Changing Difficulty In Custom Game?

[sublime8992]

I see the option of changing the difficulty of the human controlled Civ, but not the one(s) that the AI control. I know you can change it in a Play Now! game, but I wanted to try some different things. I wanted to try some new things and I'm still very new to the game and *sigh* Noble is still a bit above me.

 

[CivMonger]

I've noticed this too, but I don't beleive the settings the computer players are on matters, they work off your difficulty level. It would seem illogical to have it otherwise, but I dont know definitavely, so I could be wrong.

 

[ori]

welcome to CFC

you definitely cannot change the AI difficulty levels ingame (neither in custom game nor in play now) since their bonusses are governed by the level you play at... You can change the CIVHandicapInfo.xml though if you want to change those settings.

 

[Bagpuss]

Hi Sublime. You're under the same misapprehension I was when I started playing. As it turns out the AI isn't any more or less clever at one difficulty level than another. When the player chooses an easy difficuly level (below Noble) they get some helpful bonuses, on levels above Noble the AI gets bonuses. At Noble everything's square. Hope that makes things clearer.