Maximum players?

Ruatha · #1 February 3rd, 2003, 02:20 AM

I guess I know the answer to this question but I need it confimed.

The max number of players is 20, right.
If we are 20 human players and I set large numbers of neutral empires. Will there be more than 20 races in the game?

Grandpa Kim · #2 February 2nd, 2003, 06:32 PM

I've never tried it, but I suspect you will get only the 20 human players. No AI's at all.

capnq · #3 February 2nd, 2003, 10:41 PM

Yes, if you set 20 human players, there will be no neutrals.

20 empires is a hard limit.

Makinus · #4 March 9th, 2004, 01:40 PM

Would be possible(maybe in a next patch), to increase the limit of players? I don't know a lot about programming, but would it be a hard thing to change? I ask this because i have a top-end machine and would like to have lot more empires in a game (i already increased the number of systems), and would not have any problem with the speed of turn processing....

Any ideas of how to change the number of empires without needing to do hardcode changes?

geoschmo · #5 March 10th, 2004, 02:27 AM

You can't change the max limit of empires without changing the code. It would require a patch. But there probably won't be another patch for SE4.

Hopefully SE5 will allow for more players in a game.

Ragnarok · #6 March 9th, 2004, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by geoschmo:

Hopefully SE5 will allow for more players in a game.

Could you imagine if this was the case? SEV on PBW with 30 or more empires! We would definately need to re-write the PBW code to handle larger game files and so forth.