If the Native Player is the Default, the board is doomed. Most players playing it for the first time will assume the graphics are horrible. The game is almost unplayable with the Native Player.

If it can be made to look right in the Native Player, that would be preferable, but if not it would be nice if the "default" was the Flash Player.

If there's something I can do to fix it to look right in the Native, please let me know.

I think Tom said he added ability to set default player to the map editor.  I haven't looked, but if you can find, it you can change it & promote the new version.

I thought he meant a 'global' default player set by each player for all boards, as opposed to by the designer for individual boards.

I just checked.  Go to your board design.  Under settings there is now "Player Type".  You can set it to flash there.

Yes, there's both types - a player 'global' default and a board setting. If the board setting is set it overrides the player choice.

The exception is iOS which can't use Flash.

So - why does it look bad?

I've adjusted the board to force the Flash player for Go-Geared.

Thanks Tom!

Why is the flash player being forced for this board? 

Surely you should let each player decide for him/herself.  I just tried playing the board for the first time, and being forced to use the flash player (which I don't like and never use) is really putting me off the board. 

If you add:

?player=native

to your URL when playing the board, does it switch to native?

Ozyman wrote:

If you add:

?player=native

to your URL when playing the board, does it switch to native?

Nope. Still uses flash player. Sadly. 

Amidon37 wrote:

So - why does it look bad?

I know A37 asked this a long time ago, but I think the answer is (in part) that I purposely used the exact neutral color to create the circles for the playing pieces in order to hide unplayed pieces.  For some reason the Native player doesn't like this and it's near impossible to see the color of the pieces.

I've noticed color discrepancies on some of my other boards.  Battle of Waterloo is just downright strange. The colors look much more vibrant with the Native Player, but the numbers are harder to read - it's almost like it uses a different font.

M57 wrote:

I know A37 asked this a long time ago, but I think the answer is (in part) that I purposely used the exact neutral color to create the circles for the playing pieces in order to hide unplayed pieces.  For some reason the Native player doesn't like this and it's near impossible to see the color of the pieces.

I've noticed color discrepancies on some of my other boards.  Battle of Waterloo is just downright strange. The colors look much more vibrant with the Native Player, but the numbers are harder to read - it's almost like it uses a different font.

Thanks for the info.

That's a shame. 

Other than the fact that I'm accustomed to using the Native player, I can't use the Flash player on one of my systems due to flash issues in the browsers (I don't control the system, so can't update the flash version to make it work).