Help! Using the world builder, is there a city limit?

[NULLARC-X]

I posted this on the 2k forums but nobody seems to know...

Is there a limit on how many cities can exist in a game? I'm in the map editor and have created a highly detailed map of WWI era europe and some of north africa and the middle east with realistically placed resources. I then added civs to the map, England, France Germany etc... as well as some others from mods like the netherlands, denmark, spain, etc. and placed the cities approx. where they should be. I loaded up the game to check my work and the game freezes on the loading screen. I thought it was an issue with one of the mods, but no, I can load regular custom games no problem with them. I tried removing some of the civs, the game still crashed. Tried removing some more so that the number of total cities was less then 60 or so, and the game loaded no problem. What the heck?

I know for a fact that I have played games where the total number of cities was a lot higher then 60...what is the problem?

 

[The_J]

There has been numerous bug reports about that the game will crash when more than 69 cities are connected to the trade network. For some people it crashes persistently earlier, but still around that (63-64 cities).
The whole thing is rather bad programming than a real bug, but we have to live with it until they fix it.

 

[NULLARC-X]

Hmm... none of the civs on my map have 60 cities, the most any one civ has is like 14 or so, and I haven't added in any roads or railroads yet. Could that still be it? Just bad programming or whatever, nothing to do but throw ones hands up, sit back and wait for a patch?