How Difficulty Bonuses work for AI

[Txurce]

Yes that helps, thank you!

But you could interpret what the phrase means, "The difficulty in the Community Patch is unchanged, but the rest of Vox Populi changes difficulty greatly, as described below." This isn't a very clear statement to me. G often says that such-and-such a difficulty in Vanilla is like such-and-such a different difficulty in Vox Populi, so a more clear statement of what is going on would be nice.

What I think he means is that Community Patch and Vox Populi aren't the same thing.

 

[ElliotS]

Yes that helps, thank you!

But you could interpret what the phrase means, "The difficulty in the Community Patch is unchanged, but the rest of Vox Populi changes difficulty greatly, as described below." This isn't a very clear statement to me. G often says that such-and-such a difficulty in Vanilla is like such-and-such a different difficulty in Vox Populi, so a more clear statement of what is going on would be nice.

It means that the vanilla difficulty formula's are used on the community patch, but Vox Populi overhauls them with that page's formula.

Community patch is just the first module of the mod, with almost no changes to vanilla except for massively improved AI. (Also a few others that are needed like siege units not needing to set up because AI couldn't 'get it'.)

 

[Rekk]

I thought A was the early handicap and C the late one, but its A that gets the most bonus with era scaling...so I'm confused.

Standard quadratic formula: A* x² + B* x + C = D.

 

[Gidoza]

It means that the vanilla difficulty formula's are used on the community patch, but Vox Populi overhauls them with that page's formula.

Community patch is just the first module of the mod, with almost no changes to vanilla except for massively improved AI. (Also a few others that are needed like siege units not needing to set up because AI couldn't 'get it'.)

Ah ok, I think I follow.

 

[Stalker0]

Standard quadratic formula: A* x² + B* x + C = D.

As g mentioned, the issue is the variable names are backward, that’s why it was confusing

 

[Rekk]

As g mentioned, the issue is the variable names are backward, that’s why it was confusing

Ah, I see what part of the code you were talking about now. My mistake.