Hardcoded limits

[makanyane]

Oh forgot one thing..is it possible the hardcoded limits differ per game version,ie 1.2,1.3 & 1.5????? This is a variable I had not considered,but looking at the original date of the The Guild discussion(2005),perhaps a change in game since then???? I do not know the computer 'mechanics' of what the updates change,so forgive my thoughts.

Quite possible the earliest versions 1.1 and 1.2 happily accepted units with a building_conditional in the EDB
whereas that broke to a great extent in the later versions. As well as causing CTD when building conditioned units were right clicked I think that was when it acquired the bug where you could only have a very limited (4?) number of building conditioned units available in same city before it CTD'd.....?

Whatever changed that might have changed other things to do with the recruitment capabilities, but I've got no idea what version the 32 max limit was tested on.

[Kylan271]

Ok updating as of today.

Recruitment roster is up to 49+ without crashing,RTW 1.5

Alex.exe DMB limit at 513 'types',checked via Divus Unit Counter,and manually using bogus wardogs..1-300+ aghhh.

I have to recheck RTW & BI DMBs.

[juanpablo]

In BI I managed to get the number of regions down to two (one roman and one rebel) I think two is impossible cuz a region has a limit on how large it can be i found out that this was the onlyt way i could get the game with no CTD

[CPT Worsham]

Units recruitable in a given city, not counting agents: Min 0, max 32. Default usage, experimentation. Extras CTD.

I'm not sure how it could be possible, but in the sub-mod I'm making of RS2 I have as many as 38 units (non-agents) recruitable in a city, and I get no CTDs from it.

[Conqistador]

This model limit of polys applies only to campaign map models or it does work for battle models? If not, then what is the limit of battle models?

[Seth Krn3ll]

Not sure if anyone will need this, but well, I got it so here it is.

Maximum number of entries the dbb of RTW can handle.

Descr_Building_battle.txt (and includes)
Maximum number of entries for .dbb: max 1000. Effects for extras errorless CTD on startup.
(the number may not be absolutely precise though: too many commented entries to be totally sure - anyway its not far from that)

[Squid]

Per .dbb file or over all .dbb files?

[Seth Krn3ll]

Per .dbb file or over all .dbb files?

Over all.

I had sometimes CTDs also on single dbb files, but was pretty weird, because they had less entries then other .dbb files.
Guess the reason there was not the number of entries.

Anyway the maximum overall number shall be some around 1k. I reached it and from a month or so anytime I want to to add new dbb entries I have to remove unused vanilla ones - which is pretty tricky most times.

[coldfusion21]

I'm not sure how it could be possible, but in the sub-mod I'm making of RS2 I have as many as 38 units (non-agents) recruitable in a city, and I get no CTDs from it.

What i just found out now is that the limit is 32/building . I have 38 units from 2 barracks in EB and it works just fine, but if i move then all to main barrack it crashes.

[Aradan]

Setting a region's base farming level to -1 in descr_regions causes a freeze when trying to open the settlement or settlement details scroll. Only happens with this particular value. Thanks to Bardo for confirming it.

[Wraith.]

I hope this is a right thread to ask. It is actually not a paramount problem but there are - in Rome Total War - some roman names/surnames making characters sound ... let us say, nerdy, to me - like Amulius Popillius or Lentulus Lollius etc. So, I have tried to change (add a few new entries and delete few others) in descr_names and descr_names_lookup and - it goes without saying - adjusting descr.strat in the matter of these removed name entries. As result I got game crashes. Are there names codes anywhere else except descr_names, descr_names lookup and descr_strat? Are there names hardcoded?

[One-Eye]

there is also file "names.txt" in data/text where you need do changes.
also be sure you have no one error and also empty place as you see in attachments behind name Amulius.

[CanOmer]

I did not find the aswer for my questions.

What is the max limit of unit recruitment and upkeep cost?
What is the min limit of soldier?

[Spike]

there is no limit in money-related issue I think, but ridiculous pricing is generally not good

min limit of soldier is 6 on normal (and on EDU)

[Aradan]

Max cost is 65535.

[Kylan271]

So the recruitment limit is 32 per building...ok will have to keep an eye out for this. Hmm,I thought I had over this with my cloned wardogs....have to test again????

[CanOmer]

min limit of soldier is 6 on normal

There are 6 elephant and 6 elephant rider in one unit. If I reduce the elephants to 3 then what happens? And, will the game work properly?

[Spike]

There are 6 elephant and 6 elephant rider in one unit. If I reduce the elephants to 3 then what happens? And, will the game work properly?

as long as the "real men" aka the riders is still 6, the game will still work properly, in fact, you can make 1 elephant unit in normal, as long as the elephant has 6 riders on top of it

[Acroneos]

Hello! Maximum amount of historical events in RTW 1.6 (BI) is 240!
With historic events I mean also plagues and volcanoes!

[Gäiten]

Alex.exe DMB limit at 513 'types',checked via Divus Unit Counter,and manually using bogus wardogs..1-300+ aghhh.

Does this mean I can use 513 models instead of the 255 in BI?
What is the limit in Alex-BI for the EDU (500 in BI)?