Difficulty Levels

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Sorry if this is explained elsewere. What do the difficulty levels mean. In the manual it states exactly what percentage of the ai industry is used, and how "difficult" the AI is for every level of difficulty. However, the leves are not like in the manual.

We have: cakewalk, easy, simple, geginner, normal, chalenging, tough, painful, crippling, masochistic, obscene, and suicidal.

Hmmmm
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'd like to second this request. Anyone in the know care to chime in?
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If you start a new game and change these values you'll note the AI level changing. Tough means every AI plays at Intelligent for example. However, I have been unable to find a difference between the last three levels (and the first two? I forget)
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
See the wiki entry on difficulty levels. In addition to modifying the AI's intelligence, the lowest and highest difficulty levels lower/raise the AI's economy and production.

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Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, the difficulty level is very odd. I would like some official responses as well. As far as I can tell, it's like this:

Difficulty ---------- AI Intelligence
- Cakewalk -------- Fool (Basic AI, with their economy ran at 10%)
- Easy --------------- Fool (Above) and Beginner (Basic AI, with their economy ran at 25%)
- Simple ------------ Beginner
- Beginner --------- Sub-normal (Basic AI, with their economy ran at 50%)
- Normal ----------- Normal (Basic AI functions + Level 1 functions, with their economy ran at 75%)
- Challenging ----- Bright (Basic AI functions + Level 1 and 2 functions, with their economy ran at 100%)
- Tough ------------- Intelligent (Best AI - Basic function + level 1, 2, and 3 - with their economy ran at 100%)
- Painful ------------ Gifted (??? AI, no record of this AI, but it's probably somewhere between Intelligent and Genius)
- Criplling ---------- Genius (Best AI, with their economy ran at 125%)
- Masochistic ----- Incredible (Best AI, with their econmy ran at 200%)
- Obsene ----------- Incredible
- Suicidal ----------- Incredible


So the question to be asked is, what the heck is "Painful" and the "Gifted" AI?, and what is the difference between Suicidal and Masochistic? Personally, I have not seen any difference between the last three levels (IE: any strategy that works on Masochistic will work in Suicial - but those strategies are overpowering anyways, so it's difficult to say), and as for the "Gifted" AI, I have no clue, I can't tell the difference between them and "Intelligent". I suspect it might be their economy is ran at 110% or something base on the pattern, but it's just too small to notice any real difference.

(Let's hope the chart looks somewhat okay... )