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 Slightly different versions of the UCS are used by different mapmakers due to difference of opinion, but the One Key, made by [[offtopic:Calcion]] and [[offtopic:euio]], is now accepted by most mapmakers. Slightly different versions of the UCS are used by different mapmakers due to difference of opinion, but the One Key, made by [[offtopic:Calcion]] and [[offtopic:euio]], is now accepted by most mapmakers.
  
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 ==== Reasoning behind colour choices ==== ==== Reasoning behind colour choices ====
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 There remains a debate as to whether there should be one UCS for ancient times and another, reusing colours, for periods after about 500 AD, but this seems to have been solved by the division of the UCS into four sub-schemes (Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Late Modern). <del>Knowing the UCS fanatics around here, though, this will most likely be regarded as traitorous blasphemy.</del>  This has been accepted into the One Key. There remains a debate as to whether there should be one UCS for ancient times and another, reusing colours, for periods after about 500 AD, but this seems to have been solved by the division of the UCS into four sub-schemes (Ancient, Medieval, Early Modern, Late Modern). <del>Knowing the UCS fanatics around here, though, this will most likely be regarded as traitorous blasphemy.</del>  This has been accepted into the One Key.
  
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 ==== Most important colours ==== ==== Most important colours ====
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 ==== Alternatives to and controversies about the UCS ==== ==== Alternatives to and controversies about the UCS ====
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 While the UCS is the largest unified colour scheme on AH.com, hence the name, of course only a relative minority of AH maps employ it (although it has become the dominant standard for OTL maps, as was originally intended). Some parts of it enjoy use outside the UCS as a whole, like certain colours for certain nations (blue for France and pale red for the UK, for example), but just as often even those standard colours are not used.  While the UCS is the largest unified colour scheme on AH.com, hence the name, of course only a relative minority of AH maps employ it (although it has become the dominant standard for OTL maps, as was originally intended). Some parts of it enjoy use outside the UCS as a whole, like certain colours for certain nations (blue for France and pale red for the UK, for example), but just as often even those standard colours are not used. 
  
-[[offtopic:Scarecrow]] has let it be known that he is the most virulent objectionist to the concept of the UCS in and of itself, a fact stemming from an argument about [[timelines:Decades of Darkness]] maps with [[offtopic:Thande]].  [[offtopic:FallenMorgan]] also thinks poorly of the UCS.+[[offtopic:Scarecrow]] has let it be known that he is the most virulent objectionist to the concept of the UCS in and of itself, a fact stemming from an argument about [[timelines:Decades of Darkness]] maps with [[offtopic:Thande]].  [[offtopic:xnm|FallenMorgan]] also thinks poorly of the UCS.
  
  
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 The Russian colour poll was a poll made by Thande about whether Russia should be green or golden yellow on UCS maps. The Russian colour poll was a poll made by Thande about whether Russia should be green or golden yellow on UCS maps.
  
-After much discussion in the UCS clarification conference the community was divided, and so Thande set up a poll to put the issue to a vote. This sparked a massive conflict between those who believe Russia should stay gold and those who wanted it green, calling themselves [[offtopic:Greensheviks]]. The Greensheviks eventually formed a loose organisation, drawing on Soviet rhetoric to promote the "green revolution." They were opposed by the conservative [[offtopic:Goldilocks]] faction.+After much discussion in the UCS clarification conference the community was divided, and so Thande set up a poll to put the issue to a vote. This sparked [[offtopic:the Colour Scheme War|an almost-massive conflict]] between those who believe Russia should stay gold and those who wanted it green, calling themselves [[offtopic:Greensheviks]]. The Greensheviks eventually formed a loose organisation, drawing on Soviet rhetoric to promote the "green revolution." They were opposed by the conservative [[offtopic:Goldilocks]] faction.
  
 But like any true fringe party there were schism within the Green movement. Some just wanted Russia to be green, others wanted more changes to the UCS. Some went so far as the say that UCS was shit and a new standard had to be implemented. They called this the ACS. But like any true fringe party there were schism within the Green movement. Some just wanted Russia to be green, others wanted more changes to the UCS. Some went so far as the say that UCS was shit and a new standard had to be implemented. They called this the ACS.
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 In compromise, [[offtopic:Thande]] followed up on this with a new version of the UCS, otherwise known as the TCS, which had both Gold and Green Russias, along with the traditional Red Soviet Union. This was later extended futher into the current RCS by [[offtopic:Alex Richards]] to take into account the plethora of new colours required by the medieval era basemaps. In compromise, [[offtopic:Thande]] followed up on this with a new version of the UCS, otherwise known as the TCS, which had both Gold and Green Russias, along with the traditional Red Soviet Union. This was later extended futher into the current RCS by [[offtopic:Alex Richards]] to take into account the plethora of new colours required by the medieval era basemaps.
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 +==== Supporters ====
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 +  * Originally most AH.commers who weren't [[colour it whatever you like|CIWYL]]s.
 +  * [[offtopic:Tallest Skil]] (even in 2013, long after the original's abandonment for newer versions)
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 ==== See Also ==== ==== See Also ====
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 **[[offtopic:AH.com Conflicts]]**  **[[offtopic:AH.com Conflicts]]** 
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