Rise of Nations Secrets (PC)

Rise of Nations is a real-time strategy computer game, developed by Big Huge Games and published by Microsoft on May 20, 2003. The development of the game was led by veteran Brian Reynolds, of Civilization II and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. Concepts taken from turn-based strategy games have been added into the game - including territories and attrition warfare. Rise of Nations features 18 civilizations, playable through 8 ages of world history.

On April 28, 2004, Big Huge Games released Rise of Nations: Thrones and Patriots, an expansion pack. Later that year, a Gold edition of Rise of Nations was released, which included both the original and the expansion. (Wikipedia)

Secrets

Editing units
Doing this can allow you to change stats of units.

First find your rise of nations folder. then go to the ''data'' folder. Find the file called ''unitrules''. right-click on it and go to properties. be sure to select only archive and disable read-only. open this document using preferable Microsoft Word. Then be sure to read the information. Next you can edit any unit. Be sure not to change the names of the units this can cause errors

Increase population limit
PART I - Find your Rise Of Nations folder in your Microsoft games directory in the program files folder in your C drive. Go into the data folder, and look for rules.xml, right-click the file and select open in notepad. Press Ctrl+F, and type in to search for it. From here you can edit the desired population limit entries in quotation marks. Also, search for and edit value and type in the same number that you entered for the last entry in the pop cap field.

PART II - Then press Ctrl+F, and search poplimits. Edit each category to the desired population cap you would like. Then type in the desired population limits in the data brackets under each category.

For example, the end result would be:

< POP_CAP entry0=''2500'' entry1=''5000'' entry2=''7500'' entry3=''10000'' entry4=''12500'' entry5=''15000'' entry6=''17500'' entry7=''90000 pop cap'' />

then,

< MAX_POP_LIMIT value=''90000 pop cap'' />

then,

< CATEGORIES id=''poplimits'' title=''Population:'' >
< CATEGORY name=''5000''>
< DATA>5000

Gameplay footage from the Gold Edition of the game: