Tracers Thread - Red Alert 3 Paradox mod for C&C: Red Alert 3

In our neverending quest to inject more awesome into the game, we started looking into proper tracers for the various guns, coming out every couple of rounds. The time has come to choose colours, however. Here's my take, I welcome discussion!

Allies : Red. NATO standard rounds in the Cold War (and to this day) are red tracers. Thus, my suggestion. Not Soviet red, maybe a little pinkish? This would also apply to ARVN, Blue Chinese and Reservists.

Confederates : Yellowish. Fits the colours. Would also apply for International Inc.

Soviets : Traditional Eastern Bloc tracers are a sickly yellow-green. It would fit the olive colour scheme I think. This would also apply to the rest of the Communist Bloc.

Japan : Already blue, no need to change what ain't broke!

China : Ray guns don't need tracers.

Order : Orange or just smokey trails.

Syndicate : Steel grey.

What about Protectorate? Or would they even use tracers?

I am not sure. Probably module dependant.

It's an old C&C thingy to only have "real" tracers for elite units :/

I really don't see the point, it's not a realism mod right?

what are tracers anyway?

The bullets that guns shoot out(like a Conscript or a Tengu, PKs do NOT have tracers).

that make them look like small lines? i get it. hmm.

GriffinZ has a point tough. red should be reserved for heroic, it's been iconic that you can identify heroic units by red tracers. on other colors, i would suggest going wild. it would make good fireworks

With the nature of heroic upgrades, the colour of tracers matter a lot less. I was thinking it'd be better to use "more" and "bigger" as heroic indicators, particularly in cases where it would be confusing (we have weapons whose fire modes are differenciated by colour) or silly looking (bright red fire for heroic flamethrowers for example)

Alrighty then more work for me! My inputs: white tracers for Allies and red on heroic, but not red heroics on things that it would look silly on.