How can I turn on flexible difficulty mid-game?

[Acerbus]

Hey, I'm currently playing a huge snail game with ruthless AI on Monarch, but I find it a bit too uninteresting, as in 500BC I am already 100 points further than the best AI (which is ~200 points further than the second-best AI).

So, to make it a bit more challenging, is there a way to turn on flexible difficulty mid-game, or, failing that, is there a way to just change the difficulty level?

 

[Afforess]

There will be in 1.73, I've already added it as on option in the BUG Panels (the ladybug icon).

You can do it the hard way in earlier versions; here's how. First, in your Civilization4.ini (found in your Documents/My Games/Beyond the Sword folder), set the value of cheatcodes to "chipotle". (Yes, the Firaxis dev's have a sense of humor...)

Then, load up your game and press SHIFT-~. It should open a console window. Make sure that is says "Python XXX" at the bottom. There are 2 console windows, but only 1 is the one you want.

Now, type gc.getGame().setOption(GameOptionTypes.GAMEOPTION_FLEXIBLE_DIFFICULTY, True) into the console, and press enter. Press SHIFT-~ to close the window again. Save your game. Turn cheatcodes off, and reload the save. If you check the victory screen, you will see that Flexible Difficulty is now enabled.

 

[Acerbus]

Ok, I set cheatcodes to 'chipotle' and tired hitting SHIFT and ~ in the game, but nothing happened Could this be due to my non-standard keyboard layout? I normally need to hold down shift to get the tilde.

 

[Afforess]

Yeah, it would be be because of that. The correct key for non-American keyboards is whatever key is left of the 1, I think. Not sure though.

 

[Acerbus]

Yeah, I tried pressing the left-of-1 key (which works for opening console in most games) and shift, but it did nothing :/ I don't suppose 1.73beta3 will be save-compatible with 1.73beta2?

 

[Afforess]

Yeah, I tried pressing the left-of-1 key (which works for opening console in most games) and shift, but it did nothing :/ I don't suppose 1.73beta3 will be save-compatible with 1.73beta2?

Not a chance.

Anyway, the only other key that might open the console is the '`' key. If that doesn't work, just try using SHIFT with random, non-letter keys.

 

[Acerbus]

Yay, it worked! Thanks for the help! For some strange reason, the key I needed was 'ü' :S

Alright, now I'm gonna have to invade Greece, before the starts hitting the fan. Which is gonna be hard, considering I have only 0.6 times their military power

 

[MessageMan]

Is there a way to simply adjust the difficulty level mid-game?

Edit: Didn't realize this was in the RoM subforum. Is there a way that'll work in regular civ?