Color Change On Quads Games
Problem
Occasionally during a quads game I'll be on the red/green/blue/yellow team and I'll hit yellow (my own teammate). Besides the obvious lack of attention to detail, I believe there are a couple more subtle reasons for this.
Suggestion/Solution
1. Red, Green, Blue are harder colors whereas the enemy pink, cyan (light blue), (mid-light) orange, silver (somewhat light gray) are much softer colors. My mind sees the hard to soft discrepancy and naturally assumes for a moment that the very hard to see yellow is part of the other team. The yellow is even lighter than the rest of their colors and so I think that takes away the instinct to second guess in that unfortunate moment.
2. Yellow is on team 2 in trips games! If you got some trips games going and its red, green, blue versus the lighter colors inc. yellow then its easy to forget that yellow is now on your team.
Conclusion
I'm not saying this is a mistake that I make often. But it's a mistake I've probably made 5 or 6 times now in my CC career and I think that I may have made it zero times if that 4th color in quads game was the more logical dark purple (and not the soft yellow). I think there are some other players out there that have made the same mistake and never bothered to piece it together why they made the mistake. But if they thought about it now then they would agree that dark purple is the better option for the fourth player in quad games. Heck you could still have yellow - just put him on the soft color side.
