, but what does increasing the difficulty actually do in terms of the games mechanics? Some games, like C&C3, increasing the difficulty setting does nothing to the AI routines, it only increases unit production and resources available (i.e. they have an army of 40 units by the time you've built 10). Some games alter their difficulty by adding economic penalties to the human player.
What happens with BOTF’s difficulty increases?
The reason why I ask is i've been playing on Ultimate Dominion Mod 3.0.0, Hard setting for about an hour now. I usually play BOTF on Impossible. It seems to me that the only thing that appears different is how quickly the major powers become hostile towards you.
In ‘Impossible’ it's near impossible to get anything other than a friendship treaty with the major powers. They make affiliation treaties (and even alliances!) amongst them really quickly, but all are hostile/declare war against you (started four games now over last three days, and each time after 50 turns they are all against me).
On ‘Hard’ I’ve noticed that they don’t turn hostile on me as quickly, but its still appears near impossible to have a friendly ally. Does increasing the difficulty make the major powers more hostile to you?
Sorry if this is covered on another post. I’ve done a forum search but didn’t see anything. Thanks
