Multiple campaign scenarios have the wrong maximum population limit (or the wrong hints)

Age of Empires II: DE II - Report a Bug
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:play_button: GAME INFORMATION

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  • GAME BUILD #: 101.103.13286.0
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 10

:play_button: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

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Most campaign scenarios state the maximum allowed population in the hints. However, for a number of scenarios, those claims are not true to the gameplay experience: Instead, in all of those cases, the actual maximum population is 200. This issue occurs in the following maps:

Attila 2 (claims max pop of 75, in truth it’s 200 - easiest to tests since huns don’t need houses)
Kotyan Khan 2 (claims max pop of 150, in truth it’s 200)
Kotyan Khan 3 (claims max pop of 150, in truth it’s 200)
Bari 1 (claims max pop of 125, in truth it’s 200)
Yodit 1 (claims max pop of 100, in truth it’s 200)
Honfoglalás (claims max pop of 100 or 150 depending on nomadic/settled style, in truth it’s 200)
Vinlandsaga (claims max pop of 100, in truth it’s 200)
Hastings (claims max pop of 125, in truth it’s 200)
Le Loi 3 (claims max pop of 150, in truth it’s 200)
Le Loi 4 (claims max pop of 120, in truth it’s 200)

These 10 are the ones I have encountered during my current full campaign playthrough. There may be more, because I may not have gotten to maximum population in all scenarios (though I have tried to do so).

:play_button: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

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  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

:play_button: REPRODUCTION STEPS

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Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Start the campaign scenarios mentioned
  2. Read the hints
  3. Build houses until your maximum population doesn’t increase anymore, and check if there’s a difference between the stated and actual maximum population allowed

:play_button: EXPECTED RESULT

:backhand_index_pointing_down: What was SUPPOSED to happen if the bug you encountered were not present?

The hints should be accurate in portraying maximum population

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Here’s an example, from Le Loi 4:

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The hints state a max pop of 120

In reality, it is 200:

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Same issue here. Maybe the developers forget to fix this since it doesn’t break overall experience anyway.

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I’ve just played through the Le Loi campaign (on update 155976), and I can confirm that both scenarios 3 and 4 are still bugged (population-wise).

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Hello,
thanks a lot for this report. We are now tracking this issue.

Hope you’ll have a nice day