options menu advicers leaders question

[raahoj]

options menu advicers leaders question, whats the difference normal event historical?

Size of coloniests, if I pick 400 would the ai nations do the same and build huge empires fast? And isnt this a kind of allowed cheating like abusing holy war/ casus beli?

 

[raahoj]

difficulty and ai agressiveness whats the difference, also in the options menu before game starts, easy normal hard etc, im not really good but prefer a challange?

 

[unmerged(204522)]

changes made in DW expansion made colonies much less attractive, so increasing colonist size offsets those changes-it can be extremely tedious to conquer horde territory with colonist size set to minimum-colonist size is the same for all nations. toughest AI challenge is very hard/low aggression with "lucky nations" set to historical.

 

[George LeS]

Leader options:

Normal: This means you hire them, each costing 1 Diplomat, 60d, and some tradition (land or naval). The more tradition you have, the better they get. Explorers and Conquistadors work the same, except you must have QFTNW.

Event: You must provide the events generating them; there are none provided with vanilla. Several mods provide them. If you don't add them, you've effectively chosen a "no leaders" option (except monarchs).

Historical: Those leaders defined in the nations' history files show up when they did, and die when they did, provided that nation exists at the proper time. Any nation which didn't exist at a given time will get no leaders then. Note that this includes cases like ENG/GBR and CAS/ARA/SPA. The only leaders you will get will be those for the formed or unformed version, if the nation's formation date, in-game, is different than history. Thus, if you form GBR in 1550, you won't get Francis Drake, who is an ENG leader. NOT recommended except for short replays of specific wars.

Hope that helps.

 

[jdrou]

Normal: This means you hire them, each costing 1 Diplomat, 60d, and some tradition (land or naval). The more tradition you have, the better they get. Explorers and Conquistadors work the same, except you must have QFTNW.

And IIRC explorers and conquistadors consume colonists instead of diplomats. The base cost is 50d but very very poor countries may pay less.