DOTLAN EveMaps

Just a quick note: I doubled the number of colors which I use on the maps. I’ve now 36 colors (12 colors * dark/medium/light) and I hope that this will reduce the problems with alliances having the same color on the map.  I just can’t use every color because I’ve always to make sure the text inside the system boxes are still readable.

How are the colors assigned?

I load all alliances that had sovereignty on this map in my history database and assigned the colors in the chronical order. When all colors are assigned I start from beginning. This method allows me that on a single map the color per of each alliance will be the same the next day or when you scroll back in the history. On a different map your alliance still can have a different color.

With currently over 1700 alliances and over 320 alliances that were holding sovereignty in my history database, it would be a hard job to assign fixed colors to alliances. On the big influence map all alliances hava a color assigned but only a few alliances are shown due to their influence which limits the number of simultaneously displayed colors.

– Update –

I found a bug in the color assignment which resulted that some colors got more often assigned then others. I fixed it and it’s now working as intended. But it is still possible that alliance are getting the same color and/or just a brighter/darker one which is already used. Until I find a better solution with so many alliances it will stay this way.