Actually, the unit limit is more for benefit of gameplay... on a poor Pentium2-350, maxxing out at 500 units could really bog you down. Plus, on a 56k, reaching up even to 200 units can present problems for the limited bandwidth of the connection.Sea Skimmer wrote:SylasGaunt wrote:Sea Skimmer wrote: The game allows for 200-500 units per side. You can have up to ten sides but that only multiplayer. The real wars was just Arm and Core. Of course if each had more then one commander then who knows. The unit limit seem to be purely for play balancing because of the unlimited resources, not because the Commanders couldn't control more units then that. The manual doesn’t mention any such limit.
If the technology allowed it, Chris Taylor would probably have been quite happy to code the game to allow for thousands of units... unfortunately, when TA was first released, 64 megs of RAM was still considered high end.
