Hardcoded limits

[coldfusion21]

I'm not sure how it could be possible, but in the sub-mod I'm making of RS2 I have as many as 38 units (non-agents) recruitable in a city, and I get no CTDs from it.

What i just found out now is that the limit is 32/building . I have 38 units from 2 barracks in EB and it works just fine, but if i move then all to main barrack it crashes.

[Kylan271]

So the recruitment limit is 32 per building...ok will have to keep an eye out for this. Hmm,I thought I had over this with my cloned wardogs....have to test again????

[Conqistador]

This model limit of polys applies only to campaign map models or it does work for battle models? If not, then what is the limit of battle models?

[Seth Krn3ll]

Not sure if anyone will need this, but well, I got it so here it is.

Maximum number of entries the dbb of RTW can handle.

Descr_Building_battle.txt (and includes)
Maximum number of entries for .dbb: max 1000. Effects for extras errorless CTD on startup.
(the number may not be absolutely precise though: too many commented entries to be totally sure - anyway its not far from that)

[Squid]

Per .dbb file or over all .dbb files?

[Seth Krn3ll]

Per .dbb file or over all .dbb files?

Over all.

I had sometimes CTDs also on single dbb files, but was pretty weird, because they had less entries then other .dbb files.
Guess the reason there was not the number of entries.

Anyway the maximum overall number shall be some around 1k. I reached it and from a month or so anytime I want to to add new dbb entries I have to remove unused vanilla ones - which is pretty tricky most times.

[Aradan]

Setting a region's base farming level to -1 in descr_regions causes a freeze when trying to open the settlement or settlement details scroll. Only happens with this particular value. Thanks to Bardo for confirming it.

[Wraith.]

I hope this is a right thread to ask. It is actually not a paramount problem but there are - in Rome Total War - some roman names/surnames making characters sound ... let us say, nerdy, to me - like Amulius Popillius or Lentulus Lollius etc. So, I have tried to change (add a few new entries and delete few others) in descr_names and descr_names_lookup and - it goes without saying - adjusting descr.strat in the matter of these removed name entries. As result I got game crashes. Are there names codes anywhere else except descr_names, descr_names lookup and descr_strat? Are there names hardcoded?

[One-Eye]

there is also file "names.txt" in data/text where you need do changes.
also be sure you have no one error and also empty place as you see in attachments behind name Amulius.

[Spike]

there is no limit in money-related issue I think, but ridiculous pricing is generally not good

min limit of soldier is 6 on normal (and on EDU)

[Aradan]

Max cost is 65535.

[CanOmer]

min limit of soldier is 6 on normal

There are 6 elephant and 6 elephant rider in one unit. If I reduce the elephants to 3 then what happens? And, will the game work properly?

[Spike]

There are 6 elephant and 6 elephant rider in one unit. If I reduce the elephants to 3 then what happens? And, will the game work properly?

as long as the "real men" aka the riders is still 6, the game will still work properly, in fact, you can make 1 elephant unit in normal, as long as the elephant has 6 riders on top of it

[Ero]

How about province/birth ratio? I mean family members limit in R:TW and M2:TW.

[Bouncebag]

I think the number of family births is a hard coded % chance and linked to number of provinces held along with character VnVs. so can be influenced through traits.

[StefanS]

Greetings! Anyone still here? I need someone to help me with this: forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?42905-Hard-Coded-Limits , especially about overall unit limits. So, i would like to set limit on unit recruit for more realistic game (for me), and decisive battles, example would be: 4 roman factions= 28 units of hastati limit, and 1 roman faction 7 units of hastati in total. Is this possible? Thank you all!

[Squid]

Not possible. There's a maximum of 20 units per army, but there's no way to limit the makeup of those 20 units.

[StefanS]

Not per army, per game and per faction. In post I linked to is called overall unit number and overall unit number per faction. Anyway, it is said that 500 of each unit in game is recruitable, after that game CTD. My question is can I set something like unit cap on Napoleon total war for elite units, and for example make each Roman faction can recruit only 7 units of hastati, so that is 28 units of hastati in game. Overall unit number 28, and overall unit number per faction 7. I didn't ask for big armies or for more units in stack. Thanks!

[Squid]

Still not possible, there's no way to limit the number of a particular unit that can recruited in RTW. It might be possible in M2TW with some serious scripting.

[StefanS]

Thanks for the answer anyway.