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Maybe I am just being obtuse, but I don't think the cultural and historical reasons you mention actually address my concern. I understand that various colors are associated with various countries. What I don't understand is why a color being associated with a specific country means that country has to be colored that color on a map. If you do a google image search for "political world map", the results you get by and large do not demonstrate these associations. So why is it a problem if Paradox games conform to the general trend and also don't have blue Portugal, or red UK, or whatever? If it's just your aesthetic preference, then fine, but don't go and act as if Paradox is doing something wrong by not accommodating you.
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In old times Prussia was yellow. But this was reworked and only old dudes, like me, remember this.
But I did not act like that. I made a thread, Johan took the time to answer a semi-serious post that I made, and I thanked him for at least considering it.
If anything, and forgive my presumption, you think I have done something outrageous. Tinto team changed some countries colours before, maybe Portugal and Prussia could use a change, as it seems quite a few players would like it. I'm just the vocal minority for Portugal
Fair enough. I'm not gonna force it upon you.
It's clear players have preferences on certain colours for certain countries. Prussia comes to mind. I'm sure if we changed England or France there would be several complaints.
And why it is a problem if they don't?
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You're right, I've been reacting more to what other people have posted in the past than to what you've actually posted here. I apologize for that.But I did not act like that. I made a thread, Johan took the time to answer a semi-serious post that I made, and I thanked him for at least considering it.
If anything, and forgive my presumption, you think I have done something outrageous. Tinto team changed some countries colours before, maybe Portugal and Prussia could use a change, as it seems quite a few players would like it. I'm just the vocal minority for Portugal
I think I'm just a bit odd in that I don't really have any preference about what color any country is.
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You cannot hide preference forever.
Give yourself to the Blue Portugal Side. It is the only way you can save eu4.
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All right, fine, but on one condition: Every province has to be a different shade of blue.
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I think a better question is, why isn't Fars yellow anymore?
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Alcohol consumption during developing of persian region
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If I google for old european maps it is shown in every possible colour except of blue.
It is shown in green, ochroid, yellow, orange, pink, red, white etc, but never in blue colour.
Even if I go to the separate counties there is not a single one shown in blue, example: https://maps-portugal.com/maps-portugal-old/old-map-of-portugal
As a reminder, during the Ancien Regime, white (argent/silver in heraldry) was used because symbol of purity and it was on royal standards, usually with golden fleur de lys (itself representing the holy trinity), one of the two exceptions to the rule of not putting two metals on top of each other (the other being the Kingdom of Jerusalem).
And all that is beside the point, the French coat of arms was "royal blue" background, not white.
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I think Portugal is green just because they gave the colours to other western european countries and then when they got to Portugal they wanted to have a different colour, not one that was repeated, so they chose the only "major" colour available.
England - red for historical reasons
France - blue for historial reasons (white could work as well)
Spain - yellow for historical reasons
Austria - white because red was already taken and even yellow was as well
Aragon - dark red-orange thing who cares it is meant to be annexed by Castile (dev mind)
Burgundy - burgundish colour because it matches the name, eh? also the same as Aragon, it's supposed to become part of France or Austria or Spain (dev mind)
Portugal - erm... blue? France got it. White? Austria. Erm... ok, what colours do we have available? Green? PERFECT, it even matches the colour of the flag! What, it wasn't used back then and it makes no sense? Too bad, look at the colour composition of western Europe now, perfect!
Jokes aside green was actually used by the House of Braganza before liberalism but for Portugal itself it I don't think it was used often.
The most fitting colour for Portugal it would be white, if not then blue.
England - red for historical reasons
France - blue for historial reasons (white could work as well)
Spain - yellow for historical reasons
Austria - white because red was already taken and even yellow was as well
Aragon - dark red-orange thing who cares it is meant to be annexed by Castile (dev mind)
Burgundy - burgundish colour because it matches the name, eh? also the same as Aragon, it's supposed to become part of France or Austria or Spain (dev mind)
Portugal - erm... blue? France got it. White? Austria. Erm... ok, what colours do we have available? Green? PERFECT, it even matches the colour of the flag! What, it wasn't used back then and it makes no sense? Too bad, look at the colour composition of western Europe now, perfect!
Jokes aside green was actually used by the House of Braganza before liberalism but for Portugal itself it I don't think it was used often.
The most fitting colour for Portugal it would be white, if not then blue.
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Burgundy and Aragon was not on the map in the original eu1 which had a 1492 start date. We also only had 31 colors in total that could be used on the map so many countries shared colors. We also had to use the same colors for terrain in the terrain mapmode.
Its 25 years ago though since we assigned colors, so I don't remember why on every country, but I think France, Sweden and Water were the blue priorities.