default difficulties

troodon · Post by **troodon** » January 17th, 2007, 12:58 am

When I load saved games, such as in multiplayers or campaigns, the description of the save is that the difficulty is medium. How can I change that to hard, so the ai is harder to beat in multiplayers?

Inigo Montoya · Post by **Inigo Montoya** » January 17th, 2007, 1:22 am

You can't. If you want a tougher MP game, either play human enemies or write a better AI script (somebody needs to!)

romnajin · Post by **romnajin** » January 17th, 2007, 1:32 am

One way to do it without actually making them smarter is to give them much more starting gold(and income) than you, which allows them to have more units, even if they don't use them any more smartly.

Post by **Yogibear** » January 17th, 2007, 9:05 am

The level of the AI is always controlled by increasing the number or quality of enemies (via starting gold and recruiting list). There is no way yet to make the AI smarter. Have a look at a campaign scenario config file to get an idea how it is done.

joshudson · Post by **joshudson** » January 17th, 2007, 7:43 pm

The "difficulty" field is only used in campaign WML. The ai doesn't even look at it. A multiplayer scenario should not contain any difficulty-reading WML as there is no way to set it.

Inigo Montoya · Post by **Inigo Montoya** » January 17th, 2007, 7:53 pm

Not quite true, you could select in various ways after the beginning of the scenario.
In The Fall Of Trent (I think), for example, at the start of the scenario you get control of a Peasant, which can move to one of four (labelled) locations. Which location it moves to, determines the scenario's difficulty. The Peasant is then switched to an AI side, and the scenario proper begins.
But it is true that there is no external difficulty control, other than the AI's gold reserve and income.