How does the difficulty alter the game?

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Originally Posted by Nanaki

AI is pretty much the same though and though, although its pretty smart as is, they will work as teams if in the same squad. Becides, Star Wolves is an RPG, so in reality the AI does not have to do much, everythings handled by the pilot stats and the ship stats.

No, disagree.
I use Astarte(600 shield, +5 repair) + 1 G4(decent equipments, but not the best) + 1 G3
cleared XB-19 without lost anything.
And I never group fighters together, and my pilot(greyhair) is just able to fly the G4

and now, I just finished Alex convoy mission, but got 1.5m cash + loads of junks worth another 1.5m(excluding the 4 G5 fighters from hidden locations)

during encounters, my mothership even does not need to change course.