Difference between top three difficulties?

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I setup a game with nine AIs and then flicked between the difficulties. As far as I could see the top three difficulties all used the top AI difficulty for every one of those opponents, so what's the difference between the top three difficulty levels??
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The AI gets to cheat on the higher levels with bonsuses you don't get, and that they normally don't have.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
rtfm
the manual says (German manual page 57)
intelligent: 100% economy, some ai-algorythms (tries to beat human tactics and such things)
genius: 125% economy, all ai-algorythms
uncredible: 200% economy, all ai-algorythms

The %-values aren't +100%, but 100% so they don't get any bonuses on 100%

@Daemon Jax
the ai doesn't cheat the manual says:
One problem, experience gamers often encounter is, does the ai cheat? The answer depends on how you define cheating.

So it's no cheating but defenition. In other words: Simply political expression for cheating
Does anyone know how high stardocks diplomatic skills are?!
The Political Machine 2024
Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The question is about the top three difficulties, NOT the top three AI settings. Masochistic through Suicidal all use all incredible AIs, so I have no idea if there is any difference.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The English manual says bright evaluates most knorn human tactics, intelligent expertly evaluates tactics, and above that it just gets economy bonus's
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes, I believe the difference is in how much of an additional bonus they start with.

Consider it a case of the harder difficulties representing your race starting a lot further behind in the race... so effectively its just a bigger handicap the others are given.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The bonuses for the AIs are theoretically determined by the AI level, but the final three difficulty levels use exactly the same AI level (as do the bottom two levels IIRC), and I can find no documentation on the difference between them.