? about difficulty and aggressiveness

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I am starting a new game and have been tinkering with the settings. I want a challenge, yet not impossible.

What does hard do, less gold and more enemy troops?

How does aggressiveness affect the game? Does it relate to troop aggressiveness or computer colonization/exploration aggressiveness?

I played my first game at normal/normal (Fantasia-got boring, not enough nations) and was contempating playing GC as either Spain or Portugal at Hard/Aggressive.

I would appreciate some feedback, especially since it is such a long game and don't want to restart halfway through.

Thanks.

 

[Yasko]

I allways play with Normal/Normal, since i believe that its the most historical one....

 

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I normaly play with the setting very hard/aggresive, that is probably the hardest settings since at furious the AI do not prepare before declaring war.

I think the aggresivness settings is how easy/much the AI goes to war.

 

[Dark Knight]

Qbert,
You can change the difficulty level to whatever makes your games challenging. For your first game, you should probably just leave this at normal. AI aggressiveness changes don't necessarily make the game more easy or difficult, but they do change the way the game plays. I would set this to normal at first and in your later game you might want to raise this to 'aggressive' if you think the AI needs to be more bellicose.

 

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Thank you for the feedback Yasko, Janbalk and Dark Knight!! I am going to start a new GC tonight.

Please, anyone, I would like to get some more feedback. What is a good nation to take? I am considering Portugal, Spain, Russia, and England.

Also, I didn't see anyone respond to my question on how the hard setting affects the game.

This would be appreciated!!!

 

[BiB]

On harder settings u start with less moeny and troops for example cost more.

Spain, Russia and France are really easy, even for a first game. England might be interesting, Portugal may be a bit hard for a beginner with its strained resources.

 

[Dark Knight]

Russia might be a good country to begin with, since you can first concentrate on expansion through war and then on the colonization of Siberia. With Spain or Portugal, you'd have to deal with naval exploration and colonization immediately. Also, with Spain you'd have to worry about wars with France, Dutch revolts, etc., which might be too much at once for a first game. Portugal can be played fairly peacefully. England wil be limited in its options at the beginning of the game, but will soon be able to expand overseas (plus, you always try to expand into Scotland, northern France, or the Spanish Netherlands).