It was a lobby setting not a player setting.
Having more stable FPS is of course still an advantage but that’s true for basically every game.
Poll summery
We got 91 votes after 5 days now. I don’t think much will change from now.
Half of the people want to play with more than 200 population but half of those only with about 100 more population.
So having a bit more population seems to be very popular. I’d assume if the developers would have made 300 population the standard it would probably have won this survey.
I guess most people that voted for 200 did so because
- it’s the standard limit the game is designed for
- it’s the standard in AoE2 now and always has been in AoE3.
I’m not really surprised by the result. I expected a few more votes for 200 and I assume in reality more lobbies will be at 200 or max population (what ever that number will be) than something inbetween.
I’m also not surprised that barely anyone voted for less than 200.
I do hope the Developers added a population limit option to the game lobby, or else they will make more than 50% of the players sad/angry.