I guess I can live with the pirates being white but otherwise, I find a lot of white on the map off-putting. I have almost declared war on the freaking Iconians several times thinking they were pirates. Thankfully, there is a warning that stops the attack. They should be a darker gray but if they were they would probably be invisible
Also, as they improve the game, all the colors should be made to stand out on the map better. Some of the custom races are very hard to see with the darker blues and the darker reds. They are very popular colors, that are likely to be picked. The background needs to be lightened, brightened, and made standard for all factions. I have never understood custom tinted backgrounds for each race, unless that's the only way for them to show up on the mini-map. If that's it, there has to be a better way.
