Updated. Made a balance pass on idea groups and policies. Mainly focusing on weaker idea groups and corresponding policies. Thanks to Beeewars for ideas and feedback.

@Christian75 Open it and read description.

Welcome. Scaling difficulty in options.what does it mean? how does it work?

@Count Pooperfarter
eu4.paradoxwikis.com/Artificial_intelligence#Cheats

hi can you make a stand alone mod that removes the ai's hidden cheats. I am not talking about the ai's stat buffs and making it more powerful throughout the game. What I am talking about is the ai's incredible rng (or perhaps the players built in terrible rng) when besieging forts and in dice rolls in battle. It completely ruins close wars and causes me to constantly have to save scum because the ai gets the 7% siege and i can't get the 57% siege. I would be so grateful.

Well that sucks. But thanks for the clarification anyways

@nicky_rijsbergen13 Yes all optional scaling difficulty bonuses are in triggered modifiers.

@Aaronnum I You will be lucky if the game even launches with both enabled.

Can I play this alongside Europa Expanded?

Thank you for making this mod! Excited to try it out.

If I understand correctly from the files then these are the scaling modifiers right?

Hard: 10% FL in discovery, 15% FL in reformation, 20% FL in absolutism, 25% in revolutions
Nightmare: 15% FL in discovery, 25% FL in reformation, 35% FL in absolutism, 45% in revolutions

In addition I see some modifiers regarding all_power_cost, advisor_cost, build_cost, gov_cap, etc.

@bliss Should be working now. Uploaded the fix.

something about the mod seems to be disabling take mandate of heaven cb on oirat, I tested on a new save with no other mods and the cb doesn't exist at game start

Great thanks, I didn't see the split

@royyy Most of the UI is in the separate mod now for compatibility.

Thx for updates!
Advisors with dual effects have a text overflow issue now (2nd effect spills over onto Price)
DoF issue seems to be fixed in 1.37

Updated with fix for brigs issue. @bliss

just noticed that the brig speed is set to 5 instead of 7. flutes also don't show as outdated vs. brigs and can't be upgraded as such, not sure if it's related

Updated. Lots of bug fixes big and small. Updated changelog, probably forgot something anyway. Added more logic for new content from recent updates. Added a scripted way for AI to declare multiple wars.

Most of the mod UI are now in a separate submod for compatibility.

@royyy it's not resolved from what I've seen in a couple of test games

Is the DoF issue resolved in 1.37? (changelog still links to 1.33 page)

Oof, changing the UI makes it incompatible with a LOT of stuff.

I guess it doesn't work with the Expanded family of mods?

Just ignore it.

it still says that the mod is for another version. I guess that we just ignore it?

Updated. Collection of small changes to make AI less likely to fall behind on military tech.

@ǝuoƆ ǝɹǝW ツ The mod changes UI a bit. You can eddit descriptor.mod file for Doge UI and add dependencies={"Difficulty & AI (1.37)"}

Surprisingly enough, the mod conflicts with the Doge UI mod, shifting icons and other UI parts, though only in particular places. Could the ui be adjudicated? Or is there a config where it could be configured? Cheers in advance

Nice i always use Xorme up until this mod gets updated :)

Thanks!

Updated for 1.37.

update?

@KyraFox Sounds like a problem on the launcher / steam workshop side. Ideally the game needs clean reinstall in this case, but I guess with GFN you can only unsubscribe from all mods.

@SPIRIT BAKER

Hello.

I know you don't have much control over that but me and my boyfriend struggle to get the same checksum. He is using Geforce Now to play with the game and his checksum is changing for some reason. Yesterday we both had (1ffc) and today he gets (e0ed or something like that). Since he is on GFN he can't re-install the game or anything. Maybe it's an issue other people had?

@Nik You could try switching to english, select options you need and switch back.

The difficulty Options just show "missing localization". Any fix for that?

@royyy Glad to hear that.

Love this mod, scales really nicely and actually makes the AI scary again. haven't played any other since I found it 2 years ago. big thx for the updates! performance boost from removing natives also v nice

<3 amazing, thank you

Updated for 1.36.
Thanks to Svatopluk1 for additional bug fixes.

Update please

Update?

thirded, waiting for this to update before I resub!

This is the best mod ever pls update!

Will this mod be updated?

Should be updated for 1.35.6

@_Phobics As far as I know, the main scaling factor for Merc company size is the country's development. The mod have increased Mercenary company size for every non generic Merc company. There are also some restrictions, for example you can't hire mercs from rivals, countries you are at war with and countries that have negative opinion about you.
I know it's delayed response but it's better than no response.

There seems to be a problem with mercs stemming from the fact that the mod reduces army size. In summary, I think my 8000 development germany should have a free company a bit bigger than 8k. It feels like they scale extremely badly and have been stuck at 8k since I was maybe 2k dev. This makes mercs not useless but very annoying to use after early game

why is there a map folder?

best

woooo yeah babyyy thats what ive been waitin for thats what its all about

Updated for 1.35.3.
Included expand empire cb fix
Updated ai army script.

@unerringCaprition (She/Her) Eu4 load mods in alphabetical order, if this mod loads before dif & ai, all conflicting files will be overwritten by diff & ai files.