Stop the AI from getting free cash.

[jo_dus]

I like to play slow and deliberate in my 4.1 games. I enjoy strategically blockading port and other fun ways of keeping the AI around but under control. I really don't like the AI getting free money at every turn, they need to earn it like me. How do I turn this off? Thanks.

[Valdamar]

Play on easy.

[Mjr Phil]

So adding infinite money resources to selected (not all, at least) factions and making diplomacy a joke is the way of raising campaign difficulty level?
Any other brilliant, fair and innovative methods AI uses to improve difficulty?

[tup]

You don't have to like it and there's probably no one liking it, but it's the most efficient way to increase difficulty. Everyone wants an AI that behaves rational in diplomacy, takes advantages in war, acts intelligent in battle, and what not... but it's simply not possible for the AI to catch up with human intelligence.
Disabling the advantages the AI gets, starting with money, going further to generals and city growth rates, would make the game more than extremely boring. But that's probably just me.

[Mjr Phil]

It surely is the easiest. What's the point of using economics (e.g. block ports) against AI if it magically gets money from the sky? It just cripples the game. More movement points and faster growth rates don't bother me that much, since results can be predicted (e.g. how far can an army travel in one turn).
As for alternatives to AI, seems like xeryx did REALLY good job in XAI working WITH the system, not around it. That's the way we should go. I'll give it a try as soon as I start a new campaign.

[tup]

I think I tried xeryx and in the first few turns everyone turned on everyone and my allies on me. Not my kind of style, others may like it.

[TzuDevil]

So adding infinite money resources to selected (not all, at least) factions and making diplomacy a joke is the way of raising campaign difficulty level?
Any other brilliant, fair and innovative methods AI uses to improve difficulty?

Want the AI to stop getting money boosts? Just modify it out.... It's very easy to do.

Cheers!

[Turbo]

Disabling the money script is counter productive and doesn't do anything.

1) Stainless steel's money script ONLY gives the AI money when the AI is in debt. Once it is out of debt the money script stops.

2) The reason the AI swims in cash is because it constructs buildings much slower than the human player. It also dislikes disbanding units. This keeps the AI in risk of going into debt. Once in debt, the AI has no idea how to get out of debt.

3) On harder levels the AI is hardcoded to get $$ so play on easy if you want the AI to have less money.

[renegade765]

I hate to moan here...but I despise the money script with a passion. (I will attempt to mod it out but I suck with these things) As an example, my friend and I played a hotseat me Kiev him Novo we double teamed Lithiunia...got them down to one city. Then from one city they built 5 full Army Stacks. It took hours to defeat them. This always seems to happen and easy is too easy thus I stopped playing Stainless Steel.

[strife1013]

I like it because it makes it harder to destory a fraction!

[messenger42]

The AI always goes bankrupt even there is a money script to help them out, They've just busy building up Citidel, Castle, Large, Huge City without garrisioning them properly only for the human player to easily capture these castles and cities and use it for his own advantage without spending his own money to build their own cities, castle. So the AI needs as much money as we can give them if we want any challange to this game.

[BigJake]

if you want the script gone just follow these instructions...

1. Go to your imperial campaign folder and open the campaign_script.txt file.
2. press ctrl+F and type "MONEY SCRIPT".
3. delete everything under that heading until you get to the "FALL OF SETTLEMENTS" heading

if you want this done to the late campaign as well then go into the "custom" folder instead of the "imperial_campaign" folder.

[jo_dus]

if you want the script gone just follow these instructions...

1. Go to your imperial campaign folder and open the campaign_script.txt file.
2. press ctrl+F and type "MONEY SCRIPT".
3. delete everything under that heading until you get to the "FALL OF SETTLEMENTS" heading

if you want this done to the late campaign as well then go into the "custom" folder instead of the "imperial_campaign" folder.

Thank you BigJake. I will try this. I'll change it back if I don't like it, but thank you nonetheless.

[tanathos]

if you want the script gone just follow these instructions...

1. Go to your imperial campaign folder and open the campaign_script.txt file.
2. press ctrl+F and type "MONEY SCRIPT".
3. delete everything under that heading until you get to the "FALL OF SETTLEMENTS" heading

if you want this done to the late campaign as well then go into the "custom" folder instead of the "imperial_campaign" folder.

Thank you.