AI difficulty levels have strange or no effect

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Hi

 

noticed something strange in ver 1.7 (without mercs) that Ive been playing for a while.

 

I create a random galaxy and set galaxy difficulty to genious. However I use the opponent override and set all opponents down to normal and I disable tech brokering.

I also cheat - played the same set up from start with save file turn 1 so I know all the planets and can route colonizers to them immediatly. I then go for research on the colonies.

In spite of this after a while all the other major races that I meet have basicall 2 levels of research more than I in all trees as well as more ships/bases/money. My conclusion is that either the manual opponent difficulty override doesnt work and that I am limited to normal galaxies or that there is something very strange going on. Can someone please help me with a way to play against normal opponents in a tough galaxy? or perhaps just even explain what it is Im experiancing.

 

BR

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

The galaxy difficulty is actually the default AI setting.  If you change all the individual AI settings, you have eliminated most or all of the effects of the galaxy setting.  

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Does not the galaxy setting at all influence the number of pirates and their behaviour?

 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

No, there is a separate setting for the frequency of pirates and nothing that affects their behavior.

 

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Regardless of difficulty, the Ai empires trade tech to each other with only volume of techs in mind.  They're not careful like humans are.  They'll trade anything to anyone.  Pretty much every game I play, by turn 150 or so, all the Ai empires have traded each other most of their tech.  (tech brokering disabled).  

Think of the way you trade.  When you get a tech you want to trade, you trade it to each civ you have met.  Assuming you get 1 tech in exchange and there's 7 opponents, you've researched 1 tech and gained 7 more.  Now imagine if you didn't care what you traded and did that every chance you got.  You get a lot of tech pretty quick, so it *looks* like you're a research monster, but it's just an illusion :)