Why Does Flag Color Default to Black in Game?

[Alastor17]

Like the title says, I'm wondering why the map colors don't always represent the flag colors you've chosen. For example a yellow primary and red secondary flag color gets you a yellow boarder and black interior. However, the inverse gets you a red border and yellow interior... Also, if you change the color to the yellowish-orange it defaults to yellow and black.

Does this happen to anyone else?

Absolutely annoying, it is.

 

[Losttruppen]

Are they maybe colours added in the 3.4 additions?

 

[Ohirra]

When you create a new empire from the main menu, the game pre-generates a default flag design that you then edit to your liking.

It seems the game somehow gets "stuck" on those pre-generated flag colours as your galaxy background , and not whichever colour scheme you changed it to when creating your new empire.

 

[Lorenerd11]

Some of the new 3.4 flag color options seem to lack galaxy map color data.

 

[GuardianGI]

Because the game for some reason adds a hidden third color when you make a new empire from scratch or if you start making your empire from some premade empires (confirmation?).
You have to open Documents\Paradox Interactive\Stellaris\user_empire_designs.txt and change black to null:
colors={
"yellow"
"red"
"black" <-------------change this to null
"null"
}

 

[Enfield_PDX]

Some flag colours simply don't work well/don't display properly on the Galaxy map. So when we expanded the roster of colours we set things up that if it can't choose the same map colour as the flag colour, it gets as close as it can or goes to default.

 

[Ohirra]

Is there a way to change flag colours to an RGB hex value instead of using names?

 

[TranscendentalDragon]

Is there a way to change flag colours to an RGB hex value instead of using names?

closest you can do is (achievement friendly) modding

 

[DYNIA]

when you create new empire there is always random colors, you can change them

 

[Alastor17]

Some flag colours simply don't work well/don't display properly on the Galaxy map. So when we expanded the roster of colours we set things up that if it can't choose the same map colour as the flag colour, it gets as close as it can or goes to default.

Thank you for the reply. Much appreciated.

My question is then why yellow primary and red secondary defaults to black instead of getting close enough. I would assume yellow (p) and red (s) would be a combo that would display well.

 

[House Centipede]

I know this is old, but honestly, this is important to me and a lot of people, so I'm commenting.

I made a bug report detailing the issue here.

I know it might seem minor, and doesn't effect the overall game, but I think it does. Reading the entire galaxy map at a glance, especially the small, balkanized states that arise was super easy before Overlord.

Aside from that, it just added so much flavor to the game, and I think it sucks the thing that was supposed to add more color options to the game bugged out and actually had the exact opposite effect, and it seems no one is talking about it.