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Forced Player Colors

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I know how to change a players color after a map has initialized, and I know how to force player colors

Is it possible to force player colors AND change the colors in the lobby before a game starts??
If I change player 1 to something other than red, I dont want it to show red for player 1 in the lobby

thanks :)


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I realize I can swap player positions around and set fixed player settings, but then when players join the lobby they skip around positions instead of filling up each slot in a row... I guess I'm being too nitpicky on this lol, but I wish there was a better way cuz changing positions would require me to redo a lot of my triggers that I have setup :(
 
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To answer your question, no, the colors in the lobbies are in fact fixed and can't be changed.

In some of my maps I actually use the join order behavior to encourage even teams. Red will be on team 1, blue on team 2, teal on team 1, etc. However, this does make bot commands bothersome (I often wonder things like "which number is orange again?" when needing to close slots in the lobby).
 
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thats a shame, there should be a way to make the button for player color to disappear completely when using "fixed settings"

I feel like it would be annoying/confusing to players if it didnt match, like if somebody sees the colors in the lobby then they would expect them to be the same in game... but I don't know, I'm still thinking about doing it anyway lol
 
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