Difficulty Settings

There are two types of difficulty settings.

Galaxy Difficulty
The overall difficulty of the map, which includes pirates and the default AI intelligence of all of the races.

AI Intelligence Level
You can override the default difficulty (based on Galaxy Difficulty) of each race's AI by making adjustments in your game options for a more customized experience.

The AI intelligence difficulty provides different bonuses/penalties to the AI, defined in the GalCiv3AIDefs.xml file. The table below gives the unmodded values of these bonuses and penalties.

In addition, Incredible and Godlike intelligence difficulties can receive the following gifts at certain intervals