Exceeding the 512 City Limit

[jakinca2004]

I'm playing Conquests and I have a very good earth map I like but max out at 512 cities with the map a little over half full. Is there a way yet to increase the maximum number of cities?

 

[Lonkut]

Theres a limit? Wow you must have a fast comp to have all those cities on one map. But my guess is that it must be hard-coded so you can't. But I may be wrong.

 

[Turner]

Yes, it's hard coded. You can't change it.

 

[Chieftess]

Just do this. Have a settler ready to settle, and go raze an AI city. That'll do the trick (atleast 1 city at a time). That's what I'm doing in my earth-map game.

 

[Jaybe]

Steps to avoid running into the 512 City Limit:
Change the rules (this involves ignoring the Hall of Fame because HoF only applies to stock rules).
Prohibit the building of cities in the following Terrains (Terrain tab in the editor): Jungle, Tundra & Desert (optionally, forest also).
If you prohibit planting of forests on tundra then you will not be able to use this exploit over the AI. The AI won't do it just to build a city.

 

[Licentia]

I'm playing Conquests and I have a very good earth map I like but max out at 512 cities with the map a little over half full. Is there a way yet to increase the maximum number of cities?

I couldn't imagine trying to manage 512 cities...

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Remember some of those cities are AI cities as well...

Also, turning off the option of being able to settle tundra, jungle and desert like Jaybe said is a good idea - it also makes colonies more useful and lets you build cities in more realistic places, at least for an Earth map.

I've never hit the limit myself though...never play wicked huge maps.

 

[Shadow Phoenix]

plz post your comp specs
...and send me the map $ save
please? I am bored of HL2Demo

 

[jakinca2004]

thanks for the advice. I think I'll limit cities off torest, tundra, etc. The map I got was off of El Mency I believe. It's about 362x362 or something like that. Let me know if you want a copy.

 

[Willem]

I couldn't imagine trying to manage 512 cities...

That's 512 cities total for all civs, not just his.

 

[Willem]

thanks for the advice. I think I'll limit cities off torest, tundra, etc. The map I got was off of El Mency I believe. It's about 362x362 or something like that. Let me know if you want a copy.

That size map is useless because of the limit. Try 256 X 256, with no cities allowed on Desert or Tundra. I find that to be just about right. Not allowing cities on Jungle isn't fair the AI since it won't have the sense to clear it in order to build. That will give the human a huge advantage.

You can also prevent planting Forests on Tundra by going into the Terrain section of the editor and changing the Worker job from Planting Forest to Clearing Forest. For some reason that prevents me from planting them as well.