Number of cities limit:

[rajofpsg]

Hi there guys, i'm new here, and want to first off just say that i am glad to find this place, as i have been playing civ for years (since the original came out on the amiga lol).

what i want to know if there is a way to alter the limit of allowable cities in a game?

I am using civ2: TOT, which is awesome with the ability to use 4 maps at the same time (underworld/seaworld/groundlevel/skyworld simultaenously yahoo!!) on top of this abiluty to use 4 maps, i have laos downloaded and patched in the "no limits.zip" file that lets me go past 320mil people and have way bigger map size and more cash and i think more units too (TOT allows alot more units then civ2 from what i see, Goblins civ in TOT once had like 570+ units WOW! i had fun fighting them in a very long month long battle of attrition).

now i am stuck with a huge map (x4 maps) that i have been playing for a week and only scratched the surface of meeting the Elves (fantasy game obviously), and guess what? i got like 14 cities (1 main HOME ISLAND whichj i love playing with, and a few colinies on 3 nearer contints), the game tells me i cannot build more cities.

so the question: is there a patch or a way to alter the files to let me go past the 255/256/254 or whatever amount of cities that civ2 is limited to?

thnxs in advance, and, if anyone has any TOT specific scenarios i'd love to try them out.

 

[Lefty Scaevola]

The person who made the "no limits" patches determined that the 255 city limit was imbbedded in two many place to try to alter.

 

[rajofpsg]

darn, maybe i will e-mail the guy and talk to him more, was hoping there was maybe some other patch that could alter it though.

 

[Caesar19]

Just wanted to say welcome to the team and hi!

 

[Az]

250 cities is ALOT for SP games....

I would find it boring having to manage all these!

But for Diplo games it particullarly interesting as we could play the extra large maps!

BTW wlecome rajofpsg!

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[rajofpsg]

hehe thnxs guys for the kind welcomes

Well for me, with the huge maps i got now, more then 250 cities would be great, could create some real big empires and have some massive wars. One of the things about Civ i like is that it could take a weeks or months to complate a game for me.

Maybe in civ3 it will be able to alter the amount of maximum cities allowable, which might be better since civ3 seems to be a much more immersive game then what we have now even.

 

[Ren]

I doubt that a game would have a feature to alter the number of city builds avail. It would be set at a max and a patch would be needed to change this...I could be wrong, of course..

 

[Dell19]

Originally posted by Az
250 cities is ALOT for SP games....

I would find it boring having to manage all these!

I had around 215 cities in my last game and it took along time to take each turn...Would be much quicker if I could have trusted my advisors to do their jobs It wasn't that bad you just have to be patient nand not pay too much attention to each city.

 

[Ren]

*L* I spent more time looking at the AI move around my stuffthen I did doin my own thing, although the Ai's turns are becoming suspiciously shorter since I reduced their sizes... ......*L* they don't have much life left, I could wipe them but I like building up my cities for the moment