How many Civs?

[Locutus]

The Gigantic option has clearly won the map size poll, so the next question is: how many civs do we want to play with?

Note that I'm asking about the total number of civs. This includes ourselves but not the Barbians. So if you vote 6, the game will consist of: ourselves, 5 AI civs and 1 Barbarian player.

(For the sake of this poll, assume we're playing an SP game, no PBEM or Despotism vs Democracy or whatever)

[Azrael]

32

[Frozzy]

No, not 32... anyone who has played 32 will know it is a HUGE strain on computer resources.

32 is way to many.

16 is a nice round number. I go with that.

[Martin Gühmann]

I agree with frozzy 16 is a nice number. That is also the number I play usually on.

-Martin

[Quickbeam3]

how can you get so many civs ill need to be told what file to alter.

[lunger75]

8 is plenty, and I don't wanna have to
alter any files.

[Martin Gühmann]

Only the president has to alter the userprofile.txt in your ..\ctp_program\ctp\ folder before he creates the game. In the first line of that file you find the entry NumPlayers the line behind are the number of players in the next created game that also includes the Barbarians. Once the game is created the value there doesn't matter anymore. So lunger75 if you aren't our first president you have to alter no file.

-Martin

[shaved_ape]

anywhere between 8 and 24 is good