What exactly does expansion_autoscale do?

[Lyserius]

I'm confused since the AI sometimes has more bases than me, so how exactly does the expansion_autoscale setting work?

[induktio]

If expansion_autoscale is enabled, it simply causes the AI base limit to be one of following, whichever is highest: expansion_limit and player base count. If it is disabled, the base limit is always the same as expansion_limit. By default these limits are set fairly high though.