Ship Colours & Badges - will we see more variety

There is no in-game color editor but it's something we've considered for post-release. In the meantime you can have infinite control over the colors by opening colors.color with notepad and tweak to your heart's delight.

Super hot pink here I come !

You've been watching Miami Vice again haven't you   

Blair, thanks for that
Thats no problem at all for me.

However if I change the colours, will they be drawn correctly for other players.
For instance I make a black and white fleet scheme, I play an 8 player game online with said scheme.

Offcourse I should just try this myself

They will only be drawn correctly if you all have the same modded files

not much point then. I like the enemy to see me coming in all my fleets magnificent glory mwahahahahah.. ha!
Ignoring the laws of heraldry, I like a yellow striped grey bodied fleet.
For my ground troops I like a dark military olive drab with a yellow stripe.

White and yellow does not look too bad either, kinda angellic.

I guess we will see it in an addon.

P.S. Just to make a point though on this, I LAN regularly and guess what takes up most time in DOW and HW2? People wanting thier colours and badges to be just right. Its enormous fun to have your own customised paint schemes. People get used to knowing what you look like in game too. Ahhhh there are Destraex's ships, better form a plan... quick!

where is this colors.color file located?

nvm just found it

What color coding do you use for this?

It's RGBA in hex. I'm guessing you don't know hex since you didn't recognize it, you can use the hex converter at this link, alpha blending is the transparency, 0-255 for transparent to opaque, the same numbers apply to the color codes for red blue and green levels.
hex converter

ya well i figured it wasn't hex since that is six and theres eight digits.

No.... hex (full: hexadecimal) is 16. 0123456789ABCDEF are all valid values for hex. Hex is usually done in pairs, allowing for up to 256 discrete values per pair. (You may have noticed that in a lot of older games, and in even some more modern games, various values are capped at 255 -- they can go from 0 to 255 because they're stored in a hex format. 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2, so its 32 "bit" (16 bit with a doubled up value)).

I think he's saying that he was expecting 6 hex digits (RGB), not 8 (RGBA)

Also, you're completely wrong with your definition of a 32 bit integer. 32 bit means it uses 32 'bits,' ones or zeros. A signed 32 bit integer goes from around -2.14 million to 2.14 million. 0-255 is an unsigned 8 bit integer.

Bleh, thats what I get for getting up so early in the morning (seven o'clock is positively unholy!). Your right, of course.

I get up at 5:30 every weekday for work. Got you beat

i used to wake up at 3:30-4, i win

Go sleeping in till 10!