Unit limit? What is that?

[Senf]

I never encountered that before, can I raise it?

[The_Pastmaster]

That's a new one. o_O Unless they put in a unit limit engine wise in which case you have a LOOOT of units.

[Senf]

I can only have 31 units, otherwise the production of all my cities gets a % penality.

It raises slowly apparently. Maybe with population.

[Azunai]

actually that's not new. it's been in civ 5 since release and probably also in BE (after all, it's built on the same engine).

usually you won't notice that there's a support limit, but if you have a large military and a small civ, it can show up.

i think i saw the formula somewhere, but i don't remember the specifics. i think the main factor was population. you simply need more people to support more units without the penalty.

[SamBC]

Number of cities is the determining factor, I believe.

[Senf]

Originally posted by SamBC:

Number of cities is the determining factor, I believe.

Can't be, it rises without new cities.

[MezzoMax]

It's both, cities and population. Look at the military tab. You can get there by pressing the + left of the "artifacts" button. There on the left you will find an overview how unit limit is calculated. The % is pretty servere. I didn't noticed that at first and saw an ! mark next to the political capital ressource. If you go over your limit every unit over it will give you a 10% production mali !!!

[Suisight]

Well, try to play the Germans in Civ5 and build some serious Furor Teutonicus early, that's when you can notice it. But yes, the limit is quite generous, hard to encounter in a "normal" game, guess I never did in BE until now.

[MezzoMax]

This also never happened to me in CIV5. I think the big difference is the orbital layer. I had PAEN satellites over all my cities and these also count towards the unit limit. I don't reduce the amount of ground units I have because of the satellites. So if you have as many units as you would have in CIV5 and then also add in some orbital units you suddenly have much more. Having 3 fighters in every city also doesn't help. :-)

[la_nague]

you can build more, its not really a LIMIT limit

[PhailRaptor]

They encontered it in one of the live stream Let's Play! vids on the official Youtube Channel. The big thing that's getting people to encounter it now is the ability to Leash the Aliens, resulting in easy availability of low maintanence "meat shield" units that cost effectively zero production.

[Michael]

Originally posted by Senf:

I never encountered that before, can I raise it?

I've encountered it before in both Civ 5 and BE. The supply limit is determined by number of cities, population, and game difficulty.

[MezzoMax]

Originally posted by la_nague:

you can build more, its not really a LIMIT limit

Yeah it's more of a soft limit because of the % penalty to production. I wonder if this will result in 0 production if you are 10+ units above your limit.

[Jagothegamer]

This has happened to me before too. You can go over it but I belive it will start producing unhealth.