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There are 5 levels of difficulty:
There are five levels of difficulty. From easiest to hardest, they are:
* Discoverer - easiest
# Discoverer
* Explorer
# Explorer
* Conqueror
# Conqueror
* Governor
# Governor
* Viceroy - hardest
# Viceroy


I don't think there's a list of all differences between difficulty levels.
Playing on Discoverer is pretty boring, Explorer and Conqueror are good for learning game mechanics, and Governor and Viceroy are for the real fun. Viceroy is a lot easier than [[Master of Magic]]'s Impossible level, and it should be a comfortable play after a few games.


Quantitatively confirmed differences (details in further sections):
If you learned the game at lower difficulty, you may be expecting certain things (good quality of immigrants, cheaper founding fathers, low rate of Indian alarm) that don't work that way on higher levels.
 
==Quantitatively confirmed differences==
* Size of the King's army
* Size of the King's army
* Number of bells for each founding father
* Number of bells for each founding father
* first Soldier is always a Veteran on Discoverer and Explorer (otherwise only Spanish start with a Veteran Soldier)
* First Soldier is always a Veteran on Discoverer and Explorer (otherwise only Spanish start with a Veteran Soldier)
* Tutorial hints are turned on by default on Discoverer (but you can change that in game options menu)
* Tutorial hints are turned on by default on Discoverer (but you can change that in game options menu)


Qualitatively confirmed differences (they're real, but I have no details):
==Qualitatively confirmed differences==
* Indian alarm rate is greater on higher difficulties
* Indian alarm rate is greater on higher difficulties
* Immigration quality is lower on higher difficulties: fewer specialists, more criminals and servants
* Immigration quality is lower on higher difficulties: fewer specialists, more criminals and servants


Definitely no difference:
==Definitely no difference==
* number of bells per population to get revolutionary support
* Number of bells per population to get revolutionary support
* strength and speed of armies, production of various goods, cost of buildings etc. The game's "core mechanics" don't seem to be affected in any way.
* Strength and speed of armies, production of various goods, cost of buildings, etc. The game's "core mechanics" don't seem to be affected in any way.
* cost of units in Europe
* Cost of units in Europe


No idea:
==Unkown==
* Indian treasures, volatility of prices, AI's behavior
* Indian treasures, volatility of prices, AI's behavior
* AI's bonuses - but it has difficulty-dependent bonuses in Civ, CivII and MoM, so they're very likely. AI seems to have at least one bonus of free 20 tools and 50 guns in all new colonies, but I don't know if it's difficulty-dependent.
* AI's bonuses - but it has difficulty-dependent bonuses in Civ, CivII and MoM, so they're very likely. AI seems to have at least one bonus of free 20 tools and 50 guns in all new colonies, but that may not be difficulty-dependent.
 
Playing on Discoverer is pretty boring, Explorer and Conqueror are good
for learning game mechanics, Governor and Viceroy for the real fun.
Viceroy is a lot easier than Master of Magic's Impossible level, and
it should be a comfortable play after a few games.


If you learned the game at lower difficulty, you may be expecting certain
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things (good quality of immigrants, cheaper founding fathers, low rate of
Indian alarm) that don't work that way on higher levels.

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There are five levels of difficulty. From easiest to hardest, they are:

  1. Discoverer
  2. Explorer
  3. Conqueror
  4. Governor
  5. Viceroy

Playing on Discoverer is pretty boring, Explorer and Conqueror are good for learning game mechanics, and Governor and Viceroy are for the real fun. Viceroy is a lot easier than Master of Magic's Impossible level, and it should be a comfortable play after a few games.

If you learned the game at lower difficulty, you may be expecting certain things (good quality of immigrants, cheaper founding fathers, low rate of Indian alarm) that don't work that way on higher levels.

Quantitatively confirmed differences

  • Size of the King's army
  • Number of bells for each founding father
  • First Soldier is always a Veteran on Discoverer and Explorer (otherwise only Spanish start with a Veteran Soldier)
  • Tutorial hints are turned on by default on Discoverer (but you can change that in game options menu)

Qualitatively confirmed differences

  • Indian alarm rate is greater on higher difficulties
  • Immigration quality is lower on higher difficulties: fewer specialists, more criminals and servants

Definitely no difference

  • Number of bells per population to get revolutionary support
  • Strength and speed of armies, production of various goods, cost of buildings, etc. The game's "core mechanics" don't seem to be affected in any way.
  • Cost of units in Europe

Unkown

  • Indian treasures, volatility of prices, AI's behavior
  • AI's bonuses - but it has difficulty-dependent bonuses in Civ, CivII and MoM, so they're very likely. AI seems to have at least one bonus of free 20 tools and 50 guns in all new colonies, but that may not be difficulty-dependent.
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