How often do you guys use cheats?

[Suraknar]

I raise the starting money to 5000000 mnai or denari for the faction I choose for a given campaign...and that is about it, no other advantages.

I never liked to be out of money in these games, because in reality money was not needed to build anything back then (with some exceptions), they forced people to work back then (slavery). And while today we do not Tolerate it, and I would not condone it either (being a humanist and all), it is still how things worked Historically and I like to play with the then rules rather than today's rules when I play a game set in the then era.

I still play carefully as to not have a negative balance most of the time, yet i can have cities constantly building something like that, I really hate the wait past a certain point, 6+ turns to build a single building in one city is a boring eternity for me.