Cap on number of cities

[Iceco]

A civilization has a list of 40ish city names, what happens afterwards? Are they unable to settle more cities?
I tried searching the forum, but nothing turned up, and I simply don't know the commands for the Live Tuner (I figure creating 50 settlers in a test game would give the answer.)

The reason I want to know is to see what the factors are that limit city-states from settling more cities.

 

[Sonereal]

City-states just don't build settlers. It's possible to build more cities than the number of names available. I'm not sure what happens when you do that though.

 

[Gazebo]

City-states just don't build settlers. It's possible to build more cities than the number of names available. I'm not sure what happens when you do that though.

I think they are simply banned from making settlers. look in the civilizations folder- one of those .xml has a list of unit bans (ie. barbarians can't make workers, city-states can't make settlers, et. al.)

I think its that simple.

 

[Decimatus]

The game starts pulling names from other civs.

Also, if you go into the City screen, there is a very small "Edit" text under the City name. You can change your cities to be whatever you want them to be.

 

[Sonereal]

I think they are simply banned from making settlers. look in the civilizations folder- one of those .xml has a list of unit bans (ie. barbarians can't make workers, city-states can't make settlers, et. al.)

I think its that simple.

Have you played with the idea of city-states being able to build settlers?

 

[Pouakai]

Opera's city-states do.

If it's the same as cIV, the game will start using city names from civilizations not present in your current game.

 

[Gazebo]

Opera's city-states do.

If it's the same as cIV, the game will start using city names from civilizations not present in your current game.

Well its probably because he didn't tell the game not to (or he allowed it via XML).

 

[Iceco]

I think he/she just set the 'expansion' flavor to a value other than 0.

That was actually what got me thinking what the things were that kept the CS from using those settlers.