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If I play the game at Normal difficulty, I pretty much win 9 times out of 10, which is boring. If I play the game, just one step higher, at Gifted. Then I lose 9 times out of 10 due to the enormous advantage the AI seems to have in production, research etc.
Is there a way to adjust the AI so it is somewhere in between these two?
If you're willing to play around with the XML files, yes. The difficulty levels are defined in GalCiv3AIDefs.XML, found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Galactic Civilizations III\data\Game if you installed to the default directory. You can edit the file to change the magnitude of the bonuses the computer gets at each difficulty level; you can implement this as a mod (save the edited file to the mods directory with the right folder structure) or as an alteration to the core files.
The easy thing to try is to play with the individual AL setting.. say you play with 5 or 6 AI's put all on normal and just bump 1 up, then go for 2.....
Also it sounds like you could use some help with your game play, Lots of good players here who are willing to give advice. I found some of the UTube lets plays helpful early on to learn a bunch of tricks/ general game play tips.
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