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This mod updates and expands on work previously done by MINOS, removing bonuses the AI gets and penalties the human player gets during campaign play that give the AI advantages over the player factions, such as increased heal rates, cheaper units costs, or faster unit training and research.

There are also a few minor bug fixes for the auto-resolver included.

This mod will generally decrease the campaign's difficulty, as the AI gets some pretty legitimately nonsense cheats enabled by default. They heal faster, take less damage, make more money, pay less for everything, build everything faster, etc...

But if you were playing on normal before, you could apply this mod, then bump the difficulty up to hard or very hard to compensate. If you were playing on hard, bumping it up to very hard or legend might be appropriate. If you're already beating the AI on legendary with their cheats on...well, you're a badass.

An additional note is the AI cheats also don't seem to be equally fair vs all player factions, some were screwed far worse than others, so with them removed, this puts them back on even footing.

This is especially good for playing co-op campaigns, since you can focus more on co-ordination and empire building, rather than constantly needing to defend against AI armies and hordes that are prioritizing human players over other AIs and rebuilding their whole army in only 2-3 turns every time you kill them.

• Battle Changes
  • Morale Changes
    • Removed Human vs AI Morale Swing
  • Rules Changes
    • Removed AI Charge Bonuses
      
    • Removed AI Melee Attack Bonus
      
    • Removed AI Melee Damage Bonus
      
    • Removed AI Melee Defence Bonus
      
    • Removed AI Missile Reload Bonus
• Campaign Changes
  • Autoresolver Changes
    • Removed Kills per Second Penalties per Difficulty
      
    • Removed Human vs AI Penalty for Sieges
      
    • Fixed Doubled Missile Unit Modifier by Changing one into a Melee Modifier that was Missing [Bugfix]
  • Empire Rivalry Changes
    • Removed additional Anti-Human diplomacy penalty for expanding in V.Hard Difficulty
  • AI Behavior Changes
    • Removed Aversion to Confederating with Humans
      
    • Removed Adjustment to Human target distance on campaign map:
      
    • Removed Additional Per-Turn Priority Ramp-Up to Aggression Towards Human Hordes
      
    • Removed modifiers to aggression and threat detection aginst the player
  • Difficulty Modifier Changes
    • Removed AI Agent Suuccess Change Bonus
      
    • Removed AI Army/Navy/Province Recruitment Point Bonuses
      
    • Removed AI Attrition Resistance
      
    • Removed AI Bonuses to Enslave Captives
      
    • Removed AI Building Construction Cost Bonuses
      
    • Removed AI GDP Modifier for Horde Infighting
      
    • Removed AI Growth Rate Bonuses
      
    • Removed AI High Elf Influence Bonuses
      
    • Removed AI Occupation Cost Bonuses
      
    • Removed AI Occupation Resistance Bonuses
      
    • [UPDATED] Removed AI Per-Turn XP Bonus
      
    • Removed AI Plague Bonuses
      
    • Removed AI Recruitment Cost Bonuses
      
    • Removed AI Research Cost Bonuses
      
    • Removed AI Rite Cost Bonuses
      
    • Removed AI Slave Deline Bonuses
      
    • Removed AI Slave Penalty Mitigation
      
    • Removed AI Storm Move Chance Bonus
      
    • Removed AI/Human Character & Unit Replenishment Disparities
      
    • Removed AI/Human Post-Battle Item Theft Chance Disparities
      
    • Removed AI/Human Tomb King Economic Penalty Disparities
      
    • Removed AI/Human Upkeep Disparities
      
    • Removed Human High Elf Influence Cost Penlties
      
    • Removed Human Public Order Penalties
  • Miscellaneous Changes
    • [NEW] Removed nerfs to AI Kemmler