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Smooth AI Difficulty

Removes the significant starting bonuses the AI receive from higher difficulties, while increasing the yield and experience bonuses the AI receives from higher difficulties, allowing AI difficulty to be more meaningful as the game goes on. As a comparison, here is a table showing the bonuses the AI gets on higher difficulties in the base game:

And here is a table showing the bonuses the AI receives at higher difficulties in this mod:

Lower Difficulties:

This mod also changes the lower difficulty settings to be a perfect mirror of the higher difficulty settings, except with the bonuses applying to the player, instead of the AI, e.g. on Warlord Difficulty the player will receive all the same bonuses that the AI does on King. Where this should come in most handy is in multiplayer, allowing you to provide a sizable handicap to less skilled players in order to keep games even.


The bonus gold from barbarian camps given to the player on lower difficulties & an effect that lowered the AI's opinion of the player on higher difficulties has been removed. Finally, city states no longer spawn with additional units on higher difficulties, but do start with 1 extra unit in general.