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When starting a new game, is it possible to play on a certain difficulty level while setting an opponents intelligence level to different level.
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Reply #1 Top
yea, you can manually adjust an opponents intelligence level, although its either doing it manually and the difficulty level changes to reflect the overall difficulty you are creating or just go and change the difficulty level and the intelligence changes accordingly.

in short, yes you can manually change the opponents intelligence to different levels in a new game.
Reply #2 Top
Difficulty level IS intelligence level. If you change them manually, you automatically change the difficulty level. They are mutually exclusive: either you pick individual intelligence, or overall level. Not both.
Reply #3 Top
Is there a list somewhere of how all that works along with the numbers (for advantages etc) that reflects 1.2 changes
Reply #4 Top
They are mutually exclusive: either you pick individual intelligence, or overall level. Not both.


Technically speaking because you either pick individual intelligence or overall level they are not mutually exclusive, they are dependent. Mutually exclusive means they have nothing to do with each other, dependent means they have everything to do with each other so one can't be changed without the other changing automatically.

Don't take offence to this or anything, by the way. I'm not harping or anything, just pointing out that you used the wrong word so please don't hate me.
Reply #5 Top
grammar police!

j/k

I wish you could specify in detail the individual settings for each AI and overall difficulty level, they seem to say in the manual that overall difficuly level is independent of AI difficulty levels, but in practice changes made to one will affect the other (usually).
Reply #6 Top
grammar police!


It's not my fault! All through university I loved pointing out errors to English Studies students in their work since nothing is more humiliating to an English major than having errors in their writing pointed out to them by a science student.
Reply #7 Top
Don't take offence to this or anything, by the way. I'm not harping or anything, just pointing out that you used the wrong word so please don't hate me.


Blast, true. I was thinking mutually exclusive in terms of the fact that you can only operate one. They are dependant, but I was thinking along the lines of "if you change one, the other is ignored".

Reply #8 Top
I was thinking mutually exclusive in terms of the fact that you can only operate one. They are dependant, but I was thinking along the lines of "if you change one, the other is ignored".


Lol. Don't worry. That is one of the most common mistakes made by students in both logic and probability courses which is why I picked up on it: I've had so much experience correcting that same error.