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What effects do the various difficultly levels have?

Campaign Difficulty

The Campaign difficulty is set on the Game Options Menu (updating the "difficulty" setting in config) and has following effects:

These effects only apply to Campaign mode.

In Skirmish and Multiplayer games, the difficulty for each AI (computer player) can be set independently via the Player Setup ScreenPanel.

Different AIs respond differently to the difficulty setting, for example:

Nexus AI will cheat more on higher difficulty levels, giving itself more power boosts and random research gains. On "Easy", however, it will not cheat.
Semperfi AI compltely ignores difficulty setting.
NullBot AI follows a non-specialised research path on "Easy" setting, compared to adaptive research path on harder levels.

AI's set to "Insane" difficulty gain additional benefits that are coded in to Warzone:

Their oil production is doubled
They lose fewer map-defined buildings in relation to the baseType (see Player Initialisation Rules for full details).

Your scripts can determine the difficulty level from the difficulty global variable.

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Thanks to NoQ for providing this info in the forums!

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difficulty – determine difficulty level applied to your script
playerData – determine difficulty level applied to other scripts
Difficulty level constants:
- EASY – Easy difficulty
- MEDIUM – Medium difficulty
- HARD – Hard difficulty
- INSANE – Insane difficulty (not applicable to Campaign mode)
Player Initialisation Rules – applies base type setting differently for Insane AI players.
powerType – doubled for Insane AI players
Game Options Menu – allows Campaign difficulty to be set
- config – stores Campaign difficulty setting
Player Setup Panel – allows AI difficulty to be set in non-Campaign game modes