I want to create a mod to handle my current biggest problem with the game:
- either I set AI loyalty bonus so high I need to "cheat" using large map and very high wildlife setting to delay contact with AI, giving me time to build up
- or I set lower AI bonus and meet AI earlier, to basically run them over after struggling with first wave of enemies...

There's no middle point - either AI is too strong in the beginning, or too weak after first fighting/couple turns.

As loyalty bonus seems to be the basic difficulty affecting setting, I came up with idea of increasing AI's bonus with time.

Any suggestions on how could I achieve that?

It would be best if I could create some trait, for cities maybe, which bonus would change depending on turn number for example, however I didn't see any condition etc. using turn numbers. Only quests seem to be using those.

Other idea is to connect it to other parameter that increases with time.
Maybe cities maxHealth? It seems to increase constantly with number of buildings build, however I didn't see it used in any conditions block (besides hitpointsFraction, but that obviosuly wouldn't work here).

Or maybe there's some global player parameter like number of units, or researched technologies, or... that I could tie to loyalty bonus increase?


Other idea I have would be to add technologies increasing loyalty on each tier, however it wouldn't guarantyy AI actually researching those...

Any ideas are welcome :)