City limit

[Hater_cz]

Can you build more than 10 cities? The city limit is extremely restrictive.

[Astasia]

Probably, I know you can get up to like 7 by the iron age, but keep in mind cities get pretty huge and they are a lot more complex than in other games. Managing one city in this is probably like managing 4 or 5 in Civ.

[Sanosuke]

Originally posted by Hater_cz:

Can you build more than 10 cities? The city limit is extremely restrictive.

They expand quite fast, don't think about this game as a "civ clone" where spamming cities is a strat, it doesn't really work like that.

In other words, I haven't yet come to a point where I was thinking "Oh man, I REALLY need two/one/three more cities to get X plot"

[Stealknight]

You can have 8 with Empire government i believe. If you build a palace thats +1 and there are wonders that give you +1. Really Cities are more like States in this game

[Hater_cz]

After several hours of playing, a few cities are not enough for me. I've optimized production. I'm good at micro-managing, and the game is enjoyable for me in this regard... but 8-10 cities are too few for me. I understand this limitation; there are players whose heads would explode from managing so many cities, but I would like to see an option to set the maximum number of cities.

[Sanosuke]

Originally posted by Hater_cz:

After several hours of playing, a few cities are not enough for me. I've optimized production. I'm good at micro-managing, and the game is enjoyable for me in this regard... but 8-10 cities are too few for me. I understand this limitation; there are players whose heads would explode from managing so many cities, but I would like to see an option to set the maximum number of cities.

Yeah, I get what you mean, just drop your suggestion about putting a max cities slider or something in the dev's thread, they seem to be receptive about suggestions.

[Tandis]

If you want to mod the number, you can change the text file, Governments.zdata and ther's a line that says .uiProvinceCap = N were N is a number. You can make that any number you want.

[Sethos]

Scale the city limit with the map size?

[GenKnight]

Still on my first play through and I've got 11 without penalties.

Didn't change governments but kept the one with highest city allowance.

Too many but I want to play this to the end.

Should make the next game a lot easier ...

I guess I still have the Civ mentality.

Plus I like war.

[jer]

I had 17 on my first win. When you wage war on a city, just keep it.

[GenKnight]

So you managed satisfaction ok? No ill effects?

[SmlehliW]

here somebody have 13: (5x palace)
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3341266690

[Rusty Booper]

you can go above the limit aswell

[Rusty Booper]

Originally posted by Sethos:

Scale the city limit with the map size?

This

[zazinc93]

Originally posted by Tandis:

If you want to mod the number, you can change the text file, Governments.zdata and ther's a line that says .uiProvinceCap = N were N is a number. You can make that any number you want.

Where can this file be found, I did a search for it and came up blank?

[Townsendvol]

Originally posted by Tandis:

If you want to mod the number, you can change the text file, Governments.zdata and ther's a line that says .uiProvinceCap = N were N is a number. You can make that any number you want.

Can you make this a game setting in the future please? I mean many people are not comfortable modifying their files.

Personally not sure if I do or don’t want more cities just seems like more settings at the beginning help people get closer to the type of game they want. Thanks.