Albion has a really nice colour scheme for their weapons and resources:
I: Grey
II: Brown
III: Green
IV: Blue
V: Red
VI: Orange
VII: Yellow
VIII: White
The colour scheme is clear and consistent and makes it really easy to tell the tier of any resource, armour or buildings. I like it.
At the same time, Albion also has another different colour scheme that it uses for zones, which from what I can tell from at look at the map follows this scheme:
I: Blue
II: Blue
III: Blue
IV: Blue
V: Yellow / Black
VI: Red / Black
VII: Red / Black
VIII: Black
As you can see, this colour scheme has the same 8 tiers, and uses largely the same colours, but but at a different order and at different tiers. It is completely inconsistent with the other colour scheme where red is 5 instead of 6, or where yellow is above instead of below red and corresponds to tier 7 instead of tier 5, or where blue is just tier 4 instead of all tiers from 1 to 4.
Look at the following example:
It's a red tier 5 zone and a yellow region.
Can I lose my equipment on death here?
Clearly not, as it is a yellow region.
But many times I walk into yellow zones just to remember seeing something red flash on my screen when I entered and I suddenly begin to self-doubt...
Did I just enter a red zone? Did I bring the wrong equipment?
It cannot be, I still have my warnings up for red zones, right?
*opens the map*
Oh, nevermind, it's a yellow zone.
And this happens not once, but many times a day to me, because the game has taught me one colour scheme but is also trying to at the same time use another with different colours.
I understand that once I spend most of my time in black zones this issue will be gone for me and I understand that changing either of these colour schemes at this point into the game is going to create more confusing among current players than the confusion it would solve, so I'm not expecting or demanding any changes, but I really wanted to say this:
Your choice of two different colour schemes resulting in things like tier 5 yellow zones that are safe and where you find yellow resources in dangerous red tier 7 zones in this game is really unfortunate.
I: Grey
II: Brown
III: Green
IV: Blue
V: Red
VI: Orange
VII: Yellow
VIII: White
The colour scheme is clear and consistent and makes it really easy to tell the tier of any resource, armour or buildings. I like it.
At the same time, Albion also has another different colour scheme that it uses for zones, which from what I can tell from at look at the map follows this scheme:
I: Blue
II: Blue
III: Blue
IV: Blue
V: Yellow / Black
VI: Red / Black
VII: Red / Black
VIII: Black
As you can see, this colour scheme has the same 8 tiers, and uses largely the same colours, but but at a different order and at different tiers. It is completely inconsistent with the other colour scheme where red is 5 instead of 6, or where yellow is above instead of below red and corresponds to tier 7 instead of tier 5, or where blue is just tier 4 instead of all tiers from 1 to 4.
Look at the following example:
It's a red tier 5 zone and a yellow region.
Can I lose my equipment on death here?
Clearly not, as it is a yellow region.
But many times I walk into yellow zones just to remember seeing something red flash on my screen when I entered and I suddenly begin to self-doubt...
Did I just enter a red zone? Did I bring the wrong equipment?
It cannot be, I still have my warnings up for red zones, right?
*opens the map*
Oh, nevermind, it's a yellow zone.
And this happens not once, but many times a day to me, because the game has taught me one colour scheme but is also trying to at the same time use another with different colours.
I understand that once I spend most of my time in black zones this issue will be gone for me and I understand that changing either of these colour schemes at this point into the game is going to create more confusing among current players than the confusion it would solve, so I'm not expecting or demanding any changes, but I really wanted to say this:
Your choice of two different colour schemes resulting in things like tier 5 yellow zones that are safe and where you find yellow resources in dangerous red tier 7 zones in this game is really unfortunate.
