Would it be possible to add another difficulty that is harder than humankind difficulty? I would like to get back into the game but every game being a sure win is no fun. I can gimp myself, set limitations to make the game harder, but doing that is no fun too. So I'd like to hear if anyone has any ideas on good ways the developers can to do this? I personally found that giving the AI a 2 CS bonus, like they did before, make for a challenging ancient era game, but later eras became easy again, so one simple way would be to add 1 CS bonus on top of the 2 CS bonus per era.

This. Hk difficulty was dumbed down a lot. It used to be a challenge. Now I can only play multiplayer or else is too easy

Diegoyya wrote:

This. Hk difficulty was dumbed down a lot. It used to be a challenge. Now I can only play multiplayer or else is too easy

Tempted to just give them more extra industry ahahah

Is there a reason why the dev abandoned making the AI stronger by using combat strength adjustment? When they did that before, it does work. What would be really great for me would be to have an option to set the CS bonus myself. Beat +2 CS, try 3. Keep increasing it until I am tearing my hair out in frustration. What fun ;)

emnaki wrote:

Is there a reason why the dev abandoned making the AI stronger by using combat strength adjustment? When they did that before, it does work. What would be really great for me would be to have an option to set the CS bonus myself. Beat +2 CS, try 3. Keep increasing it until I am tearing my hair out in frustration. What fun ;)

well several reasons, but the main one is to avoid the feeling that player had of AI cheating when giving them +CS