AI difficulty advantages

[HULKsmash]

Does anyone know what are the specific advantages the AI gets from King level onwards? Are they the same as those in Civ 4?

 

[jagdtigerciv]

They get less health bonus'. Hah.

 

[Fistalis]

Does anyone know what are the specific advantages the AI gets from King level onwards? Are they the same as those in Civ 4?

Simply find your HandicapInfos.xml file and open with note pad.. This is where those pesky AI cheats are. If its similar to 4 even at the "balanced" difficulty lvl the AI will get cheats just less cheats and you won't get bonuses. Noble on Civ IV still gave the AI small cheats but give you no added bonuses so it was the closest to "balanced" there was without modding. I'd check but I uninstalled it and don't feel like dealing with steam just to play with XMLs lol

 

[KAuss]

All I ever notice is that they always have 12 happy faces to start, and they have about 5x your army on emperor... Still because they're all warriors, once you have ONE archer you've basically equalized their advantage...

I know they get research bonus too, but because you only need to focus on getting longsword and cannon to win the game, it does not matter how fast they tech usually... Unless your game is on a huge map where it is impossible to kill them all off fast enough...

They always disapprove you too because your are under army for 1/3 of the game... So expect a lot more wars...