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Scaling AI Difficulty

Ever find the earlygame to be a great level of difficulty, but then you level out pretty early and it just becomes a tedious slog?

This mod seeks to change that, by giving any AI faction small, stacking advantages every 10 turns, up to turn 100. AT turn 1, they have no extra buffs, and function as normal. By turn 100 these buffs will have become quite large, allowing AI to maintain the pace against a player even with their poor building choices, and questionable battle AI.

How does it work?

Every 10 turns, a script will fire off that gives any AI controlled factions small, stacking buffs to their:
Upkeep (30% by turn 100),
Growth (70 by turn 100)
recruitment costs (40% by turn 100),
recruit rank (2 by turn 100)
recruitment slots (3 by turn 100),
recruit duration (-3 turns by turn 100)
maximum armies (5 by turn 100),
significant numbers of unit caps for tomb kings, beastmen and chaos dwarves (10ish high tier, 20 mid tier, 40 low tier)
recruitment replenishment for warriors of chaos - (300% of base values by turn 100)
recruitment cap for warriors of chaos (20 by turn 100)
building time (50% by turn 100),
building costs (75% by turn 100),
lord/hero recruit rank (15 by turn 100)
spell cast range (50m by turn 100),
spell cooldown (30% by turn 100),
minimum winds of magic reserve capacity (25 by turn 100),
reserve/turn (6/turn by turn 100)
an ability that gives all casters spell mastery, reserve recharge rate and recharge rate (lasts 300s, gives up to 1 reserve per 2 sec, 400% reserve recharge rate and 50% spell mastery by turn 100)
ambush chance (25% by turn 100)
ambush defence chance (25% by turn 100)
research rate (200% by turn 100).

At the same time, human players recieve small debuffs to their public order (-8 by turn 100) and diplomacy (-80 by turn 100) with all races.

Lastly, the AI recieves a slight reduction to their autoresolve potential, meaning they will value their own units slightly less than previously when it comes to matching their armies, so on average you will have larger ai armies to deal with, and fewer easy battles where it feels like the AI is feeding you money.

Should be compatible with any other mods, the benefits will stack however, and if an AI gets above 100% upkeep reduction they get pretty stupid, with one settlement factions able to create literally infinite armies, causing both a slog in gameplay and a lot of extra work for your PC, be warned.

THIS MOD IS SAVE GAME COMPATIBLE, BUT YOU WILL LOSE A SMALL BUFF FOR EVERY 10 TURNS ALREADY PLAYED

"The forces of darkness had descended, strongholds lost one by one against the oncoming tide of destruction. They were all that was left, one last beacon of light, the best of them were arrayed along the walls in ranks ten deep, thousands of soldiers to their number, but they all knew it wasn’t enough.

The horde arrayed against them was without number, darkened the sky and the ground itself with forms hideous and hulking. They would die this day, but it would be a death they could be proud of."