I told you I have tried EVERYTHING!!!! including what you said... when I'm setting the individual one's, the bottom one is changing too without me touching it automatically!!

delta leader is right serptico you can set them seperatly, dont mess with the bottom button, unless you have found a bug it it (havent played 1.2 b2 much yet so have no idea)

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make sure you go through and look at all the check boxes and opponent settings. you might have something checked off that you dont know of

How do I know?? once the game starts I go to the foreign policy screen under miscelaneous for the individual races and their you find the intelligence of that race. Underneath intelligence, it tells you the level; normal, bright etc....... Now I'm assuming the AI is playing exactly it's own intelligence level whatever it is, but if it is, it's certainly not showing it in the foreign policy screen under miscelaneous and intelligence... So in any case... it's a bug. Because If I set the individual difficulty settings for each race before the game, I also expect to see it after the game and should act like it!!

Were suppose to be able to set the difficulty settings individually and once the game starts they should all be able to act like whatever settings we gaved them. Again, instead we should have the bottom difficulty setting locked in place or disabled preferably so that when we customize the individual ones we don't have to worry about the bottom one overiding the individual ones when the game starts?? The problem is that even if we don't touch the bottom one when were setting the individual ones, it is still overiding them. For example, if I set 4 races to normal and the fifth one to bright, the main difficulty setting becomes challenging all of a sudden and overides it !? So, when the game starts they all become bright players. Now, I assume that they behave exactly like bright players when the game starts which wasn't my intentions.

Thank you Stardock.