[Mobhack]

That would be yet another complete fundamental change to all existing game data, Scenarios, save games etc and ongoing games and campaigns, and all user campaigns now alles kaput, requiring a massive data massage exercise. So effectively a new game.

And you may as well then just change the variable to a byte (your original query) as simpler than than having to figure out what knock-on effects your new maximum number would now make to AI pathing, random V-hex placement etc