Is it me or am i the only one who likes to play long matches with 90 minutes treaty, more people then 500 standard.
IDK i played with the population mods some of my friends PC cant handle it. Are there people out here who likes to play with troops of 1.500 á 1.000? Maybe more xD
If yes and your PC can handle it. Post your IG name here i guess. And sorry if this the wrong topic couldn’t really find a topic about finding friends 
My IG name iss Gobbler
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You can raise population beyond 500 with triggers in scenarios. I’ll give you the followings example I have done similar for some maps I made. My base pop is 200, but I add 800 making it 1000. Headroom is simply filling with houses.
Under trigger: Tribute. Take note of source player 1, and target player as gaia, and this minus symbol - before the number. Gaia will then give you the resources/pop.
Can i edit all the maps to a scenario? And how exactly do i do this and put the population higher?
is it possible by this way more people will join?
Scenarios and random maps are 2 different things.
You can change the population via triggers in a scenario and you can modify random maps to have higher population by editing the resource data for them.
Both don’t require mods so you instances can be joined by anyone but it requires either a custom scenario or a custom random map.
More details in the resource section.
You can use “MOD_RESOURCE” and “ATTR_SET” or “ATTR_ADD” with “AMOUNT_POPULATION_CAP”.
You can probably find the scripts for the build in random maps somewhere and then just add a line to increase max population.
Okey i tried everything, even took everything through with chatGPT. I got to the part i can code a new random map into having for example more population and resources. But… I’d for example wanted to start a game with 1000 population and did the code like ad 800. I started the game up. my folder was found as a mod and as extra map. I didn’t had to build houses and my max was 500. Now chatGPT says it’s not possible for anyway by the engine of the game saying 500 is the max. Thus only with cheat My CPU can Handle it but also with mods like more population mod. Is there a way you could describe to me step by step very simple how to reach more
I’ve also read this document you send me. I cannot find anythin about pushing mx population above 500.
English is not my main language i can write, read and speak it well but it seems to me that when it comes to computer stuff and progamming it gets a little above my head. ChatGPT helps me but he keeps telling me there is a max limit to 500. I read your text and i think do i need to put a text note and save it as a RSM somewhere with the code amount_population_cap???
Why are you seeking help from AI when it’s notorious for getting crucial information wrong?
If you set the population to 500 in the lobby it overwrites whatever the Scenario or Random map sets as far as I know.
“AMOUNT_POPULATION” should give you free population.
I have no idea if ChatGTP is any help with AoE2 random maps. ChatGTP constantly makes mistakes about everything so you always have to be careful what it tells you to do. If you set it up wrongly it won’t show you an error and it will just not do the thing you set up wrongly, which is kinda annoying.
I never tried it myself so it might be possible that it’s actually hard limited to 500. I currently can’t test it because I’m not at home.
Don’t ask chatpgt for this sort of thing. Here is another way of doing it.
Make trigger in scenario editor: modify resource, set, bonus population cap “1000”.
Second trigger modify resource, add, population headroom “1000”. Fills up your pop space. You even make it 500 pop, so still need houses, just less.
Make sure population headroom is “add” instead of set.
In game. Pop is now 1000.
For random map scripting things, I suggest asking in the Discord rather than here:
If raising the population in the way you want is possible, the people there will be able to tell you how to do it. It probably just involves putting a single line of code into the RMS file.
I’d expect ChatGPT to have zero chance of being able to do something like this. It needs large amounts of relevant data to work (inasmuch as it “works” at all). It can function ok for standard things done in mainstream programming languages, but what you’re asking for is an unusual use of a very niche language.
As I posted on steam a while back, I honestly don’t think there is a limit anymore. (It used to crash at some point but, that was fixed. Except 230400 tiles of units but, you can always make more I am sure.) Although, I personally found that 2000 pop is manageable (1 Player.) but, it starts to lag badly after that. This game below was unbearably slow. (230400 Villagers. I was testing/curious.)
edit: I was making a villager only scenario to mess around with an eco-only game. It’s interesting but, gets boring fast.
I’ve now had a preset map arabia as rms to change it: this is the starting code. Did i put add popu 1300 on the right place?
/* Project from 2013-2015 */
/* Anniversary Pack is a project I started in the beginning of 2013. The idea behind this map pack was to create some new cool maps
and then post them on the 13th anniversary year for AoC (August 26th). */
/* Big thanks to Autechre, Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and Warp Records(C) for their music and inspiration. Also big thanks to Nolife Radio (http://nolife-radio.com/) for the great music! */
/* Special thanks to: [LoS]ayase_chihaya(CH_Wired), Mega(Megakhan), musky, lecture, Old magic, raptor and Mounstrosity
for helping me out with this project. Thanks for playtesting and support! */
/* In addition: Thanks to The_Prophet for letting me use the MegaRandom(WCL 7) resource engine/script (Sheeps, Boar, Gold, Berries etc) for my map pack. */
/* ************************************ /
<PLAYER_SETUP>
amount_population_cap attr_set 1300
random_placement
/ ****************************************************** /
start_random
percent_chance 0 #define AP_PACK1 / 95% Done ~ /
percent_chance 100 #define AP_PACK2 / 95% Done ~ /
percent_chance 0 #define AP_PACK3 / #0% /
percent_chance 0 #define AP_PACK4 / #0% /
percent_chance 0 #define AP_PACK5 / #0% /
percent_chance 0 #define AP_NOMAD / 5% Done */
end_random
At player setup, do i do something wrong? I dit amount population 1300 but nothing happens ingame.
Maybe if someone can just make a few standard maps with extra population at 1500 and more recourses i would even pay for these maps xD
you forgot the “effect_amount MOD_RESOURCE ”
So:
effect_amount MOD_RESOURCE amount_population_cap attr_set 1300
effect_amount MOD_RESOURCE AMOUNT_BONUS_POPULATION_CAP attr_set 1300
should work.
Tried everything i could. Really is not working mate… Is there a way you could create or put it into a RMS file. Add some more recourses if you could and send or copy the whole RMS here….
Like i said i’d even pay for a map pack in which people can play with 1000 or 1500 without mods or cheats