Campaign Difficulty Setting

[rancor]

Thanks to all that gave me info on battle difficulty setting, now I was wondering if someone could explain some things about campaign difficulty.

I understand the difficulty setting you pick effects the starting money, and ammount of money you make each turn. I also suspect it increases your opponents aggressiveness and strength.

I was wondering if it effects your ability to be elected to senate, ability to gain retinues, ability to negotiate...etc. (i understand that the above ( economy, strength etc.) could have implications on these things but i want to know if they are directly modified)

So if anyone could supply an in depth explination of campaign diff setting id appriciate it.

[orangat]

I don't have an indepth explanation but simply said, its affects the AI on everything apart from the tactical battles, which includs diplomacy, money from the sky, p.o., aggressiveness etc.

Now one quirk about the campaign setting is that it is used to resolve autocalc battles (instead of taking the battle difficulty setting) which is a bug imo.

[gardibolt]

Well, a harder autocalc certainly makes the campaign harder---it's not clear to me whether that's a bug or a feature.

[orangat]

Obviously its a bug. The battle difficulty should affect all things in battle including naval and autocalc land battles.

Otherwise what would be the point of having 2 separate difficulty settings?

[Ludens]

Obviously its a bug. The battle difficulty should affect all things in battle including naval and autocalc land battles.

Otherwise what would be the point of having 2 separate difficulty settings?
From what the developers said: it's a feature, although not the most logical one.