I'd love to play a challenge for the gold color, but I'd love even more to compete for black!

Black and Gold would be pretty sick, and I think the memberships part would make sense.

Yes to all of these ideas!

A remark I didn't see yet: a new colour would need to be created.
After all, the 24 basic colours are all needed in any game with 24 players.

Orange red is the most metallic colour available. Electric purple is second in that list. Here are some suggestions for colour additions.

-Blueish silver (silver base, blue shine)
-Silverish green (green base, silver shine)
-Metallic black (so that adjacent territories of this colour will have visible borders)
-Trophy gold (it is supposed to look like real gold, not some brownish yellow...)

The last two ideas are just more exact definitions of two ideas already existing on this thread.

And now a note about me, so that you don't wonder what part of speech I am. I haven't played any game against human opposition and I never will. I know I 'll be the least entertaining player to watch, so why bother everyone with my entirely defensive style of play? I hate frustrating people for something not more serious than a game, so I prefer to frustrate AI opponents instead ;P

I don't see ones style of play, or skills to be detrimental to his ability to play against humans.. unless ofc' you have a poor skill and get childish when your losing, or a good skill and get stuck-up when you win

Funny, I am part of the 1% copper rose color.

NO WAY
pink is already mine

Btw. sasha grey, are you using a new account, or is this a new sasha grey fan? ;)

Mr. Perrin, my issue has nothing to do with skills or my own behaviour. It has to do with me playing extremely defensively. Nobody will like my playstyle, everyone will get bored as long as I am in a game. My second issue has to do with the behaviour of others. There are lots of cheaters in any multiplayer game and I truly hate falling on them. And my third issue is that I have a life to care about, so I don't want to worry about boot times and so on. Just now I was invited to a game and declined it without any hesitation. I 'll do the same with any other invitations I receive. And in case my inbox floods with invitations, I 'll just switch the option off and delete them all. Inviting me to games from now on means lack of respect towards my decision, so don't expect to get any respect back. Am I clear?

yes, it's me

|>.Black and Gold would be pretty sick|>

Black and Gold is a pretty sweet color combination but I may be a little impartial being a Bruins fan... (sorry NuckLuck!)

Sir Death, I still disagree with your first reason, but can understand fully your second and third reasons.
and am quite sure I haven't made any games to invite you to. but if I had, me and a portion of the community generally ignore boot times, and -most- of that portion wouldn't cheat even if/when we find ways too.

example: http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?GameID=1185315

in fact.. I am playing with someone with the same mentality.. the main reason he is playing with -me- is because me and him are related, but he'll probably never be in a MP game with anyone else..

http://warlight.net/MultiPlayer.aspx?GameID=1453203

Still I won't risk it. Single player is more fun for me. I like making tricky games (the so-called "fair shares" etc etc) and trying them out on my own against the AI. I don't want to bother other people with my obsession with calculations, so I do it all against the AI, which doesn't have emotions, so it won't be bothered. Trust me, you 'll get bored if you watch me play. What's more, there is that booting option, which sounds awful as a potential, no matter how I 'd be doing in the game. Some selfish players will definitely want to boot a defensive player such as me, so that they will expand faster and win the game more easily. The AI doesn't boot me as far as I have seen, and if at some time it does, it will be the last time I will have played this game.

Death, booting is only an issue if you take too long and exceed the boot time. Shouldn't be a problem in any multi-day game and same for real-time if you pay attention to settings or configure it yourself.

Still will prove much slower than AI games though simply based on waiting for opponents.

Thanks for clearing this out, Richard, thing is that some players seem to be able to boot someone in no time, let alone that I have a life to care about. To avoid getting booted, I assume I must remain stuck on the game (therefore my PC) during the entire game. This is also a reason for me not to be willing to wait for everyone else to end their turns. Warlight was intended to be a multiplayer game, but it turns out to be more fun in single player... What an irony...

I think szeweningen's idea of black is good, however I think it would blend in with the background of most maps. What about an achievement system where you unlock new colors as you play?

creeping death, multiday games have very long boot times. go to the open games page and set the default to multiday. you can obsess over numbers for days and not be booted if you like.

I know this is a bit off the main topic but I thought I'd respond to what Creeping Death has been saying:

Boot times such as you're describing where you'd have to remain glued to your computer and play the game out are only in the games you join with 5-minute boot timers on them. You generally hear a lot of complaining on the forums from people who are upset for being booted in such a game but the reality of the situation is that they joined those games explicitly knowing that if they didn't take their turn within 5 minutes, they were liable to be booted by anyone for any reason. Personally, I don't enjoy these games at all, have *never* joined a 5-minute boot game, and very rarely will play a game out in any great length in one sitting. As this is the case for me, I will only join games that typically involve boot timers of 2-3 days (or more) as I can generally guarantee that I can make at least 1 move per day in any active games I have ongoing. I think this could be an option that you might find you really enjoy if you had 2-3 days worth of time to plot out as defensive a strategy as you'd like.

The only reason I even responded with my 2 cents is that it sounds like you genuinely enjoy the game of Warlight and I would hate for you to pass up the opportunity to experience the Multiplayer aspects of this game simply because of some misconstrued information you had regarding the way it works.

I'd also be happy to play a game against you (or with you) without any fear of you being booted. Let me know if you're interested and I can set something up.

PS - I think Gold and Black color options would be awesome.