Difficulty Settings?

[Ree]

Hello everyone. I'd like to find out what impact each campaign difficulty level has. Scenario games are fine, the difficulty changes are indicated, but what about campaign difficulty?

[MagnusA]

You have probably found out by now (two years is a long time), but anyway someone still might be interested in this.

The effects of each campaign difficulty level (Easy/Normal/Hard) are set individually in each campaign map. Different effects in different maps, typically more revenue/production or lower costs on the easy level, and vice versa for the hard level.

To see the effects for an individual campaign map, load it into the editor and have a look at the events (Map Options, the second icon from above on the right side). Usually it (the event) is labelled "Difficulty 1 ..." or similar.

When you start a new (stand-alone) scenario, when you press the Easy/Medium/Hard/Expert/Custom buttons, you are basically selecting the level for the Financial and Industrial models (Basic/Advanced/Expert). Press the Options button and explore what happens when you click the Easy/Medium/Hard/Expert/Custom.

In the campaigns, the Industrial and Financial models are always on expert level, unless specifically restricted in individual maps (at least as far as I know).

Regards

/Magnus