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256 Recruitment Limit

Description
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS 256

A mod to increase recruitment and squad limit.

Increases recruitable units from 30 to 256
Increases maximum members in each squad from 20 to 50
Increases maximum number of squads from 10 to 20

Instructions:

Simply subscribe to the mod and make sure that it's load order is below any other mod that also changes squad sizes.
If you find that this mod is not working, while other mods work fine, then I guarantee you that the issue is that you have another mod below this one that is overwriting the squad size. If you are uncertain of what other mod could be changing these variables, keep lowering this mod on the list until it works, or just simply place it below everything else.


NOTE:
This is a player recruitment mod ONLY. It does not effect npc squad spawns, numbers, or behaviors in any way.


Disclaimer: Performance!
There is a reason the game is defaulted to a maximum 30 units. Exceed maximum at your own risk.
Many have reported decreases in both fps and AI processing. This is a result of increased entities in your game world taking up more rendering and processing resources. This is normal, and there is nothing I nor this mod can do about that. There are a few things you can do to help reduce the lag, but ultimately it is up to you to find that sweet spot for yourself.

1. Import your game.
If the lag starts becoming too much, try importing your game. This will clear out a lot of the extra clutter of corpses, items, and orphaned/roaming squad units, freeing up more resources for your own squad. (NPC squads take priority with AI processing. The less of them there are, the better your Ai processing will be.)
Please note that this is a temporary remedy, and over time you may start seeing a decrease in performance again. Rinse and repeat as necessary if desired.

2. Reduce NPC squad number and npc squad size sliders.
This will reduce the amount of npc entities being processed, freeing up resources for your own squad. This is a longterm solution but may not be ideal for some people's gameplay, and may still not be enough depending on how many you recruit.

3. Reduce your own squad count.
If nothing else seems to be working, then chances are you've just simply recruited too many units. Reducing your own squad count may be the only way to aid decreases in performance.
Popular Discussions View All (6)
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Jul 29 @ 10:22am
cant get 256 squad members
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May 17 @ 9:31pm
How many people does it start to feel laggy for you guys ?
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Sep 21, 2024 @ 5:33am
Малый перевод удачи вам :) ;)
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565 Comments
Proximitive Sep 13 @ 9:28pm 
it wont cause you problems but the game will not be able to handle 2000 AI
Sköll Hati Sep 13 @ 3:14am 
Hello, good day. Could you make me a mod that increases the limits even more? I’d like to be able to have 2048 recruits, as well as 20 squads and 120 per squad. The problem is that I don’t know how to make mods. I have a powerful PC, so I don’t think it would cause me any problems. I’d really appreciate the mod. Thank you very much in advance
Aurelia  [author] Sep 3 @ 6:34pm 
This flag is just called at the time of dialogue attempting to recruit a character: "Recruited units >/= 30, if yes cannot recruit; if no, can recruit", changed to 256. Not only is that a core part of the base game itself (I did not add it or change it other than adjusting the allow/disallow threshold), That number itself has no other function within any other operations of the game and is never checked except for that specific circumstance.

The UI changes are the same.

Meaning that whether you have this mod installed or not, you are still running the exact same operations and game. (that is why it's so plug and play, because nothing is added or removed or overwritten outside of normal operations). It is also why this mod causing any sort of crash is extremely unorthadox. Because it doesn't actually do anything.

Play for a while without and see if you have any more crashes. If after a few days of playing it seems stable, try reinstalling the mod and trying again.
Captain Awful Sep 3 @ 5:07pm 
Thanks for your quick response. before reading this is dismissed followers down to 30, saved, uninstalled the mod and I haven't had a crash to desktop. It would be strange if this glitch was unique to me. LMK if i can provide further details.
I don't really get this stuff.
Aurelia  [author] Sep 3 @ 3:28pm 
Forgot to add, that this mod is 100% plug and play compliant due to what it does. You can install it, recruit beyond the limit, extend your squads, and then uninstall it and there will be no issues whatsoever. You can continue to play with 31+ units, you just won't be able to recruit more of them until you fall below 30 again, and you won't be able to move around units into your UI past the vanilla limits. Everything else, including your save game operates exactly as though the mod was never installed at all.
Aurelia  [author] Sep 3 @ 3:24pm 
I'm sorry to hear that, I don't really know what could be causing that.

This mod doesn't add nor change any assets, referencing, nor any engine operations, nor does it change anything about how the game handles.. well.. Anything at all. Not even units you've recruited.
The only thing it does is change a number from 30 to 256, along with numbers of items allowed within the UI, and that recruitment flag is only checked at the time of recruitment and then dismissed as it has no relavency at any other time in the game. Literally just a single yes/no checksum at that time and that's it. It has no live functionality.

If you uninstall this mod and it's still crashing, then it is 100% not related to this mod, as there is no save data information involved with this mod, as that flag is part of the core, not your save game.

If you do uninstall it and it stops crashing, then that is very strange, and may just have something to do with how your game is handling mods in general.
Captain Awful Sep 3 @ 2:30pm 
Getting constant crash to desktop after enabling this mod. Only 33 recruits. No lagging or other performance issues, just crashes after five mins or less. Got really bad after broken ones started following me but its just as bad without them after I imported the game. New ROG Strix laptop has always run everything fine.

Was just getting ready to invade Stack. Favourite play through. Total bummer.
Scosoap Aug 21 @ 4:52pm 
Sorry comments on the wrong mod my bad :P
Aurelia  [author] Aug 16 @ 5:47am 
@scosoap,
This mod doesn't control whether or not you can speak to people, their dialogue, or whether you can recruit people you couldn't normally recruit. The only thing it does is let you continue to recruit people beyond the normal cap that you could always already recruit by normal means.

Since you can't normally recruit people you capture, this sounds like an issue with another mod that may be letting you do that.
Scosoap Aug 16 @ 12:12am 
It seems that's some issue with female cannibal recruit. I try on capture some cannibal and that's no problem for recruit any male cannibal. They just don't have any slider like other race but for female one that's completely no dialogue option.