What is the multiplayer population limit?

[Ryan]

We started a 4-player Tropico 5 game. Two players lost, so now there are two players left. We are in the Cold War era and each have ~510 population. Our economies are stagnating because we can't seem to get new citizens to our cities. Our low-level jobs are getting more and more vacant. We have even tried Importing Workers, but it doesn't seem to do much good. I'm thinking we have reached a limit of some kind.

Could it be there is a 2000 pop limit with 500 people capped to each player since we started a 4-player game? We did go into the Game Settings and increase the population to the max, but it is not clear if that is for Single-Player only.

Can anyone please provide any advice or help? Thanks!

[Ryan]

Is the multiplayer hard capped at 2000? Or can you play with a 10,000 pop limit mutiplayer?

[Malaficus Shaikan]

I havent tryed it myself but you can change the population limet in options.
Tho i believe the pop limet is set at the start of the match.
I believe that the pop of those two players that lost arent redistributed.
So you are stuck with a 500 pop limet for the remainder of that match.

[Cybershadow 2030]

I have played a multiplayer match that supports the theory that multiplayer is hard-coded at 2000 pop. It was me and a friend, 2 players. We reached world wars and quickly reached the cap at 1000 per player. In my case my pop cap in my option is set to 3000, in my friends case 2000. So i don't know if that will help or if me and my friend both need to set our pop caps to 3000 for it to work. I have the nagging suspicion that the hard-code means we will probably have to alter a text file of some kind.

[magnum2016]

The Max Population in Multiplayer is based on the the player that has the lowest population setting meaning if someone has a population max of 2,000 and you have 4 players in a multiplayer round the max population per player will be 500.

If everyone in that multiplayer round has their population set to 10,000 then each player can have 2,500 people if you are in a 4 player round :)

I hope i was some help.

[Cybershadow 2030]

absolutely thnx

[magnum2016]

Of course :)

[Ryan]

Thank you very much! This is what we were hoping for. Unfortunately we haven't taken the time to play again, but hopefully we'll get to soon and make sure the pop limit on all computers is set to max.

[magnum2016]

Anytime I am glad to of helped :)

I sent over some friend requests if you guys are ever interested in some multiplayer

[James009]

Can anyone confirm this? Also, is there a mod or any way to edit the population cap for multiplayer sessions to make it higher?

[pissfartshitchincillaWOUBZY]

@James008 Apparently mods were blocked from being on mutiplayer by the devs a while back due to cheating and an hour of reading through old forum posts hasn't provided any solutions.

The devs seem to be standing by the idea that it'll segment the playerbase if they were to do so which is ridiculous.

Very annoying to say the least and stupid on their half.