Max # of units? Anybody know?

Docfeelgood · July 13, 2000, 11:16

Does anybody know the max number of units?

At a certain point in the game I cannot build anymore units.
Seems to be at about five hundred.
Any idea?
Its purty damn fustrating when Im gittin ready for a massive invasion and then find Im not able to build the transports.

Thanks in advance
Doc

Ned · July 13, 2000, 13:59

Docfeelgood, I have had the game never come out of end-of-turn, probably due to something being overloaded, but I have never reached a unit limit. This was a real problem in the original CIV game where the limit was around 120 units, if I remember correctly. One simply did not have enough units to both garrison one's cities and launch and offensive. So, typically, you just left your "interior" cities unoccuppied.

I suggest a similar strategy here.

Googlie · July 14, 2000, 17:20

Doc:

Just opened another saved game - I have 865 units (88 bases) - altho of the units, 218 are land supply crawlers and 242 are ocean crawlers (don't know if that makes any difference - their not all being combat units)

Googlie

Googlie · July 15, 2000, 00:39

Doc:

Same as ned - I have a stalled game that several have tried to advance, but it was humungus map and many units (but I had only 421, whereas Yang (AI) had almost 600)

Don't think it's a #s thing, prolly an overall systems overload thing. (My rig's a PIII 700 with 128 MB RAM and I prolly pushed it to the limit - the map was 960 x 900)

Googlie

overcome · December 19, 2000, 15:41

Where can you find a count for the number of units? Or do you need to do a city by city inspection in the base operations status screen?

RedFred · December 19, 2000, 15:59

Why not go to the base operations and hit the button that displays all the units? If you add up all the (alive) units there it will be quicker than a base by base inspection if you have a big empire.

Googlie · December 19, 2000, 16:37

RedFred et al:

game does the addition for you.

F7 brings it up

Bottom left should have a small window that shows:

Land Units x - y - z
Naval units x - y - z
Air Units x - y - z
Non-combat Units x - y - z
________________

Total Units x - y - z

where x = # active; y = # in production and z = # lost

(Can also be accessed thru the F2 key, and Security Nexus (penultimate icon - shield - in the icon row at bottom)

G.