Issues, Workarounds & Localization

There are two areas in which being colour blind makes the game hard to play.

1) in PI: on light coloured planets, moving the extractors around it's hard to see the difference in colour between the extractor and the background and therefore it's hard to visually see when things are overlapping, especially around hot-spots.

2) In the solar system map while probing: It may be hard to imagine if you don't have this problem, but people, like me, who have protanopia are nearly unable to see red on a dark background due to a nearly complete lack of red photoreceptors in the retina.

The little red dots (or red boxes for ships) are SO hard to see that probing is difficult and often times if I get a "hit" I have to literally guess where I think it might have been and zoom in there. It can literally take me a minute or more of careful searching to spot the little red box for a ship in space. In some cases I'm unable to spot it at all and just have to give up.

Now... I know I'm not the "typical" colour blind person but 1% of males have what I have and about 8% of people are colour blind to some extent or another so thousands of subscribers are having this "issue" (bug) to some extent or another.

Please PLEASE PLEASE!!! do something about it!

1) on the PI issue, it's a "paper-cut" type annoyance but adding controls to allow users change the Hue or Tint would help colour blind people set it up so they can see it properly. I would categorize this issue as minor.

2) on the probing thing, the issue is "major" hindrance to playing the game as intended and there is only one real solution, which is to allow users to choose their own colours to replace the default colours. In any case the red has to go. It's the worst possible colour that you could have chosen. If you don't want to implement a customization then at the very least, change it to purple or something more to the "blue" end of the spectrum.

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