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Contents 1 Diplomatic Difficulty 2 Military Difficulty 3 Economic Difficulty 4 Approval Effects Lobby Option 5 Critical United Nations Lobby Option

Diplomatic Difficulty

There are many game behaviors and attributes that are altered by the Diplomatic Difficulty Game Setting.

The following AI behaviors are altered by the Diplomatic level:

1. Region Alliances
2. Diplomatic/Trade Offer Quantity
3. Diplomatic/Trade Offer terms favorability
4. AI Favorable Evaluation/Approval of Player Offers and Trades
5. Quantity of War declarations
6. War CB* Requirement
7. Cancellation of Alliance
8. Conspiracy to Declare War

AI Behaviors
Behavior/Difficulty	Very Easy	Easy	Very Hard
Alliances	Most	More	Fewest
Offers	Most	More	Fewest
Offer Terms	Most	More	Least
Evaluation	Most	More	Least
Wars	Most	Many	Few
CB	Lowest	Low	Highest
Cancellation	Never	Never	Possible
Conspiracy	Never	Never	Possible

The following other Game Attributes are changed by the Diplomatic level:

1. Initial adjustment to Player's UN Treaty Integrity, Approval and Subsidy
2. Initial adjustment to AI Region's UN Treaty Integrity, Approval and Subsidy
3. Effects of Diplomatic and Civilian Ratings (Relations/Opposition) from Normal (default)
4. Effects of CB from Normal (default)
5. Rate of CB decrease over time
6. End-of-day adjustment to U.N. Approvals and Subsidies
7. End-of-day adjustment to AI region's Diplomatic and Civilian Relations and their CB

and for game version 5.2 and later:

1. CB penalty against player for possessing the "largest army" or military building capacity (MilCap).
2. Automatic Player CB against AI

Note that the United Nations (UN) Approval attribute is equivalent to a region's favor by the World Market.

Game Attributes
Attribute/Difficulty	Very Easy	Easy	Normal	Very Hard
Initial UN	Largest Positive	Large Positive	None	Most Negative
Initial AI UN	Largest Negative	Large Negative	None	Most Positive
Ratings Effect	60%	80%	100%	140%
CB Effects	60%	80%	100%	140%
CB Rate	Fastest	Fast	Normal	Slowest
UN Approval	?	?	Normal	?
AI Relations/CB	?	?	Normal	?
MilCap Penalty	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Player CB	Yes	No	No	No

*Casus Belli (CB) is a region's justification for war against another region. Penalties for declaring war are inversely proportional to the declaring region's justification/CB.

Military Difficulty

1. AI Ruler Defense Minister Competence
2. AI Unit Intelligence
3. Player Defense Minster Activity
4. Likelihood of Partisans & Guerillas
5. Likelihood of UN Military Advisors
6. Player's initial Military Efficiency

and for Global Crisis Only:

1. Reduction in strength of sold Units after Player/AI exchange (Land-Air/Sea)
2. Reduction in strength of sold Units after AI to AI exchange (Land-Air/Sea)

Game Attributes
Attribute/Difficulty	Very Easy	Very Hard
AI DM	Lowest	Highest
AI Units	Lowest	Highest
DM Activity	Highest	Lowest
Partisans	Lowest	Highest
Advisors	Lowest	Highest
Mil.Efficiency	Highest	Lowest
Player Units	0%	25%-50%
AI-to-AI Units	25%-50%	0%

Economic Difficulty

• Lower taxation income at higher difficulties
• Other economic effects adjusted

(More detail please. Do these changes affect AI as well as Player?)

Approval Effects Lobby Option

The level of "Approval Effect" detemines how strongly the AI regions will react to your diplomatic actions.

1. Effects of Diplomatic and Civilian Ratings (Relations/Opposition) from Normal (default)
2. Effects of Casus Belli (CB) from Normal
3. CB penalty against player for possessing the "largest army" or military building capacity (MilCap) (version 5.2 and above)
4. Decrease of AI Provocation when successfully negociating Peace treaty
5. Increase in AI Provocation upon declaration of war

Game Effects
Effect/Difficulty	Easy	Medium	High
Ratings	50%	Normal	150%
CB	50%	Normal	150%
MilCap Penalty	Lower	Normal	Higher
Peace Treaty	Higher	Normal	Lower
DOW	Lower	Normal	Higher

Critical United Nations Lobby Option

Unchecked will reduce effect of world approval