Too many Cities!!?!

[Slbot911]

Hey Guys, First off Im new here and I would like to say that this is a great site. Whoever the owner is has done a great job on it. This is my first post but I have been playing Civ 3 since it came out. Now onto my questions. Like I said before I have been playing Civ 3 for a while now. But not since recently have I messed around with the Edit feature so I can make my custom games. I like making the maps as big as they let you and with 16 nations. But I've been running into a problem; too many cities! Does the game have a limit of the number of cites it allows? If so is that limit only for you or everyone in that world and what is the limit? Also is there a way to fix this or any suggestions on what I can do to not have this problem and would just decreasing the nation count fix this?

 

[viper275]

There is a maximum amount of cities for all nations combined. I forget what it is, but it's high up, at least somewhere in mid hundreds I think. Most city lists are probably about 30 cities, so these civs would need something like New Constantinople 10 to get to a limit like that. So it may be hard to get a Conquest victory on this and it may take hours to manage your cities even for one turn late in the game, but I don't think it will reach the limit.

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[Smellincoffee]

I believe the maximum city limit is 512.

 

[punkbass2000]

There cannot be, IIRC, more than 255 cities on the map altogether. Reducing the number of civs may make this happen a little later in the game, but overall won't really solve the problem. A good solution to this problem that I've heard is to reduce the types of terrain that cities can be built on. Perhaps only grassland, plains and floodplains.

EDIT: Crossposted with smellincoffee, and he's probably got the right number.

 

[Ginger_Ale]

Yep, the max limit is 512...after that, to build more cities, you need to raze/abandon other ones. Sorry, this is a hard coded limit - it can't be changed. (What some people have done is made it so you can't found cities on jungle, tundra, and desert - this makes colonies more important and allows you to not run in to the city limit (or not run into it as quick)).

 

[rbis4rbb]

It's 512 cities.

 

[Despair888]

I believe we have established this, yes, yes.

 

[Dark Russell]

I made deserts and tundra non-settleable and it solved my problems.

 

[ybbor]

they did this becuase the game gets exponentially slower when it has to process 513 cities

 

[Willem]

Try a map size of 256 X 256 with no cities allowed on Desert or Tundra. That's just about right for the maximum limit, which is 512 BTW. With that size, you only have a few small areas that don't get developed, and those probably could be if you eliminated some of the AI's cities in crappy locations.