Re: BUG Report: problem with how difficulty are compute at the end of the game

on 10/5/04 8:25 AM, moistsilver wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> according to the game documentation available on the Web, the
> starting difficulty will be decrease by 1 at the end of the game if
> you formed an alliances.
> 
> So far, each time I did not form an alliance (computer offer to and I
> accepted), the difficulty level was decrease by one.
> 
> Each time I formed an alliance during the game with a computer player
> and I break it before the end of the game, the game result was the
> same difficulty level as the starting setup.
> 
> I am using the version 1.0.4.
> 
> Can somebody confirm if this is a known bug?
> If yes, when it will be available in a 1.0.5 version?
> 
> Note: A difference of 1 in the difficulty level is more than 250 MPs
> difference when you play at a difficulty level of 101 & 102.
> 

Actually, this is behaving as the game is designed to (rightly or wrongly).

The difficulty is adjusted for alliances if and only if the alliance is
still there when you win.

If you have an alliance for some period of time and then break it and kill
the other player before the end, you are not penalized for having had an
alliance.

Peter