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Vicky 3 done it, HoI4 Monarchy path did it, now we wait for EUIV.
That is all. :D
 
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I feel like there's a substantial gameplay benefit to having the major colonizers (including France and Portugal) be colors that are easily distinguished from each other on the map.
 
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Colors for the classical major powers have been the same since eu1 though.

If we change Portugal we would be forced to change Prussia as well.


I'm not saying no though, but I am not saying yes either.
 
Green is only associated with Portugal in recent times due to the revolution, is it?
Blue and White is associated with the Monarchy, Red and Green Republic.

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Professional Army uniforms were mostly blue aswell.
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House of Burgundy and Braganca featured lot of blue in the flags aswell

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The in game flag is missing the crown ;)
I could also make the case for white. No other major colonizer is white.

Green should be reserved for revolution/ republic imo.
 
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Okay, so the Portuguese frequently make use of blue in their architecture. Why does that mean Portugal should be colored blue on the map in this game?
I'm not sure, but do correct version should be "on this map"?

Anyway.... Why not? Always some fresh air
 
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Why is England Red? Why aren't they Green? Why is France Blue? Why aren't they Green?
As far as I can tell, this is purely a tradition among Paradox games. People in threads like this act as if there's some sort of standard for coloring countries on a map with a color associated with that country, but no one has ever actually demonstrated that there is such a standard nor presented an argument as for why there should be.
 
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As far as I can tell, this is purely a tradition among Paradox games. People in threads like this act as if there's some sort of standard for coloring countries on a map with a color associated with that country, but no one has ever actually demonstrated that there is such a standard nor presented an argument as for why there should be.
But I just did( and @moscal ) Cultural and historical reasons. Just because you refuse them, does not mean they have not been shown.
 
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As far as I can tell, this is purely a tradition among Paradox games. People in threads like this act as if there's some sort of standard for coloring countries on a map with a color associated with that country, but no one has ever actually demonstrated that there is such a standard nor presented an argument as for why there should be.
I mean they've been used in maps before, like all the maps on the Wikipedia page for colonization use those same colors for the 4 major colonizers. Not sure where they've been before that.

I don't care at all which colors are used for which countries per se, but I do care that major colonizers and typical neighbors must use different colors from each other. Some of these are bad enough already (Hungary/PLC occupations on each other are very hard for me to see), we definitely don't need Portugal and France to have the same color. The whole point of political map mode colors is being able to tell who owns things.
 
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