I just started a new VV2 tribe, and I hope I started it on hard difficulty.

First I created a new tribe, then after going through the whole intro, I went to options and put the difficulty on hard, then I started the game over again, went through the intro, and now I think I have a hard tribe. I'm not sure though. Is that how you are supposed to start a hard tribe?? I really want to do a hard tribe.