I am having late game frustrations – the population is too large that my game is very laggy.

I know there is a population limit of 10000, is there anywhere I can make the limit lower?

I would like to limit it to around 3500…

I could not find a script file for that.

Thanks

I think combined with your lower population (possibly optional) limit, 1 car per 4 persons should suffice, currently I’m sure they allow 5 year olds to drive hence the strange antics at junctions.

High: Civ’s 10,000. Scale of Ticket Prices – 100% (as it is now)
Medium: Civ’s 5,000. Scale of Ticket Prices – 200%
Low: Civs 2,500. Scale of Ticket Prices – 400%

but maybe they can optimise it further without resulting in dropping the civs.

the buildings will rebuild, so its no use.

I also tried to limit building space by surrounding the city with train tracks. that, however, does not prevent population from going back up again, and also results in a huge lag each time a new building is built.

My current solution is I modified the script file by reducing all building capacities by half, which effectively halves my population. It works well most of the time.

Did it increase performance, or even just prolong the early game performance?
I might have to give it a go.. I have stopped playing for now due to the performance issues.

I have halved the population and performance is drastically better. I can upload the mod sometime.

Previously i have tried deleting residential buildings, but that does not work.

The only problem with halving it is that also halves your potential ticket sales / income.
I had a brief look in the files and couldn’t find anything to increase this.. I didn’t spend too much time looking though if I am honest.. for it to be a viable option, this would imo need adjusting too.

If it makes a drastic difference then I really do hope the dev’s take note.
I for one would be happy to play with 1/2 the civs paying twice the price for their train / bus journeys if it meant a smooth enjoyable experience. Most other similar genre games don’t even have wandering passengers…excluding CIM.