Game is too easy even on Ridiculous/Ridiculous difficulty

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Taking a break from the game until they patch it a bit I think.

There's potential here for sure, but the AI seems to be totally nonfunctional right now, and I've run into bugs in pretty much every single area of the game.

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

Ridicious isn't actually as hard (in some ways) as Extreme.

 

Program Files\Stardock Games\Elemental\data\English\CoreDifficulties.xml

<AIDifficultyLevel InternalName="AIDiffLvl_Extreme">
    <DisplayName>Extreme</DisplayName>
    <AIEconomicRatio>1.5</AIEconomicRatio>
    <AIFOWCheat>0</AIFOWCheat>
    <AIHPRatio>1.00</AIHPRatio>
    <AIStartingFundsRatio>5.0</AIStartingFundsRatio>
    <AISovereignPointsRatio>1.0</AISovereignPointsRatio>
    <AISovereignHPRatios>1.5</AISovereignHPRatios>
    <AIIntelligenceFactor>1.0</AIIntelligenceFactor>
    <AIUsesCombatMagic>1</AIUsesCombatMagic>
  </AIDifficultyLevel>
  <AIDifficultyLevel InternalName="AIDiffLvl_Ridiculous">
    <DisplayName>Ridiculous</DisplayName>
    <AIEconomicRatio>2.0</AIEconomicRatio>
    <AIFOWCheat>1</AIFOWCheat>
    <AIHPRatio>1.20</AIHPRatio>
    <AIStartingFundsRatio>10.0</AIStartingFundsRatio>
    <AISovereignPointsRatio>1.0</AISovereignPointsRatio>
    <AISovereignHPRatios>1.0</AISovereignHPRatios>
    <AIIntelligenceFactor>1.0</AIIntelligenceFactor>
    <AIUsesCombatMagic>1</AIUsesCombatMagic>
  </AIDifficultyLevel>

 

You want it harder? Replace the "AIDiffLvl_Ridiculous" with:

  <AIDifficultyLevel InternalName="AIDiffLvl_Ridiculous">
    <DisplayName>Ridiculous</DisplayName>
    <AIEconomicRatio>20.0</AIEconomicRatio>
    <AIFOWCheat>1</AIFOWCheat>
    <AIHPRatio>2.0</AIHPRatio>
    <AIStartingFundsRatio>200.0</AIStartingFundsRatio>
    <AISovereignPointsRatio>2.0</AISovereignPointsRatio>
    <AISovereignHPRatios>20.0</AISovereignHPRatios>
    <AIIntelligenceFactor>1.0</AIIntelligenceFactor>
    <AIUsesCombatMagic>1</AIUsesCombatMagic>
  </AIDifficultyLevel>

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Giving it huge multipliers won't help with it's behavior right now - diplomatically it's unintelligent, and it isn't nearly aggressive enough when you are weak to be a serious threat.

I'm sure it'll be improved with some patches, but right now it's mostly a sandbox to play around with the various game mechanics.

Also I didn't see any use for any tactical spells whatsoever. The cost of in-combat spells vs the number of fights you get into and the rate of mana regen makes them incredibly unappealing as weapons.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah I'd really like to see more aggression. Maybe also an option that lets you up aggression without necessarily upping difficulty, Civ IV and Alpha Centauri both had that.