Oh nice, and it works, thanks!

They aren't in the file by default, but the game will respect them if you add them.

The game's dll has a TIGlobalConfig section with default settings for everything in there, and it has a bunch of stuff that isn't actually present in the json file. Anything present in the json file will override the default values in the dll.

You can either make a mod with a TIGlobalConfig json file in it with the following:

[
{
"dataName": "globalConfig",
"maxFactionCouncilorCandidatePool": 30,
}
]

Or just add the
"maxFactionCouncilorCandidatePool": 30,
to the base game file.

And obviously you can change the 30 to whatever. Default is 8.

I'm on 0.4.98 but don't see those new config options in TIGlobalConfig? Or is this something only a .dll can modify?