Mod for crowded maps? [found]

[downy]

One of my favorite things to do in past games was mod the start conditions so that you can have twice as many leaders as allowed by default. It makes the AI more aggressive. I poked around in the text-editable files, though, and didn't see simple configuration settings like in VI. Anybody find how to do this?

I found it!

It actually is very similar to VI.

D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Sid Meier's Civilization VII\Base\modules\base-standard\data\maps.xml

</Continents>
    <Maps>
        <Row MapSizeType="MAPSIZE_TINY" Name="LOC_MAPSIZE_TINY_NAME" Description="LOC_MAPSIZE_TINY_DESCRIPTION" DefaultPlayers="6" PlayersLandmass1="3" PlayersLandmass2="3" GridWidth="60" GridHeight="38" NumNaturalWonders="3" OceanWidth="4" LakeSizeCutoff="6" LakeGenerationFrequency="25" Continents="2" StartSectorRows="3" StartSectorCols="2"/>
        <Row MapSizeType="MAPSIZE_SMALL" Name="LOC_MAPSIZE_SMALL_NAME" Description="LOC_MAPSIZE_SMALL_DESCRIPTION" DefaultPlayers="8" PlayersLandmass1="4" PlayersLandmass2="4" GridWidth="74" GridHeight="46" NumNaturalWonders="4" OceanWidth="4" LakeSizeCutoff="8" LakeGenerationFrequency="25" Continents="4" StartSectorRows="3" StartSectorCols="3"/>
        <Row MapSizeType="MAPSIZE_STANDARD" Name="LOC_MAPSIZE_STANDARD_NAME" Description="LOC_MAPSIZE_STANDARD_DESCRIPTION" DefaultPlayers="10" PlayersLandmass1="5" PlayersLandmass2="5" GridWidth="84" GridHeight="54" NumNaturalWonders="5" OceanWidth="4" LakeSizeCutoff="8" LakeGenerationFrequency="25" Continents="4" StartSectorRows="4" StartSectorCols="3"/>
        <Row MapSizeType="MAPSIZE_LARGE" Name="LOC_MAPSIZE_LARGE_NAME" Description="LOC_MAPSIZE_LARGE_DESCRIPTION" DefaultPlayers="12" PlayersLandmass1="6" PlayersLandmass2="6" GridWidth="96" GridHeight="60" NumNaturalWonders="6" OceanWidth="8" LakeSizeCutoff="10" LakeGenerationFrequency="25" Continents="6" StartSectorRows="4" StartSectorCols="3"/>
        <Row MapSizeType="MAPSIZE_HUGE" Name="LOC_MAPSIZE_HUGE_NAME" Description="LOC_MAPSIZE_HUGE_DESCRIPTION" DefaultPlayers="14" PlayersLandmass1="7" PlayersLandmass2="7" GridWidth="106" GridHeight="66" NumNaturalWonders="7" OceanWidth="8" LakeSizeCutoff="10" LakeGenerationFrequency="25" Continents="6" StartSectorRows="4" StartSectorCols="3"/>
    </Maps>
</Database>

 

[downy]

That's the config file, but changing that alone did not change my in-game settings.

Is there an additional step that's the same for all config file mods, which I can just do and be done?