AI Handicaps

[GenocideBringer]

There's an optional mod for the original AI mod that reduces the handicaps the AI gets at high difficulty levels. Is this implemented into the better BTS ai?

 

[mystikx21]

I think as BTS came out they (firaxis) made considerable use of the original AI modding to improve the AI and hence toned down the AI bonuses to compensate for the fact that it was smarter. In other words, it's implemented into the BTS AI, not the better BTS AI.

 

[Cybah]

@GenocideBringer: you can simply modify the handicaps by editing CIV4HandicapInfo.xml

 

[GenocideBringer]

Alright, thanks!

 

[Elenhil]

So, to make it clear, is the reduced AI handicaps plugin ment to make better AI closer to the original BTS in terms of AI bonuses?

 

[mystikx21]

That plugin was for the vanilla/warlords version of Better AI, not the current BTS version. So no.

BTS itself includes a number of modifications to difficulty because it has a decent AI overhaul improvement from vanilla CIV.
You'd have to modify the xml file yourself to make it easier (or harder). Or get someone to do it for you (it's basically just a complicated looking form/text file).