No Response Do PreBuilt Settlements respect or expand the Build Limit?

[bullyrook]

I haven't used City Plans in over a year, which is to say not much at all. So please forgive me if the answer to this is obvious. But do prebuilt settlements respect or expand the build limit as needed?

I've only been to a couple of prebuilts. Arriving at both, I saw a notification that the build limit was maxed out/nothing more could be built.

First test play, I had everything set to build at level 1. The second restart, I set everything to level 3.

I'm assuming, from what I've seen of the plans, that they do go over the vanilla limit more and much more. Do the plans for prebuilts even complete if the build limit is hit?

While you are in the vault and everything is cooking up above ground, is there a way to increase the build limit, like you would with the configuration tool at the CP desk?

 

[ArtisanVirgil]

I don't know for all plans but generally they found over max (near twice as much?) Didn't hurt performance much. There's a tool in the Sim settlements options to increase the build limit. We were told using that tool three times kept us under the complexity check, so presumably not a huge performance hog.

 

[bullyrook]

Thanks for your answer @ArtisanVirgil . I guess my real question is will a level 1 prebuilt settlement continue to upgrade/progress on its own if it has hit the build limit?

There's a tool in the Sim settlements options to increase the build limit.

But won't this only work with settlements you control?

 

[ArtisanVirgil]

My understanding is it's based on the settings you have. Like when you started the game if you pick mid or low (or some of the lower Xbox ones) then it won't upgrade past your build limit. You can tell it to ignore the build limit or raise it with that tool. Afraid I don't recall exactly where these options are.

So yeah, for Conqueror you would want to tell it to ignore the limit, but it might do so already if you selected high or ultra.

 

[bullyrook]

@ArtisanVirgil Thank you! Very helpful.

 

[kinggath]

Nailed it @ArtisanVirgil . The initial placement does ignore the build limit, but if you configure things to allow the cities to continue to level up, it will acknowledge your build limit settings when deciding whether to continue going.

So if you start the Cities at level 1, for example, and hit the build limit, they will stay at level 1 until you turn off the build limit, increase the build limit, or go to the settlement and answer the prompt to allow it to override.