Random color not work for games with AIs

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  • **GAME BUILD #:all patches
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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If I create a lobby with players and AIs (i.e. 4 players vs 4 AIs), all players who does not select color will be assigned a color by the sequence in the lobby.
It is useful when I want to assign positions and civs for AIs while take random positions for human players.

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. create a lobby
  2. first 4 spot for human players, others for AIs and assign their number as 5 6 7 8
  3. start a game

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

:point_down: What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?
4 human players’ colors should be random.

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I thought the colour assignment wasn’t random if everyone had chosen ‘random’ colour, and it’d just assign colours by player spot, e.g. host would always be Blue, second player Red etc.

Colour is largely meaningless unless you play with team positions enabled, anyway, no?

We’re already tracking this issue.
Thanks for your report!