Ball Color Problem

[bduddy]

^ Love that avatar (to smartkid if someone else posts first)... and I sympathize with the topic creator's problem. I'm not even colorblind, and I had a hard time telling the balls apart. Let's hope FIRST can be convinced to use better contrasting colors, or else this will be another officiating nightmare... I'm starting to be relieved they didn't let me be a ref! Aiden certainly won't be able to bring his newspaper to the real games...

[DtD]

I'm Red/Green Colorblind, and I can only barely distinguish the Moon Rock and the Empty Cell when looking straight at them when they aren't moving (EG: If I pause the video or look at a picture) otherwise they are identical. This is rather annoying because I was hoping to drive for my team this year. (I designed the way it was driven, but never actually drove it till after the comp last year )

~DtD

[smartkid]

Originally Posted by bduddy

^ Love that avatar (to smartkid if someone else posts first)...

Thanks! I put that together in Photoshop using a backdrop from a project of mine and a picture of Jeremy from Code Lyoko. I love that show!

[usbcd36]

I'm not colorblind at all, but judging from the picture, I would not be able to tell the difference between the two without close examination.

[ryanking09]

when I saw the three different balls originally i noticed how closely the empty and the moon balls appeared to be. If u were in the heat of the game, these two would be difficult to distinguish between especially if they are 50ft away.

Im sure the manufacturer only produces these three variants but maybe enough criticism about the colors and they may produce a new, very distinguishable ball.

If they however do not change we can only hope that good eyesight and lots of practice will help "comfort" this problem. It has already been mentioned that the manufacture of these "orbits" are made by blip toys, which never mention their orbit ball on the website.

[martin417]

Perhaps they could swap the super cell and the empty cell colors. there is no penalty for carrying two super cells.

[Valley Raider]

I'm just going to point out that the fact that people are color blind isn't the only problem. Yes that will make it impossible for them to see the difference but its hard to see in the first place.

I've been on our drive team for three years and keeping track of what going on on the field is hard enough without distinguishing between slight color variations among 120 game pieces.

[bduddy]

I think it would make a lot of sense if the empty cells were solid white, gray, black or brown. I mean, they don't have any energy, right? And this could easily be accomplished with some cans of spraypaint, or even better a big tub of real paint

[JamesByrne]

I am not by any means a programing expert on this new system, and I have not really even played with the new system at all. But what about using the camera to figure out the difference.

I agree with a previous member, this might be a planed thing also. Because there is a lot of things in real life that you can not distinguish between very easily. This adds to the competition in my mind.

Let me know your thoughts.