Favorite settings

[Rosey Palmer]

I have been playing on very hard, with above average aggression. What are your favorite settings to play on?

I'm asking because I've heard that on very hard the ai gets efficiency benefits to its factories. I want to play against an ai opponent that doesn't get breaks like that. Also, I've played 4 games and everytime Russia is an impossibly dominant force, so I'm hoping on normal it's literacy rating will finally hurt it.

I think I'll play on average aggression as well. Just to give it a shot.

 

[Lotus Lo]

normal - equal
hard - 25% increase in income
v.hard - 50% increase in income

i think that is really the only benefits the ai gets

harder lvls also mean slower reduction of BB and higher deaths of POP's due to combat... maybe some other stuff?

 

[Rosey Palmer]

On VH the level of BB reduction is really really slow. I'm looking forward to being one bad dude on normal.

I think the income increase on VH for the ai leads to really high industrial scores and a large standing army which leads to high military scores.

 

[Henry v. Keiper]

normal - equal
hard - 25% increase in income
v.hard - 50% increase in income

i think that is really the only benefits the ai gets

Ah they do that too? That always annoys me in RTS games where they give the AI HUGE amounts of resources because they think otherwise they won't do as well....but all it does is give the AI enough power to attack you in annoyingly endless rushes!

Any way, I like normal-average

 

[The historian]

i like to play at normal difficulty

 

[unmerged(23444)]

For SP, I play on Very Hard/Aggressive. For MP, I usually set AI aggressiveness to Normal.

 

[Memnon]

It's always normal/normal for me. I keep things constant and just move through countries, getting more and more difficult. Speed is normal, btw.

 

[OriginalRafiki]

Usually normal/normal here too.

Rafiki

 

[Waffen9999]

I usually do normal difficulty but turn the AI agressiveness up. Let them fight me if they dare. Always play on extremely fast.

 

[unmerged(27583)]

hard/aggressive to get a bit of a challenge!
i don't like the world being depopulated because of wars, that's why I don't play very hard. Also the AI gets efficiency bonuses for the factory so it's impossible to win it in industrial score as the AI builds hundreds of factories.

 

[Bejita San]

Very hard, very agressive. I love long drawn out wars. Sometimes you're just waiting for that screen to pop up saying what territory you're being offered. I don't think I've ever offered a peace treaty after blitzing the comp. Unless I got owned

 

[Strategist]

in SP?

- normal/normal
- gamespeed fast
- counters on!
- diplo map...

 

[Tomas the Great]

normal - equal
hard - 25% increase in income
v.hard - 50% increase in income

i think that is really the only benefits the ai gets

harder lvls also mean slower reduction of BB and higher deaths of POP's due to combat... maybe some other stuff?

HA!! that is why they are just flooding world with colonies when you are proud to have a dozen of them.

 

[Rosey Palmer]

I am really liking normal. The African coast isn't covered by 1843, and this is the first time I've ever seen that. Seems more realistic. Plus, the armies aren't stupidly huge.

I'll compensate by not playing as aggresively, so as not to take advantage of the ai. But on VH you've almost got to in order to compete mil and ind wise.

 

[Darkrenown]

I play normal/normal too. Another good thing about normal is when 5k rebels pops up and you kill them, the pop they came from only loses 5K and not 15K like on very hard.

 

[Cavalry]

I like people die a bit, so my German will have a higher percentage in the world! (Sorry, I'm not German!) So I think about playing hard, hope to maket Egypt a state! But I don't like the AI getting more money! So the AI have more production or more tax? If they earn more tax then we can adjust the economic misc file.

 

[Henry v. Keiper]

HA!! that is why they are just flooding world with colonies when you are proud to have a dozen of them.

Hey! *sniff* I like having 12 colonies, its a...good...round number... *sniff* ...and...mh...*runs off to the corner to cry*

 

[Darkrenown]

If they earn more tax then we can adjust the economic misc file.

Adjusting that file will lower affect you too, so the AI will still have a bonus over you.

 

[Amadeus]

Normal/normal me too, extremely fast, fog on, counters off, pausing a lot.
Only playing SP up today.

 

[Cavalry]

Adjusting that file will lower affect you too, so the AI will still have a bonus over you.

Yeah but my main income is from production! So AI get less tax from its numerous people. Anyway it's hard to make a balance game for all country, all user, all time!

I think about how to mod the game in the following trends:
- machine part is rare
- rifle and artillery is rare,
- people die a lot in war, war should be devastasting anyway.
- AI DON'T get economic bonus, at least don't get much!
- It's possible to make France or Eng or Russia bankrupt in war, but still make life not hard for agricuture nations!