Hostility of IPs scaling with difficulty

[WillK96]

I've found that of the last 4-5 games I've started (all on Deity, all since 1.2.5), that IPs are about 75% hostile. Does anyone know if this scales with game difficulty? It would make sense but I can't find anything in the difficulty level description regarding the likelihood of spawning hostile IPs (as opposed to neutral IPs).

 

[stealth_nsk]

I've found that of the last 4-5 games I've started (all on Deity, all since 1.2.5), that IPs are about 75% hostile. Does anyone know if this scales with game difficulty? It would make sense but I can't find anything in the difficulty level description regarding the likelihood of spawning hostile IPs (as opposed to neutral IPs).

On Immortal also most of the IPs are hostile.

 

[WillK96]

On Immortal also most of the IPs are hostile.

I figured. It just seems like a sudden shift post 1.2.5. Before I was experiencing maybe a 60-40 hostile/neutral split. Now its 75-25. During the first month or so I played on Viceroy and Sovereign while learning the game and believe it was closer to 50-50 or even 40-60.

 

[MutilationWave]

Agreed. Anecdotally I just started a game and my capital is surrounded by four hostiles. Always deity. Anecdata for sure but I've noticed the same phenomenon of increased hostility. 75%, maybe more were hostile on the 25 IP map I just played before getting 1.3.0

 

[TheMarshmallowBear]

As far as I know, without adjusting the actual hostility value, each independent has a pre-set hostility (that means Hattusa will always be hostile, no matter what), however, it's not out of the realm of possibility you are getting more hostile independents either way.

 

[TomSpren]

I was thinking something was off. I've been playing mostly with friendly, but I recently have been playing more on normal.

 

[WillK96]

As far as I know, without adjusting the actual hostility value, each independent has a pre-set hostility (that means Hattusa will always be hostile, no matter what), however, it's not out of the realm of possibility you are getting more hostile independents either way.

This is certainly true, but a host of IPs are set to "neutral" (as opposed to hostile or friendly). The hostile/friendly split of these neutral IPs seems to be affected by the difficulty level, at least anecdotally.