By setting the AI to Deity, you are making more difficult to play against, not giving him the hardest path to success. I think you're misunderstanding that function. He got free extra settlers and units at the start of the game because he was set to deity. I have only 4 full games at Prince difficulty for all human and AI civs involved under by belt so it may be lack of experience in this regard causing my confusion. Just confused on how he is 50 points ahead in score if this is not an advantageous difficulty. I assumed that this would put Alexander at a large disadvantage in the game yet he is leading in both domination and score at turn Am I correct in thinking that the Deity difficulty for Alexander is a disadvantage for him or am I to interpret this otherwise? I changed one AI difficulty Alexander to Deity to see how that would play out.
Prior to the game, I set him to Warlord difficulty and mine to King.
