In this specific thread I would like to know your opinion on the challenge in the mid- to late game (lets say 110+ turns). Let me say my experience. I play as Arverni (Galic Confederation for now) and I am about 120th turn right now. There is one thing I noticed few days ago, and that is quite huge negative points in diplomacy when you reach higher levels of imperium. It almost looked like a boring game, I got 3 millitary allies (+4 client states), enough money and great income, conquered most of western and middle Europe, Spain and entire Italy and expanding to Greece. But suddenly I noticed that almost rest of the world hates me, because of -50 in diplomacy for level 6 imperium. Factions started cancelling their non-aggression packs, trade agreements and it appears that greaaaaaat war (me+my allies vs. eastern world dominated by Seleucids) lays in the near future My income got hampered and although I have powerfull armies and allies that loves me, my potential enemies (and they are great in numbers) got load of full stacks armies on their territory. It is going to be real mess. I started this thread because of hearing people lamenting on the low difficulty in late time period of their campaigns, but as I said, my experience is somehow different. Just for the clarification, I play on hard/very hard difficulty, so maybe on normal diff. there are smaller negative effects. Let me know your experiences please.