Getting past 1mill inhabitants?

[The Witch-King]

Maybe they could be slaves?

But slaves are productive!

So let´s say half of them are slaves and the other half are priests and aristocrats. That should offset it nicely and explain the lack of increased economic value.

 

[Chaingun]

All of these limits are for balancing purposes. That being said, it's kind of weird the city populations are limited to 999 999 since limits on what you gain for a certain population level can be placed anyway. I agree it'd be cooler to have 2 M cities, even if they only give as much as 1 M cities.

 

[Johan]

its a cap cause of how numbers are represented in a PC, and we prefer to use fixed-point values, and not floats.

 

[Johan]

Remember that they are not city populations, but province populations. This is not Civilization, you can live outside major cities.



Which integer representation has an upper bound of 999999? Is EU3 programmed in COBOL? It's the only language I can think of that represents integers in decimal form.

Integers with decimal points Only way to code anything serious nowadays on a PC since floats are "so-fuckin-inexact" in the long run.

Technically the cap is 2147483 since its signed integer with 4 decimals.