Very Hard script question

[Naja]

I'd like to be able to set the campaign difficulty to "Very Hard" without my relations with other factions continually declining.

Is there anything in the script or other text files I can alter to change this?

I'm talking specifically about Kingdoms.

[SigniferOne]

Yes it's very easy. Go into faction_relations, and look for "normalize" (or "normalise"). Take out the little snippet which tries to bring global relations down, and it won't happen.

[Naja]

I just changed the entry to this:

Trigger 0095_Update_Very_Hard_Difficulty
WhenToTest FactionTurnStart

Condition CampaignDifficulty = very_hard

FactionStanding exclude_factions { } normalise 0.0 50


The number that comes after "normalize" is key, I've found. In all the other difficulty levels, it's 0.0. On easy difficulty, it's "0.5 50", which I assume means that your faction relations actually grow a little bit turn by turn. It's only with very hard difficulty that you lose reputation per turn (hence -0.5).

Sound correct?

[Quark]

Naja
What that line says is that on very hard the your relations with other factions will tend towards neutral, -1 being very bad, 1 being good. The smaller the number at the end the quicker they change, as its a divisor.

So it is harder for you to maintain good relations with factions. At the top of the file is where the change points are eg

relations_improved_thresholds
{
0.25
0.5
0.8
}

Personally I would have said that that was a generous setting.