Do you ever cheat?

[Duke Bart]

I do toggle_fow to decide who NOT to kill, if an empire that shares a small border with me is suddenly doing very well i will leave it alone so that it can put up more of a fight later.


Also i do the auto_win/lose battle in certain situations when i know i will win the battle

ocasionaly i do the money cheat but i treat it as loans too.

[Ratwar]

The only cheating I do is related to Princesses. I use toggle_fow when I need to find a foreign one, and I usually increase the traits of my own 'girls', since I consider my blood thirsty conquerors to be better fathers than the game.

[Ferret]

I cheated once and found it took a lot of the fun out of the game (but that was uber cheating - creating stacks of elites and teleporting them). Toggle_fow is good but I mainly play hotseats now and for those the console is disabled.

[Quickening]

Blasphemy. I am the Anti-Cheater. Not once have I cheated in Med 2 or Kingdoms. HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAME IN MY PRESENCE

[Rhyfelwyr]

Um thanks for making me feel better guys.

[Galain_Ironhide]

I used toggle_fow for the first time ever when I downloaded Broken Crescent, just so I could check the place out. Aside from that I havent opened the console for any other reason.

In the past I have saved and reloaded, if something happens such as a merchant or a Spy getting killed. These days though, if something does go wrong I just accept it as fate.

[Slug For A Butt]

Blasphemy. I am the Anti-Cheater. Not once have I cheated in Med 2 or Kingdoms. HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAME IN MY PRESENCE

And I hereby appoint myself as your trusty apostle. Oh guardian of the true path, preacher of honesty, basher of all things naughty... these nefarious CHEATERS will fall beneath your mighty righteousness like so much dishonest fallyness before a mighty um... big... mmm... thingy. Ahem

Never once cheated either. And if I had I personally wouldn't try to justify it to myself by kidding myself that it's a loan like it would be in real life.

But, each to their own. Everyone plays their own way.

Now tell me Oh Mighty Quickening... CAN WE BURN 'EM?

[Askthepizzaguy]

As for me:

When I am doing a blitz run, and I am trying to perfect my movements, I do reload and try the turn again. I also re-fight battles if I think I can get a better outcome. I accept auto-resolve outcomes unless I think I can do a better outcome manually.

Otherwise, I don't toggle fog of war, nor do I use any other cheats. I have plenty of fun when playing the game, but I do it more or less competitively so I cannot allow myself to do real cheating.

I justify the reloading to fight battles manually during a blitz run because I could technically start the whole campaign over again and probably do a better job the next time on a lot more things than just one battle. It's more of a time saver than a cheat.

I am the most ruthless and evil exploiter, however. If the AI is dumb enough to hand me money for promises in diplomacy, is willing to trade provinces, or otherwise behaves like a nincompoop, I will slaughter the fools without mercy and I won't bat an eye at accepting an unfair deal.

I also am only slightly less evil than SitRethCir when Crusading or going on Jihad. I abuse every loophole except for the ability to attack Catholics while crusading, just because that one is a bit too sadistic even for me, unless they've been excommunicated. I just cannot bring myself to turn a crusading army, which was never meant to attack Catholics, against Catholics in good standing. They must be off crusade or they must be excommunicated before I allow them to kill fellow Catholics. But other than that, I have no morality whatsoever in my blatant and legendary abuses of the crusading system.

I draw an imaginary line between being evil and being a cheater. Shame on all of you... and stuff.

Actually if you aren't trying to impress anyone with your campaign mastery, what you do in the privacy of your bedroom with your computer is your own business. And I did not mean that the way that sounded.

[BetterDeadThanRed]

I cheated once in my Seleucid campaign out of frustration of the repeated stacks of eastern infantry that forced me to have to fight every single battle out. I felt no sense of accomplishment upon completing the campaign, even though I only did it a few times in the very beginning. I have never done it in any campaign since. I'd sooner just resign.

Sign me up on the apostle list!

[Askthepizzaguy]

One time, I got my butt handed to me on Civilization II, because I was playing a pacifist/scientific campaign, and the Mongols decided to invade me even though we were allies and I was a tiny nation.

So I got mad, turned on the cheat menu, popped open some nuclear missiles and blasted their @$$ to the netherworld in a huge fireball of epic proportions. The moral of the story is; keep me away from nuclear missiles when I am angry.

But that's not M2TW, so I suppose that doesn't count.

[Quickening]

Now tell me Oh Mighty Quickening... CAN WE BURN 'EM?

The stench of burnt flesh already reeks from the town square. I may have been too hasty and too merciful though. I would swear that Ive seen the names of these heretics amongst those who complained that the game was too easy.

"THIS GAME IS SOOOOO EASY GUYS", as he punches in a cheatcode.

I just don't know if burning is enough to purify them. I really don't

[Galain_Ironhide]

"THIS GAME IS SOOOOO EASY GUYS", as he punches in a cheatcode.

LOL

Quickening, you should change your profile to read 'Inquisitor of TW Cheaters'.

or ' The Inquisition has begun'