Hang on, this is confusing me:
Right but im wanting more than the 500 cap. Like i want... giant battles. so i went to the json configs. changed what i thought i was supposed to change but nothing has changed at all. im still capped out at 300 deployment points.
Capped at 300 points where?
The default max points in settings is 500, so you should already have been able to set it that high without changing anything.
Is the 300 points referring to the max you can deploy in combat? The point value in settings is split between the two sides in battle based on their fleet sizes, with a maximum split ratio of 60:40.
Did you return to settings menu and raise the slider again after changing settings.json?