I am rather new to GoT. I found the demo about 10 days ago, played that for 48 hours, and then bought the full game.
I have to say I love it. This is a much-ignored period of history, (and tragically so), unless you count sleazy, grossly-unrealistic RTS games like Age of Empires and its clones.
OK, introductions complete. On to the meat of the post.
I have noted that when playing the 1500 BC Campaign in GoT, with the difficulty settings at either Easy or Normal, the other empires never expand.
I am talking 200 turns into the game, and nobody but me has more than one city.
This obviously can't be right, so I went looking.
I made a backup copy of Tweaks.txt, then made the following changes to the original
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Difficult Settings - %age of building & squad costs AI pays on this difficulty level
AILEVEL0 changed to 150 (was 200)
AILEVEL1 changed to 120 (was 150)
How long to prevent AI building units
AIDelay0 changed to 1 (was 12)
AIDelay1 changed to 1 (was 6)
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I am now playing on Normal difficulty level, and the problem seems to be solved.
Your thoughts, gentlemen?
To answer a few obvious questions -
1. No, I didn't install the full game over the demo
2. No, I had not modified the game in any way prior to this.
3. Yes, I had played the 1500 BC scenario to 200+ turns on both Easy and Normal settings, and observed no explansion at all by any other combatant.
