This simple modification to a file called "Population.ini" will allow you to change the limit of your minions from a maximum of 100 up to 500 minions. I remember this being especially helpful when I last played this great game years ago.

All of this info is copy pasted from a very excellent and thankfully still-existing Evil Planet (Evil Planet) which is a website dedicated to Evil Genius. The population info is linked from their Modding section.

Evil Planet - population mod
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Modding
A guide to editing the population numbers, from various forum members

Go to your ...\DynamicResources\Config folder, and open up population.ini.

Remove all the current settings and then paste:

FOR POPULATION LIMIT OF 200:

MaxPopulation=200
PopulationEntry=0,20
PopulationEntry=2,30
PopulationEntry=4,40
PopulationEntry=10,50
PopulationEntry=20,70
PopulationEntry=40,90
PopulationEntry=60,110
PopulationEntry=80,130
PopulationEntry=100,150
PopulationEntry=120,160
PopulationEntry=140,170
PopulationEntry=160,180
PopulationEntry=180,200
PopulationEntry=200,200

FOR POPULATION LIMIT OF 500:

MaxPopulation=500
PopulationEntry=0,50
PopulationEntry=5,75
PopulationEntry=10,100
PopulationEntry=25,125
PopulationEntry=50,175
PopulationEntry=100,225
PopulationEntry=150,275
PopulationEntry=200,325
PopulationEntry=250,375
PopulationEntry=300,400
PopulationEntry=350,425
PopulationEntry=400,450
PopulationEntry=450,500
PopulationEntry=500,500
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Further Instructions

1. First, in Windows 7 I had to cut and paste the Population.ini config file from its correct location in the game install directory to my desktop in order to edit and save changes to it. Windows 7 (and probably Vista) doesn't allow modification of files in the Program Files directory. Obviously once done cut and paste the file back to its original location.

2. You can change the values of the above numbers to make it so that one locker can support 500 population, if you wish. Or no (zero) lockers can support up to 500.

Changing PopulationEntry=0,50 to PopulationEntry=0,500 will make it so by default you can support 500 minions without a single storage locker. Unfortunately, you will need at least one storage locker for research later in the game so you should change every Y integer in PopulationEntry=X,Y to what you want your max population so you don't accidentally reduce the support by having existing or building new lockers.

Example:
PopulationEntry=2,20
PopulationEntry=5,25

becomes

PopulationEntry=2,500
PopulationEntry=5,500

Do that for each PopulationEntry line.


Keep in mind, 500 minions will mean a more taxing game for your computer. That probably will not be a problem if you are running a computer which is younger than this game is. You can always reduce the population if the game is running poorly although if your population is in excess of the cap that may cause problems. If in doubt, you can always start with 200 (or any lesser number than 500) and increase the cap from there as you find the need for more minions.

Thanks for reading and I hope this helps. I've tested it with my own game of Evil Genius game save which I began yesterday and then all too quickly hit the minion cap, everything is working. I've been using this mod since I knew where the physical disc was located; it's not going to break anything.

So wait, first you go to the system files and erase then copy and paste to the desktop. Then you can make the actually changes to the program files?

Yeah, you can't edit and save the changes to the file (Population .ini) while it's still in a sub-directory of Program Files. It's like anything in that folder tree are set to Read Only.

The easy way around this would be Cut and Paste the file (Population) to somewhere else that you can easily access, so for me, that's the Desktop.

Once it's on the Desktop, open with Notepad, make the edits, then Save and close.

Cut and Paste the file back to it's proper and original location in the Evil Genius folder ...\DynamicResources\Config

Hope that this helps clarify.

So let me get this straight the number on the right is the total number of Minion you can get and the number on the left is what it takes (lockers) to get those minions is that right?

Yes, you are correct.

I'm so lost i can't seem to find the ...\DynamicResources\Config folder help?

Assuming that during the install of EG you didn't change the install location (went with Default choices), then the full path to \Config would be this if you have a 64bit version of Windows:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Evil Genius\DynamicResources\Config

or if you are not on 64bit Windows it will be here:
C:\Program Files\GOG.com\Evil Genius\DynamicResources\Config

I cannot seem to find "C:\Program Files\GOG.com\Evil Genius\DynamicResources\Config". I have tried searching the computer for it and even typed the above caption into the properties section, but still no luck.

It should be in the directory you installed your game to. Default path would be C:\Games\GOGcom\Evil Genius with the new 2.0 installers.

how do you increase the cap on mac OS X?

hey shadowwulf and anybody else looking for help in this regard!

i found the population.ini with the search tool. just right-click on the application, show package content, then search for it. couldn't find it manually, i think it's hidden.
hope this helps!

cheers!

Thanks for sharing!

These instructions are outdated. I added the correct instructions here.
http://ratchet302.gitlab.io/games/e/evil-genius/tweaks/population.html#game-tweaking

You only need to change MaxPopulation. PopulationEntry does something else.

You can up delete all the PopulationEntry lines if you want to. PopulationEntry controls what your minion capacity is set to after you complete enough acts of infamy, here's the correct format.
PopulationEntry = MissionsToComplete, NewPopulationCapacity

By doing PopulationEntry = 500, 500 you told the game that you want to complete 500 missions, once you do that, your population capacity is set to 500.

If you want 500 minions, only change MaxPopulation to 500. Anything else is useless.

dude i need help i am trying to use the links in both posts and other but i can't seem to find the folder if i need to download somthing on evil planet it's down what do i do