The recruitment values found in globals are for the difficulty setting, which is why they only affect the player. To change them globally, you would have to modify the citycommon entity, defined in a .xnt file compressed in our archives; you can modify our compressed .xnt files this by putting a .xnt file with the new values in the Resources folder or in the Resources subfolder of a mod.

You can get the game to read .xnt files from a mod folder by creating a folder in your C:\Users\[USERNAME_HERE]\Documents\Longbow Digital Arts\Hegemony III\Mods folder and putting files in the Resources subfolder of your new folder; see our modding tutorials in the Steam forum for more details about modding and our public server for the uncompressed entity files you can modify.

An example .xnt with the default recruitment rates is:<entity modtechnique="merge" type="citycommon" class="city">
<recruitrate>3.0 3.5 4.0 4.5 5.0 5.5 6.0 6.5 7.0 7.5 8.0 9.0</recruitrate>
<maxrecruits>80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190</maxrecruits>
</entity>There's a different number for every level of the city's population; make sure your edited version has a value for all 12 levels.

Hope this helps!