There are several primary Category:Colors in the game. In basic rainbow-order they are:
- Red for crew- and ship-
- Orange for crew-
- Yellow for crew-
- White for crew- and ship-
- Green for ship-
- Blue for crew-
- Purple for crew-
Each color is used as Gems in the mini-games. The six crew-gems ( ) are used in both the Crew-battles and the Diplomacy-battles. Whereas the Ship-battles use seven colors (red/white replaced and green added).
The other major use for colors is to identify either Skills (for a character) or Features (for a starship). Typically, each crew member will have 3 color-skills that can be upgraded. Similarly, each starship will have 3 color-features that can be upgraded. Oddly, there are only 2 colors (rather than 3 colors) for exactly four Tier-1 characters' skills:
(following sums/logic do not reference latest 2 crew + 2 ships since may-2017)...
Thus, we end up with the following sums per color (in the categories)
- Red: 43 crew members
- Orange: 38 crew + 19 ships = 57 total
- Yellow: 38 crew + 20 ships = 58 total
- White: 36 crew members
- Green: 0, since only used for phasers...
- Blue: 38 crew + 19 ships = 57 total
- Purple: 40 crew + 14 ships = 54 total
which needs to match up with the following sums per-character/starships
- Crew - 79 total
- Tri-color: 75 => 225
- Bi-color: 4 ==> 8
- Ships - 24 total
- All are Tri-color => 72
Both sums yielding 305 color-categorized-items total... :-)
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