Custom number of Skirmish opponents image - Command & Conquer Unofficial Patch 1.06 mod for Command & Conquer
The Past Ain't What It Used To Be... The first Command & Conquer received its last official update on the 21st of June, 1996. Since then, the game has been ported to Windows (as "Gold" version), and re-released in the big "The First Decade" collection pack, but has never received any more bug fixes. The C&C Gold Patch 1.06 project aims to bring this classic into the new millennium, by fixing the old bugs, supporting higher resolutions, and adding new modding and mapping possibilities. It also contains an addon-based language system, allowing anyone to create translation packs for the game.
The workings of the new "SkirmishPlayers" option in conquer.ini, as edited through CCConfig.
Here you see the Multiplayer tab of the CCConfig tool, where the new option was added.
Does this mean there will be computer players or is a general limit to muiltiplayer players?
No, this only applies to Skirmish.
The problem with implementing this for multiplayer is that all players would need to independently set it to the same value, or C&C95 would crash when launching the multiplayer game.
C&C95 doesn't really send a lot of data over network to prepare for a game, and so far I haven't found a way to expand that data to include more settings I'd like to spread to the other players.