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Hard Difficulties

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Author: Swend

Last revision: 28 Apr, 2025 at 14:19 UTC (7)

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Description:

Simple mod that adds three new difficulties to the game: Hard, Very Hard and Extreme. Disables achievements.

Hard:

  • Health: -0.25 (minor penalty)
  • General Opinion: -5
  • Vassal Opinion: -5
  • Marriage Acceptance: -10
  • Stress Gain: +10%
  • Men-at-arms Maintenance: +10%
  • Hostile Scheme Chance: -5%
  • Court Grandeur: -4

AI:

  • Boldness: Small bonus (equivalent to Impatient or Gregarious)
  • War Chance: Small increase (equivalent to Wrathful or Irritable)
  • War Cooldown: Small decrease
  • Men-at-Arms Recruitment Cost: -30%
  • Men-at-Arms Maintenance: -10%
  • Direct Vassal Opinion: +5
  • Same Culture Opinion: +5

Very Hard:

  • Health: -0.4 (minor penalty)
  • General Opinion: -10
  • Marriage Acceptance: -20
  • Tyranny Decay: -28%
  • Short Reign Duration: +10%
  • Tax From Vassals: -10%
  • Levies From Vassals: -10%
  • Stress Gain: +20%
  • Men-at-arms Maintenance: +20%
  • Size of Men-at-Arms Regiments: -1
  • Mercenary Hire Cost: +20%
  • Domain Limit: -1
  • Personal Scheme Chance: -10% (except Learn Language)
  • Hostile Scheme Chance: -10%
  • Court Grandeur: -10

AI:

  • Boldness: Medium bonus (equivalent to Diligent or Wrathful)
  • War Chance: Medium increase (equivalent to Greedy)
  • War Cooldown: Medium decrease (equivalent to Ambitious or Irritable)
  • Men-at-Arms Recruitment Cost: -50%
  • Men-at-Arms Maintenance: -20%
  • Levy Size: +10%
  • Monthly Income: +10%
  • Direct Vassal Opinion: +5
  • Same Culture Opinion: +5
  • Same Faith Opinion: +5

Extreme:

  • Health: -0.8 (major penalty)
  • General Opinion: -10
  • Marriage Acceptance: -30
  • Vassal Opinion: -10
  • Tyranny Gain: +25%
  • Tyranny Decay: -28%
  • Dread Gain: -25%
  • Short Reign Duration: +20%
  • Tax From Vassals: -20%
  • Levies From Vassals: -20%
  • Levy Size: -20%
  • Stress Gain: +20%
  • Stress Loss: -10%
  • Men-at-arms Maintenance: +20%
  • Number of Men-at-Arms Regiments: -1
  • Size of Men-at-Arms Regiments: -1
  • Army Maintenance: +10%
  • Mercenary Hire Cost: +40%
  • Domain Limit: -2
  • Monthly Income: -10%
  • Monthly Prestige: -10%
  • Monthly Piety: -10%
  • Personal Scheme Chance: -10% (except Learn Language)
  • Hostile Scheme Chance: -10%
  • Court Grandeur: -10

AI: Same as Very Hard

Notes:

  • Boldness is an AI personality modifier that affects (among others) how likely it is to be cowed by Dread, and how likely they are to enter factions.
  • War Chance and Cooldown affect AI willingness to start wars, and how often they will consider doing so. These modifiers should both make the AI declare more wars on the player and grow faster when they have the means to.

Guide to making a personal version:

  1. Open the CK3 launcher, click "All installed mods" on the left, then "Mod Tools" in the top right. Click "create mod", choose a name, put anything for version, and choose a folder name.
  2. Go to "DocumentsParadox InteractiveCrusader Kings IIImod".
  3. Go through each ".mod" file (just open them in a notepad) until you find the one that says name="Hard Difficulties".
  4. Go to the address in that file, next to the ‘path=’. It will look something like "…steamappsworkshopcontent<number><number>".
  5. Copy everything in that folder, except the ".mod" file.
  6. Go back to the ‘mod’ folder from 2) and into the folder with the name you chose in step 1), then paste.
  7. From there you can open "commonmodifiershard_difficulties_modifiers.txt" and tweak all the modifiers in any way you want! Remember to disable this mod in "playsets" in the launcher so it doesn’t conflict with the new one you made.

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