Max Number Of Units

[Lingchih]

Yes, it was about 65000 units that broke it. It would be hard to replicate that in anything short of a mega-game though.

[JimMorrison]

Not so Ling, all it takes is a LA game on a LARGE map with Ermor and/or R'lyeh in it.

No one else is realistically hitting that limit, but they'll do it every time if you hit End Turn enough times.

[Edi]

The current upper limit is not known, but there is a known lower limit of 136k units that can be on the map at once without crashing the game and that has been there for at least three or four patches now.

[Cor2]

I have an SP game that has reached that limit. sucks

[Gandalf Parker]

Yes I hit a limit on one of my solo-play games also.
I havent pinpointed which limit it was in order to report it.

There are many confusing limits in the game. Raising one tends to bump our heads on another. And its not always clear why that limit would have anything to do with the other one.

[Loren]

Lingchih said:
Yes, it was about 65000 units that broke it. It would be hard to replicate that in anything short of a mega-game though.

I was playing around in SP and just hit it. Admittedly I have an army of summons that could smash the world but I'm not even #1 in any graph except research.

I'm playing Hinnom but there aren't any Hinnom units left other than the Lords of Civilization. I had been doing some studying of how the game worked and didn't pay too much attention to the forced building up. I just piled the ones that aren't summoners themselves (I'm running a nearly pure blood economy at this point, I have hundreds of vampire lords holding my clams and summoning more vampires.) on the chokepoints and ignored the AI.

Once my tests were over I decided to see if I could take the world with a battle line that simply marched across it. Oops, I can't--I can't make any more units. My abomination factory is turning out zero instead of about 40/turn.

[Gandalf Parker]

When the number of provinces was increased to 1500 we hit lots of caps.
Granted, not too many people seem to play that except me.

[Saulot]

Heh. 150 provinces is enough for me.

Out of curiosity Gandalf, how long does it take you to play through a game like that, and how far along in terms of victory do you quit?

[Gandalf Parker]

Ive actually played some longer than a year.

But usually it gets too much for me when I have a third of the map. But I like playing games with some real wilderness and growth between the nations.

[nordlys]

I played LA Ermor in SP on largest vanilla map, and hit the limit a dozen of turns ago. Had to scrap a few thousands of skeletons by sending armies into battles with leaders set to retreat.

I *WISH* there would be a simpler way to disband units.