difficulty

[JokerJace]

Hello, I always wondered and now I am going to ask. What does the difficulty modifier do in a MP game what effect does it have if it is uneven among the players? Thanks in advance.

 

[Securion]

I think the idea is that the AI will be at the lowest chosen level in certain areas, like military AI and gold bonus.
Lets say you have 3 human players, choosing prince, prince and chieftain levels.
The AI should then be at chieftain level in military and gold bonus, but stay at prince level in happiness and so on.

In reality though it doesn't matter since the AI is completely broken in MP. It can't even contact a human player...

 

[JokerJace]

I saw the CS spawn units like crazy on a certain level. Is there maybe some official text or something that describes this whole topic a bit more detailed?

 

[The_J]

There are 2 parts of the difficulty:
- changes which apply to the humans
- changes which apply to the AI
(list)

In MP, the AI is on the level of the human player with the lowest difficulty. For the humans, their own choosen difficulty applies (AFAIK).

 

[JokerJace]

There are 2 parts of the difficulty:
- changes which apply to the humans
- changes which apply to the AI
(list)

In MP, the AI is on the level of the human player with the lowest difficulty. For the humans, their own choosen difficulty applies (AFAIK).

That's EXACTLY what I was looking for, thanks.