A Cheat too far?

**risker** · 09-15-2009, 19:46

I sometimes use the money cheat to dive into action imidiately but that's about it. I occasionly put toggle_fow on to see where is a settlement that you can miss instantly (in Russia for example).

I don't see the point in creating those close to invincible units, it just ruins the game completely.

**Prussian to the Iron** · 09-15-2009, 20:06

I don't tihnk most people use most of the cheats; I have tried the give ancillary and give trait cheat over 9,000 times. and i never get it to work. and to get the move thing to work you need to go through a bunch of weird stuff that i dont care to do.

honestly, I really just used process_cq and add_money because thats the way I play; I like being able to summon massive armies of uber troops, because I know that it will be a challenge with mods on VH/VH with the a.i. injecting money into itself like frickin meth.

E:TW I just self-mod the starting money so that I can start out with good cities and build more improvements. I managed to beat a whole game as the Marathas and ended up tkaing over about half of northern europe, so it's not like it's a hard game. I just prefer to have lots o money.

**Agent Miles** · 09-16-2009, 14:38

I honestly didn't know about these cheats and will continue not to use them.

**Galain_Ironhide** · 09-18-2009, 15:56

toggle_fow is my bane. Not that I use it all the time, however it is mostly when I am finishing a session of gameplay for the night, I'll press press the ol' toggle_fow just to see whats going on with the other factions. I find it interesting what the ai gets up to or what it doesn't....

Also I have used the move_character cheat as a house rule to relocate those stuck ex-crusading armies that the AI all but abandons because it can not find its way back to its own territory once a crusade has finished. Suddenly once the AI has its army back in its territory, it usually sparks it into action.

**Tsavong** · 09-20-2009, 12:02

Originally Posted by Custodis Hellenius

So, what do you think? Is the Shell overpowered in M2TW?

Just because they are there it dose not mean you have to use them.

**IceWolf** · 09-21-2009, 15:34

The only cheat I would use is the FOW, and then only in a defensive campaign to see how the others are developing.

Icewolf

**Prussian to the Iron** · 09-21-2009, 22:57

in my current stainless steel campaign, I really don't use many cheats. just process_cq mostly, and toggle_fow so that my diplomat doesnt take 20 years getting from spain to denmark due to being stoped repeatedly.

but honestly, by the default M2 timeline, it takes over a hundred years to build only the 2 top-tier buildings in the city line. if it was maybe all building at once (ala E:TW) I could wait 15 turns. but it doesnt take hundreds of years to build a city.