour of meeples surely? Which would have no bearing on the game publisher?

[Jest Phulin]

So BGA arena could give the option to pick the colour of meeples surely? Which would have no bearing on the game publisher?

This is somewhat already implemented. Premium players can chose their color preferences. And, Carcassonne requires that a premium member set up the game.

[estroncio]

Become premium so you can pick the color is the best

Anyway, you could workaround something by firing your developer console (F12) and pasting some code like:

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function fix() {
  const redPartisans = document.getElementsByClassName('partisan_ff0000');
  for (let partisan of redPartisans) {
    partisan.style.border = '5px black solid';
  }
  setTimeout(fix, 1000)
}
fix();

That would just display a black border around red meeples. Not the prettiest or most elegant way but surely someone can improve that.


(Notice in this example the meeples with the borders are the blue ones)

[mlytthouse]

I too am color blind and struggle with coloretto. I understand that we don't want to change what the game publisher has provided. However, something that would be nice is to have a pop-up/hover-over tool tip kind of box appear over the card in Coloretto to tell the person what color the card (or meeple) is in text... Blue, Green, Gray etc.

Maybe this could even be added as an option that one could set in their preferences. So the hover-over, tool tip could be enable/disabled based on preference

Thank you for your consideration in this matter