Difficulty Levels

Campaign games

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

Difficulty level	Enemies	Player (You)
Easy	20% Damage	20% Damage  10% Power
Medium	No Effect
Hard	20% Damage	20% Damage  10% Power

These effects only apply to Campaign mode.

Skirmish / Multiplayer games

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

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 (in Warzone  and above)
• They lose fewer map-defined buildings in relation to the baseType (see Player Initialisation for full details).

Challenge games

In Challenge Games, the difficulty levels work the same as in Skirmish / Multiplayer games. The .ini file associated with the challenge defines the difficulty level of each AI player in the game.

Fast Play games

Not yet investigated – if you know, please leave a comment on this page.

Tutorial mode

Difficulty levels are not applicable in the tutorial.