Picking Apart Part 5

[One_Dead_Villy]

how will the game handle things in multiplayer to make sure people dont sort of hack these files to give themselves unfair advantages?

[MarkG]

does that mean there is an option for NO population limit?

in the beta that we have since late last week(expect a play preview in the middle of the month ) there is pop limit of 300 and no unlimited option
our beta doesnt have the editor, but i'm confident that there will be some option or editor feature to allow more...

Because if Moscow is captured because I had no units, and I Have an army on the other side of the world....Sometimes Ill want a game where this does not happen.

loose capital=loose game is an option

But....will there be barbarians?

no barbarians

This is also optional, right? Once I completly learn RoN, I dont want large blocks of text to appear every time I roll over a unit.....

optional too

[playshogi]

I'm kind of surprised the Spanish will be able to see the entire map. This means if the game is set so everyone sees the map, the Spanish will have no special trait. OTOH, in a standard game with fog-o'-war for everyone else, the Spanish will be programmed to NEVER trade their map away? In a standard solo game will all 18 civs play? Or is there some limit like Civ3 depending on map size? I wonder how fast the game will play when the map fills up with cities and units.

[One_Dead_Villy]

u can only have up to 8 players (or 1 players and 7 computer opponents, or any combination of 8) at a time. (each having a choice of 18 civs)

[One_Dead_Villy]

Originally posted by MarkG
[there is pop limit of 300 and no unlimited option

are u serious there is a NO pop limit, as in you can just keep building more armies or villagers till your computer conks out option?

[MarkG]

yeap, what Tassadar5000 said

i have found that it works fine most of the time. but then again i havent tried the huge maps yet

[Kniprode]

Pop limits

Are population limits able to be set on a per player basis? I would like to be able to set Russia and China at a higher pop limit than Germany, Japan, or Britain in a WWII scenario.

[MarkG]

perhaps in a scenario(actually i'm pretty sure it could be done via scripting)
no current option for that in the game setup screen