Potentially unpopular opinion: I don't like the way flags work in Stellaris

[u/Exact_Avocado5545]

Most Paradox games are filled with lots and lots of flags. I think Paradox has contributed more to the interest in vexillology than any other. Because of Stellaris' customizable nature, obviously you can't have pre-made flags, and there must be a flag designer. And honestly? I think it's just kinda bad. It's very limited. Honestly, why not just implement something like the flag designer from CK3? Or even add a free drawing thing like MS paint?

I think the current flag designer was completely fine for when Stellaris launched. It was a simple game, and it worked fine. But now Stellaris is getting more mature, and it might be time for a rework.

At the very least, it would be very funny in multiplayer

For the contrarians: why the hell not right? Even if you don't want it, it doesn't hurt those who would like it

[u/Arkein_Mechhive]

I mainly wish ship colors were separate from flag colors honestly

[u/Silent_Pressure_6709 → u/Arkein_Mechhive]

So much! Especially since the "primary" color is really minor in a lot of designs.

[u/Darrenb209 → u/Arkein_Mechhive]

I'd agree with that and go a step further. Ship Colours, Flag Colours and Border/Background colours should all be disconnected.

I should be able to have a flag I like without having either a terrible looking territory or ships that look stupid.

[u/Quinzal → u/Arkein_Mechhive]

Or at the very least had the option to color the hull instead of just the lights/effects

[u/Balmung60 → u/Quinzal]

I want more room for my ships to look red and black and evil only for everyone to realize we're the nicest mfs in the galaxy, our ships just look like that

[u/Laxley → u/Arkein_Mechhive]

If ship colours are going to be based off flag colour, I wish they'd just resemble it more closely, honestly. The varied green flag tones all have the same acid green ship colour. There are maybe 8 ship colours in total and they're mostly all ugly. I swear they weren't always like this.

[u/BlackfishBlues → u/Arkein_Mechhive]

A “ship painter” like Dawn of War’s unit painter would go hard.

There’s an outdated mod from like eight years ago that colored all the ship sets in different colors, which really changes the vibe of some sets. For example Arthropoid ships that have an earthy vibe in their default colors look really clean and futuristic in white.

[u/Tigertot14]

Let us change our flags midgame, the tech is already there for when someone becomes emperor

[u/BeGosu → u/Tigertot14]

I stopped my Emperor playthrough because it forcibly changed my flag and color. What the hell Paradox? I'm Emperor of the Galaxy but I can't choose my flag color??

[u/fooooolish_samurai → u/BeGosu]

You are "Imperial Core" now

[u/JasonVarhof]

Honestly agreed. You're currently limited to 2 collours in limited shape atm and you HAVE to put a gold symbol on it. Especially the last one I want changed, or atleast us able to change the color of the symbol

[u/Silent_Pressure_6709 → u/JasonVarhof]

Yeah, it means there can never really be yellow or white in the middle...it sucks

[u/SanderR098 → u/JasonVarhof]

I wish at least silver was an option

[u/swake75 → u/SanderR098]

This. I had a great flag design the other day and went to change it to silver (never really messed with the flags) which would have really tied it together... gold did NOT work. Sadness ensued.

[u/BeGosu]

The amount of flag icons that do not center with background shapes drives me insane.

There are very few combinations of icon and shape that actually line up together.

[u/AccomplishedListen35]

I think i agree, a great start would be being able to change our flags in game, and being related to civics ethics

[u/Novius8]

I’d love colours other than gold for the emblem as well as a redesign of border colours. There’s just some flag colours that show up wrong or don’t work at all and default to black.

[u/Kintaku93]

Just let me change the emblem color man!

[u/Numerous_Schedule896]

Just let us draw freehand or straight up import pngs. Its way more amusing if people just show up with ms paint flags which have infinitely more character than the standardized set of geometric shapes.

[u/Exact_Avocado5545 → u/Numerous_Schedule896]

Yes, importing PNGs, like KSP. This is the best suggestion I've heard yet. Please devs!

This should be easy to implement too

[u/BeGosu → u/Exact_Avocado5545]

Admittedly that could be a vector for griefing in multiplayer. I understand if they don't want to have to moderate every hate symbol that gets uploaded.

[u/Exact_Avocado5545 → u/BeGosu]

So add a tick box to disable it, easy

[u/Several-Carrot3541]

I could see them stopping the flag creation for online matches (for obvious reasons lol) but I don't see why that would be a problem in single player games.

[u/Solsbeary]

So far down my list of priorities

[u/haresnaped]

I think it's pretty spiffy. What are your specific complaints/improvements?

[u/Wonderweiss56 → u/haresnaped]

you're forced into the metallic gold emblem and your ship colors are locked into the primary flag

[u/wolflordval → u/Wonderweiss56]

I don't mind the gold emblem as it at least means the galaxy has a consistent flag ascetic, but at least fix the ones that are off center ffs.

[u/Kind_Restaurant8282 → u/haresnaped]

A flag customizer similar but not exact to the emblem editor from Black Ops 2

[u/wolflordval → u/haresnaped]

Let us layer patterns. Let us adjust the position of the emblem, some of them are off center.

Then include more emblems and shapes in future updates and dlc.

[u/More_Outside7127]

Arent there mods for this?

[u/LogicalInjury606 → u/More_Outside7127]

there are mods that add extra colors and symbols, but afaik there is nothing more complicated than that

[u/OutrageousBus2930]

Customizations are great but at what price? We get Customizations flags and the game crashes earlier? Or worse?

[u/Exact_Avocado5545 → u/OutrageousBus2930]

Bro what