Undocumented feature

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The difficulty (not AI) levels of the game are completely undocumented. Okay, there is a brief line in the manual about "they change the AI difficulties as one" or some such, but it doesn't explain what the difference between the bottom two and top three difficulties is, since there they don't change the AI intelligence levels and there are more difficulty levels than AI intelligence.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think it's just an aggregation of all your AI levels put together. e.g. if the average of the AI's is Intelligent, the difficulty is Tough. If it's greater than Intelligent, the difficulty is Painful. And then if you select the "Random AI levels" option in the beta, you can select a difficulty and then the game will select AI levels for you. Not sure, though.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Just click on a computer player and it shows what difficulty they're playing at. The difference in AI levels is documented.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Maybe you guys should read his post. He is talking about ranges places (bottom two and top three GAME difficulties) where the AI difficulty DOESN'T change. He's pretty clear that he is talking about the difference between AI difficulty/intelligence level and game difficulty.

Anyhow, as far as I know, the difference is the starting resources (such as money) the AI has.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
And bonus's, they do list that kina of stuff tho. They tell you exactly what bonus's they get after intelligent. The AI doesn't improve after intelligent but it does get more lucky and get higher bonus's.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The manual suggests that the AI levels are the difference in bonuses, it's disappointing that AI levels are so well documented, but difficulty isn't touched upon even though for things like the campaign it's the ONLY way to see difficulty.