I know that intelligent uses all algorithms and doesn't cheat. Since I have no problem beating intelligent ai:s militarily, I was thinking of moving up in difficulty. But it would be nice to know exactly what kind of cheats the AI gets with the different intelligences and difficulties.
First, what do the AI:s get for bonuses at Gifted intelligence. It isn't listed in the manual.
At Genius, they get a 25% economy bonus and at Incredible, they get a 100% economy bonus, this is from the manual and pretty clear.
Now the different difficulties, this is where it all becomes foggy. There is Tough difficulty where all AI:s are Intelligent, Painful where they all are Gifted, Crippling where they all are Genius and Masochistic where they all are at Incredible. Then there are two more difficulties, Obscene and Suicidal, where all AI:s still are Incredible.
So my guess is that they get their bonuses from their intelligence on all difficulties up to Masochistic and they then get even more bonuses on the two top difficulties? I would like to know what that is.
I know that the AI gets a miniaturization bonus at the highest difficulty in Beta 4 but what more do they get?
Answers from Stardock would be welcome. I would also like to add that this should really be explained in the 'Choose Oponents'-screen, for example with tooltips giving a description of the currently chosen intelligence and difficulty.
