+ CIV
+ Warlords

Patches 1.74 and 2.13w - nothing changed
BtS spreadsheet to be posted soon

Here is a full scale Excel spreadsheet of Civ4HandicapInfo.xml. This file defines differences among Civ4 Difficulty Levels. The only change in Warlords is iAnimalAttackProb. Vanilla values are in brackets.

All elements of the Civ4HandicapInfo.xml:
http://nm.civfanatics.ru/ref/civ4levels.gif
http://nm.civfanatics.ru/ref/civ4levels.gif

List of available Goodies (20 entries for each level):
http://nm.civfanatics.ru/ref/civ4goodies.gif
http://nm.civfanatics.ru/ref/civ4goodies.gif


And the Excel spreadsheet :

Nice, I hadn't seen these numbers before. It is interesting to see what parameters Firaxis chose to ramp up the game's difficulty. Good job making this clearer. :goodjob:

Apart from many of the others I note that "igold" is zero on all counts. Any idea what this is for?

I'd be guessing that's the starting gold amount, however, don't we start with 10 gold in lower levels??

I made new reference charts for difficulty levels. The charts now represent all elements of Civ4HandicapInfo.xml. Check images in the first post.

This is great but I need more help in explaining it haha :P

Can you explain the modifiers for AI a little more in depth? I'm trying to figure out the growth rate for AI at each difficulty level. I usually play Noble, and it seems like no matter what I do the AI always grows faster. The modifiers as shown in the spreadsheet don't make much sense. It seems like the numbers are opposite what they should be, but I'm probably not understanding the meaning of each percentage.

For example, the iAIconstruct percentage for Settler is 160% for AI? Can't be true.

160% means 160% time, so it is true;) Lower means better here.
Congratulations to everyone who can win a Deity game:)

Deity... right. I can barely scrap by in Noble. Now, according to the modifier, the AI growth rate is 100%, as you say, time. Does that mean it is equal to the human player rate?

Interesting that you get 5 free wins against barbs in settler... I thought there were no barbs at that level!