Can you ever have enough? Anyway, using a large map mod, 362X326 and 200 turns into the game, when trying to build a new city, get the error mss too many cities. Now, I'm assuming this is a total city amount for the entire map? Is there anyway to increase this limit? The map I am using was from the map page, so does it make sense to have a big map if you cannot use it all? Any help would be great as spent about 14hr setting up this mod.

I don't know about increasing the Limit but you can try and get the AI to found less cities in stupid areas by stopping them building cities in Desert, Tundra or mountains...

Well, well, look who wondered in our part of the woods ;) Hi, kai!

mbrady, how many cities are there on the map?

Lots. My aim was to lower corrupption (95) increase game lenghth to 1000 turn and up tech expense considerable, (tech rate 999 & each tech increase X1.85, which is 1000/540) I thnink there would have to be about 500, and I just read in another part of the forum that there is a hard coded limit of 512 cities, but I swear I read another post somwhere that you could double this somehow? Anyway, not as a winge really by how would you ever use a really large map. The idea about limiting the ai to where it can build does sound interseting as you know how it loves that tundra. Maybe another idea would be to limit the civ a bit (I,m using 31 with correct starting positions) but this would just fallstall the problem rather then fix it. Oh, and thanks for the speedy repley!!

Unfortunately there is no way to get around the city limit. You will have to limit the number of cities by either map size or limiting the terrain that can be settled (new city founded). The number of civilizations can possibly cause the max number of cities to be reached quicker but it is not definitive as the AI is not very good at building and maintaining huge empires.

To put it bluntly: There is a hard-coded limit of 512 cities on the map at any one time, and no way around it.
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