Changing the population limit

[barry_scot]

Apparantly there is a quite low population limit at the moment and this would explain why i can't get more than 17 colonists; therefore i would like the population limit to be increased or limitless to some degree. My world feels completely empty as i only have control of the corner of my map and expanding is meaningless as i can't get more colonists to use it.

Increasing the population limit would be a really easy thing to do in my opinion and would allow the player to have a massive base which feels alive and used; obviously if the population is increased then so would the raider count but to be honest bigger battles would be cool to control and watch.

My second idea is having a some what limitless population, which would be great, but i understand that this might cause stability issues in such an early version of the game. That's why i suggest that it is controlled by bed count, food count, or just by time (to name a few examples).

[Galileus]

http://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=1002.0
http://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=1092.0
http://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=1073.0

And so on and so on. Also, mentioned by Tynan countless times low population limit is the design choice as well as optimization one. Also, no pop limit on Randy Random. Also, awesome mods of awesome Rhodes. And so on.

[Wopian]

Check Rhode's thread in the mods section - has a 5x and 10x population cap increase mod.

[barry_scot]

thanks for this, but is Tynan planning to increase the cap at some point?

[Ford_Prefect]

There is no reason he couldn't, other than the game has almost no optimizations yet (which means larger populations currently really slow the game down).