Quote Originally Posted by Aaron A Aardvark
Some players have foud that the AI is a bit less psycho on lower difficulty levels. If you want to play Total Diplomacy (and there's no reason why you shoudn't) perhaps M/VH might work better.
You can do that or edit descr_faction_standing.txt and change the normalise settings on Trigger 0095_Update_Very_Hard_Difficulty to a value that is the same as hard or medium. This way you retain all the VH settings except for the "Dogs of War" diplomacy.