diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 6ac5e02e3ff..3461433fa13 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ sudo: false
 env:
   BYOND_MAJOR="508"
   BYOND_MINOR="1287"
+  MACRO_COUNT=1247
   
 cache:
   directories:
@@ -32,7 +33,7 @@ script:
   - (! grep 'step_[xy]' maps/**/*.dmm)
   - (! find nano/templates/ -type f -exec md5sum {} + | sort | uniq -D -w 32 | grep nano)
   - (! grep -E "<\s*span\s+class\s*=\s*('[^'>]+|[^'>]+')\s*>" **/*.dm)
-  - (num=`grep -E '\\\\(red|blue|green|black|b|i[^mc])' **/*.dm | wc -l`; echo "$num escapes (expecting 1257 or less)"; [ $num -le 1257 ])
+  - (num=`grep -E '\\\\(red|blue|green|black|b|i[^mc])' **/*.dm | wc -l`; echo "$num escapes (expecting ${MACRO_COUNT} or less)"; [ $num -le ${MACRO_COUNT} ])
   - md5sum -c - <<< "0af969f671fba6cf9696c78cd175a14a *baystation12.int"
   - md5sum -c - <<< "88490b460c26947f5ec1ab1bb9fa9f17 *html/changelogs/example.yml"
   - python tools/TagMatcher/tag-matcher.py ../..