Variety is the spice of life

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Originally Posted by DRG

The unit and formation limit can be increase quite easily but it totally screws up every existing scenario and save game and tends to bump into other game limits as well. I have a perfectly functional copy of an exe which allows 500 formations per side. This would allow *potentially* 2000 units per side


Andy and I thoroughly tested this late last fall and the bottom line is ( harsh as this is going to sound.....)we are not going to trash everything we have so a very small ( but vocal ) minority of players can fight what would amount to divisional level games and neither would any of the people who keep asking for this if they were the ones faced with the effort of rebuilding the game to accommodate what amounts to less than 1% of the players

As well, there is NO way we could allow a campaign to be played because there ARE hard coded limits to the number of casualties reported that one of these monsters would produce in no time. The save games are HUGE once there is a lot of combat recorded for playback and there are limits to that which has knock off affects to other areas.

Years ago we set up the limits on a firm belief that what we have now is more than enough to satisfy 99% of the players knowing full well it's impossible to satisfy 100%

However, that said I will show you want 1500 attacker units looks like zoomed all the way out and the defending force they would face in an advance/delay



Don

I have to admit I didn't consider the map size in this. Obviously any increase to the amount of units, similar to the above, would require an increase of the map or else it would have many other problems (gameplay ones).
It would be super cool if it was (easily) changed to have both increase of units and map sizes and not break everything else apart. From your sayings though, the task is just not worth the trouble for you and I completely understand that. As you said very few people would actualy play with such settings.

Tell you what, if you ever decide to make a sequel/remake, consider increasing the limits from the get go.

For now, I wouldn't mind seeing an extra difficulty setting (as you mentioned) to further reduce the amount of reinforcements in campaigns, in some future patch

Thanks for answering this.