Lots of players
Anyway, I've fooling around with the AI when it suddenly hit me - how many players Remake can handle? 8, maybe 9 as TDL requested? I mean how hard can it be - replace MAX_PLAYERS = 8 with something different, maybe 18? Easy to say and whats surprising - easy to make.
What you see below is a modified AcrossDesert map that has 18 players (17 AIs + 1 Human). Game time is ~1hr 20min and you can already see that most advanced (read "lucky") AIs managed to build something resembling towns, yet unlucky ones (violet, orange) made excessively stupid decisions to build houses without short roads.
My apology for large image - making it any smaller would have lost all the details.
KaM Remake at: http://www.kamremake.com
Original MBWR/WR2/AFC/FVR tools at: http://krom.reveur.de