List of known Ai/human player "cheats" e.g. kings purse etc.?

[edders]

Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone coud provide me with a list of all those 'tricks' that are provided to Ai players to give them an advantage over human ones. I'm aware of course of the massive King's purse human players get, and the 'auto-gift' of money that AI factions get depending on the difficulty (and thus easy to delete from the scripts).

However I've also heard Ai generals and agents have some way of gaining command/espionage points at a faster rate than your own. Does anyone know if this can be disabled, and if there are any other game mechanics that give either human or AI players advantages over each other?

The reason I ask is that I'd like to mod the game so I can play campaign mode on very hard without the enemy getting massive bonuses (and hopefully not being insanely agressive and constantly lowering relations with me, although I don't know if any of the AI/dipomacy mods are able to take care of this).

[Augustus Lucifer]

Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone coud provide me with a list of all those 'tricks' that are provided to Ai players to give them an advantage over human ones. I'm aware of course of the massive King's purse human players get, and the 'auto-gift' of money that AI factions get depending on the difficulty (and thus easy to delete from the scripts).

However I've also heard Ai generals and agents have some way of gaining command/espionage points at a faster rate than your own. Does anyone know if this can be disabled, and if there are any other game mechanics that give either human or AI players advantages over each other?

The reason I ask is that I'd like to mod the game so I can play campaign mode on very hard without the enemy getting massive bonuses (and hopefully not being insanely agressive and constantly lowering relations with me, although I don't know if any of the AI/dipomacy mods are able to take care of this).

Why not just play on medium then... :hmmm:? What's the point of Very Hard mode if the aspects which make it "Very Hard" are removed? Perhaps I'm missing the point here, but either way, it isn't listed anywhere what the AI get as a bonus, that part is hardcoded, just like any other difficulty benefits, unless I missed it somewhere in the CAI. You can try and counteract it with adding scripts to reduce the kings purse of the AI but to my knowledge there isn't a way to check for this. You should PM xeryx and ask him if you're really interested in knowing.

That being said, again, what's the motivation for VH campaign AI that performs like medium campaign AI..?

Cheers,
Augustus

[edders]

Unless I'm very much mistaken, VH on campaign mode uses its' agents to a much greater extent - assassination attempts, for example, and the princess-general-stealing trick, which I see in VH but very rarely in E/M. That, along with finding out how to turn off the unfair advantages the AI generals and agents appear to have. If I could simply set medium to actually have the AI actually use its' agents for anything other than repeated failed bribery attempts.