Game Difficulty

[Antiochus_Soter]

What does the different game difficulty seetings affect? I.e. when you set the game difficulty to a higher level what becomes harder? Do your revolt chances increase? Does the money you generate become less? Omen succes chance? Size of barbarian hordes? Statistics of your characters? Sizes of foriegn armies? Attrition rates? Agression, tactics, and intelligence of foriegn AI controled nations? The manual does not say anything.

 

[nachinus]

I can't tell for sure, but from the top of my head, it affects a few variables such as character loyalty or stability cost. You can check it out in the defines.txt file in the 'common' folder for the exact details. I think the difficulty modifiers are towards the end of the file.

 

[Achab]

Mouseover?

 

[legatus123]

The difficulty settings are listed in the Static modifiers.txt in the commom folder:

# Difficulty Modifiers
##########################################################################

very_easy_player = {

global_manpower_modifier = 0.5
build_cost = -0.5
global_revolt_risk = -3
ruler_popularity_gain = 2
}

easy_player = {
global_manpower_modifier = 0.25
build_cost = -0.25
global_revolt_risk = -1
ruler_popularity_gain = 1
}

hard_player = {
}

very_hard_player = {
land_morale = -0.25
naval_morale = -0.25
}




very_easy_ai = {
land_morale = -0.25
naval_morale = -0.25
ruler_popularity_gain = -0.5
}

easy_ai = {
}

hard_ai = {
land_morale = 0.25
naval_morale = 0.25
global_tax_modifier = 0.25
ruler_popularity_gain = 1
}

very_hard_ai = {
land_morale = 0.5
naval_morale = 0.5
global_tax_modifier = 0.5
ruler_popularity_gain = 2
}

 

[Cheexsta]

Legatus beat me to it. They just give the player and/or the AI a few bonuses/penalties, depending on the difficulty. To my knowledge, it doesn't change the AI behaviour or strategies or anything like that.

 

[legatus123]

Cheexsta, you are the top advisor on this site. Your Strategy Guide on Republics is very helpfull.

 

[Cheexsta]

I can't claim credit for all of its contents; most of the information has been around on the forums forever, pretty much. Thanks, though