Been trawling through the Unity tool and definitions but i cant seem to find anything regarding ai/player difficulty bonus/malus?

Anyone had a look and found anything?

DrunkenChoko wrote:

Hi ! 

I don't think you really can mod AI right now, but you should be able to modify difficulties (but apparently not create a new one sadly). To do this you have to modify a GameDifficultyDefinition, I would advise you to look at how other GameDifficultyDefinition work (for example "GameDifficulty_Easy").
A GameDifficulty apply Descriptors on AI and Human player and also can give bonus Resource to AI (strategic or luxury resources.

A Descriptor is "something" (let's say "something" to stay vague ^^) that can modify a game Entity, here the descriptors will be applied on the Empires and will be able to modify the Empire properties, and the properties of the entities referenced in the empire (I don't know if you already know how to use descriptor, but you can for example give bonus Combat Strength on all the units of the empire by setting a path to target Empire => Armies => Units and then targeting the units).

That's about it, sorry I try to keep this simple and short, again the best way to try to understand how all of this work is to look at similar datas and modify them. Don't hesitate if you have other questions !

Yeah, GameDifficultyDefinition sounds exactly like what im looking for.  Im not worries about modding the AI, i just want to get a handle on what changes are made between difficulties before I start rebalancing to my own kink. 

i'm very familar with modding the other Endless games, im just having a hard time transferring that usual folder structure and 'finding' the things i need in the the Unity layout.  I did try searching for it but nothing popped, even just the word 'easy'.  I think i might be importing the wrong assets somehow.  I'll go back to the beginning and try again.

If you have a tip as to which 'folder' i need to be looking at in the assets...?  

But thanks for letting me know it exists.  Half the frustration is not knowing if im searching for something that isnt there.

Really sorry but that's exactly where I won't be able to help you much, I'm really not familiar with our mod tool (I tried launching it and fiddling with it before answering you but that's about it).

So; i've found the game difficulty file the gentlemen above described but it appears to be a core DLL of some sort and im seemingly unable to export, extract or edit it.

Has anyone got an idea on how to proceed from here?

No idea, for now we can't use that probably. This mod tools is still beta and don't provide all it maybe provide in the future.

Enchanteur wrote:

No idea, for now we can't use that probably. This mod tools is still beta and don't provide all it maybe provide in the future.

Aye. Seems that way.  thx.

Hi again ! 

After some talk the difficulty isn't available because it is with other data that are a bit sensitive but we're gonna move them around so you will have access to the GameDifficulty (and some other funny data if we can) .

As always, those change will arrive soon™, with no date whatsoever, you know the drill

Cheers !

no worries.