Unit Limit

winterwatchers

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I recently started playing again after years of no action. I got to a point where the game tells me that no more units can be build. I downloaded the patches and a no limit utility, but it only allows for more gold and cities. Is there a file that can get me more units.

btw, civ2 rocks. The only thing I wish is for the developers to release the game again with much better ai, and better negotiation setup while making everything else the same.
 
I've never actually hit the unit limit in any civ2 game that I've played, nor the city limit in any non-scenario game. If there is a patch for the maximum units, I've never heard of it, but I haven't heard of the patch allowing more cities that you seem to have, so my word isn't particularly useful in this area.

I highly doubt that any slightly modified version of civ 2 will ever be released, as there is not likely to be a very large market for it, but it would be very nice if they did.
 
I was playing the WW2 scenerio that came with the game. I was playing the neutrals on deity. They are my favorite faction to play because anybody else is just too easy. I played up to around 1973 when I hit the limit. I didn't build many units, since I just finish the process of rapid industrialization, economic supremecy, and technological greatnest all while fending off the russians and axis from crushing me. The allies abandoned me pretty early in the game so I was relying on the other minor powers to survive. Most of the units in the game are A.I.s. I checked by cheating to reveal the map and I see swarms of units everywhere. If I can't build more units I can't really declare war on the allies, since right now each of my cities are defended by one unit or just freights.
 
I just added up all the units in the game and it came out to 2048, which is 2 to the 11th power. Is this the upper limit?
 
Probably; I think I've seen that number before as the upper limit of units. Each unit must have a number for the computer to keep track of it, and to keep track of its various traits. Evidently, 11 digits was decided upon for the number of the unit. There are others here who know much more about programming than I do, and who can give more solid answers. Most of this is speculation based on a few things I've read over the years.
 
2048 is the number I've run into as well. It is sometimes a little difficult to determine as my copy has 256 rolling over to displayed zero (and 512, 768 and 1024).
 
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