Difficulty Settings

There are two types of difficulty settings.

Galaxy Difficulty

The overall difficulty of the map, which includes pirates and the default AI intelligence of all of the races.

AI Intelligence Level

You can override the default difficulty (based on Galaxy Difficulty) of each race's AI by making adjustments in your game options for a more customized experience.

The AI intelligence difficulty provides different bonuses/penalties to the AI, defined in the GalCiv3AIDefs.xml file. The table below gives the unmodded values of these bonuses and penalties.

	Beginner	Easy	Normal	Gifted	Genius	Incredible	Godlike
Fleet Power	-25%	-10%	-	+10%	+20%	+100%	+200%
Unrecognized icon name Raw Production	-75%	-25%	-	+25%	+25%	+50%	+300%
Unrecognized icon name Population Cap	-	-	-	+1	+2	+4	+3
Unrecognized icon name Research	-	-	-	+10%	+25%	+33%	+200%
Unrecognized icon name Net Weekly Income	-	-	-	+25%	+33%	+100%	+300%
Unrecognized icon name Growth	-	-	-	+10%	+25%	+25%	+130%
Unrecognized icon name Morale	-	-	-	+2	+3	+5	+3
Unrecognized icon name Construction Cost (improvements)	-	-	-	-	-	-38%	-50%
Unrecognized icon name Construction Cost (ships)	-	-	-	-	-	-38%	-50%
Unrecognized icon name Maintenance	-	-	-	-	-50%	-50%	-50%
Unrecognized icon name Ship Maintenance	-	-	-	-50%	-50%	-50%	-50%
Unrecognized icon name Ship Maintenance (stationed)	-	-	-	-	-50%	-75%	-100%
Unrecognized icon name Starbase Maintenance	-	-	-	-	-	-50%	-
Unrecognized icon name Ship Range	-	-	-	+25%	+50%	+100%	unlimited
Unrecognized icon name Capacity	-	-	-	-	+25%	+33%	+100%
Unrecognized icon name Accuracy	-	-	-	-	-	-	+0.15
Unrecognized icon name Logistics	-	-	-	-	+3	+10	-
Unrecognized icon name Ship Hit Points	-	-	-	+25%	+33%	+30%	+200%
Unrecognized icon name Starbase Hit Points	-	-	-	-	+25%	+50%	+200%
Unrecognized icon name Shipyard Hit Points	-	-	-	-	+100%	+125%	+150%
Unrecognized icon name Moves	-	-	-	+1	+1, +33%	+1, +200%	+1, +200%
Unrecognized icon name Elerium	-	-	-	+25%	+50%	+200%	+200%
Unrecognized icon name Thulium	-	-	-	+25%	+50%	+200%	+200%
Unrecognized icon name Antimatter	-	-	-	+25%	+50%	+200%	+200%
Unrecognized icon name Durantium	-	-	-	+25%	+100%	+1, +200%	+1, +200%
Unrecognized icon name Durantium (starting)	-	-	-	+1	+5	+25	+100
AI Side Trade Modifier	-	-	-	-	+30%	+40%	-
Human Side Trade Modifier	-	-	-	-	-10%	-15%	-20%

In addition, Incredible and Godlike intelligence difficulties can receive the following gifts at certain intervals

	Incredible	Godlike
Minimum Starting Credits	10000	1000
1000-2000 Unrecognized icon name Credits	50% (every 5 turns)	50% (every 10 turns)
Free War Tech Chance	20%	40%
Free Ideology Points Chance	25%	40%
Free Ideology Points Award	15	20