Extra Hard Mode
This mod significantly increases the difficulty of the game adding buffs for AI and debuffs for the player. The changes are designed to make the game more challenging and closer to the difficulty level of Europa Universalis IV.
AI Buffs (ai_hard_difficulty)
Army Enhancements: Reduced recruitment and maintenance costs for men-at-arms, increased men-at-arms cap and limit, reduced levy maintenance, increased levy size and reinforcement rate, reduced mercenary hire cost, increased garrison size, knight limit, and effectiveness, and improved supply duration and limit.
Realm Improvements: Reduced title creation cost, increased domain tax, faster county control change, improved vassal opinion, increased vassal tax and levy contributions, enhanced long reign bonus, faster development growth, increased dread gain, reduced tyranny gain, and extended diplomatic range.
Life Enhancements: Reduced stress loss, increased monthly prestige and piety gains, improved personal and hostile scheme power and resistance, and faster lifestyle experience gain.
Player Debuffs (player_hard_difficulty)
Realm Penalties: Reduced general opinion, decreased long reign bonus, shortened diplomatic range, and slower cultural head fascination.
Life Penalties: Reduced monthly prestige and piety gains, decreased hostile scheme resistance, increased faith conversion piety cost, reduced health penalty negation, decreased fertility, and increased stress gain.
Also it’s much harder to call to arms your allies and dynasty members now. Why they should go for thank you very much when army wages cost a lot?
Why these changes?
– X2 cost for faith conversion to prevent milking different Heads of faiths for money or temporarily use other minor faiths benefits. Also it’s too easy to evade holy wars switching to the most promising faith in the early game.
– It has low benefits buffing AI if you can use them easily allying and waging your wars.
Added Legitimacy modifiers.
Plans
– Player is not a single country here but a whole dynasty. Maybe it’s better to exclude its dynasty from benefits (according to modders chat, it can be not so smoothly).
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
