More than 99 turns?

[Atreides]

So I tried setting turns=100 & 101 in the MP scenario file and both end up unlimited nonetheless.

Is 99 the maximum length one can set? (same as using the slider at game creation)

(For the curious it is for the giant Dominus maps where 100 turns isn't enough but 200 is too much : )

Oddly enough you can edit a saved game to make it stop at 144 turns (triggering turns over advantage). So there is a messy way...

99 seems like it might be enough anyways but I would like to be on the safe side and in any case I wasn't expecting a 99 turn limit so I'm curious to find out...

[dwarftough]

In LotI there were maps with turn limit 200. In SP at least it should work

[Lord-Knightmare]

So I tried setting turns=100 & 101 in the MP scenario file and both end up unlimited nonetheless.

I got curious and I got the same thing...
and then I read the code comments...

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if(!config_engine_->force_lock_settings()) {
			// Max slider value (in this case, 100) means 'unlimited turns', so pass the value -1
			const int num_turns = turns_->get_widget_value();
config_engine_->set_num_turns(num_turns < ::settings::turns_max ? num_turns : - 1);

Apparently, it seems for MP mode, the turn limit is hard locked to 99. Any thing else beyond that is read as -1 which is "unlimited".

[Atreides]

Ah well, no biggie. Gonna use 99 and hey if I reach the 90's and _still_ wanna play I could edit the save file. But by 99 it's usually turned into a cleanup with 100's of units to control.

[Lord-Knightmare]

Ah well, no biggie. Gonna use 99 and hey if I reach the 90's and _still_ wanna play I could edit the save file. But by 99 it's usually turned into a cleanup with 100's of units to control.

No, what I meant is...you found a bug.

[gfgtdf]

While it would be nice if this was fixed in the engine, you can still change the number of turns in a presart event it will then overwrite whatever the user choose as a turn limit (if you want that)