What's up, RMers?

[kyonides]

Most of what I've found about a possible fix is just people saying that no project should need that many maps and being generally dismissive towards the topic.

Dismissive?  Screw em.  I'm prolly going to copy this script to the forum n give good ol' Zeriab credit (of course). He wrote it a DECADE ago...

https://www.arpgmaker.com/threads/disc-c...aps.54190/

Oh, and his Mediafire links works. (>click me<)

Nice find! And thank God that Mediafire isn't its usual unreliable self.

And yeah, take at look at this thread:

https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php...in.135594/

Dismissive with a side of "Why the hell are you still using RPGXP?!". I don't know about others but I simply dislike the direction that RPG Maker took after XP.

I'm not really sorry to tell you this but needing over 999 for a single game is a terrible design by definition.
Just think about it, a game is like a book. You've got paragraph and chapters for a reason. One should let the game end where it feels more natural based on its own main story.

Oh yeah, people will claim that open worlds have no story. Pfffft!

The only way that can be true would be to get a mere sandbox from the game developer. Once again that would be a bad design by default. Of course, an increase in the maximum number of supported maps would be ideal but Enterbrainless now Kawabanga don't feel like it.

You know, it's not bad to realize that your game concept is way bigger than it should be.  Don't feel bad about that!

It happens even to people like me, an amateur writer. A couple of times I've discussed with Wulfo in regards of how long a paragraph or even a whole section of a chapter or the chapter itself actually should be. Sometimes I've kept the original format but there have been times where after a couple of months I consider it might be convenient to split a kilometric chapter and assign brand new titles to the newcomers. Somehow they look more organized and consistent than ever before.

Just look at Hegel's works. His book can sport paragraphs as long as a whole medicine reference book. 
That would represent an open world gone astray.

So episodic games seem to be a good idea for a large world. Even then there are ways to transfer data between them up to some point.