Number of towns in Random game

[ThomasJones]

I have played several Random games at 100x100 hexes. I have set the Towns slider in the setup window to 5, yet I get more like 100 towns. In fact, I get the same number of towns no matter what I set the town slider bar to (except if I set it to zero, I get only 1 town per regime).

[rickier65]

If I recall, there is a setting for enhanced or optomized for AI. If you use this, I think perhaps it adds more towns. Could this be what's happening?

Rick

[ThomasJones]

That's it! I didn't check the "Optimize for AI" block and it created the number of towns I indicated. Thanks a lot.

Do you know what else the "Optimize for AI" choice does besides override the number of towns?

[Jeffrey H.]

It's the only noticeable effect on my random games. I'm not even sure it improves the game quality vs. AI.

[SSFSX17]

AIs use production centers as focus points for their militaries. If there's a long distance between two production centers, the AIs may not protect the routes very well.