Date cheats

**soccerlover10cf** · 05-27-2005, 18:31

Does anyone know how date cheat works?
In the campaign map I pressed after I pressed "`" i clicked "date 270 B.C"
But it did not work. In the cheat code it says "date [year]"
Does anyone know how this works...
Thanks

**Mikeus Caesar** · 05-27-2005, 18:32

This is one of the more evil cheats in the game. It is very difficult to use, so someone posting how to use it would prolly be very useful for everyone.

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**IliaDN** · 05-27-2005, 18:36

You mean the cheat to change the date , if so I can take a look for a link.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 05-27-2005, 18:37

Yes, that cheat. Most people know what it is but not how to use it. I would like it because one of my friends says that in 0 AD the game announces the birth of Jesus Christ, and i want to see if it is true.

**soccerlover10cf** · 05-27-2005, 18:39

Yeah your right..
Cheat changing the date.
But all the link that I found says "date [year]" But it does not work I dont know why.

P.S. On my first post I meant to say "in the campaign mode when I press "`" to access the console than I typed "date 270 B.C." but it did not work..

**Epistolary Richard** · 05-27-2005, 19:51

Many of the 'cheats' (or console commands as I prefer to call them) can't actually be activated through the RomeShell console. The good news, however, is that they can be activated through a script.

Have a read of this Beginner's Guide to Scripting and follow those steps. There's a link as to how to change the date at the bottom of the first post.

Of course, if you don't want to bother, you can always read the message below:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

**Cheater** · 05-29-2005, 14:58

Being the first and foremost bastard cheater on the .Org forums, I can help you with that!

OK, here's what you need to do. If you want to set a BC date, you need to put a minus before the number, like this "date -1500" which will set the date back to 1500 BC. If you don't put the minus, it will be an AD date.

Getting the cheat to work properly, however, is a toughie. To the best of my knowledge, you may need to get the cheat unlocker patched up on your game, seeing as that patch not only allows unlimited cheating, but opens up new cheat options, too.

If you can't, or don't want to patch up your game, here's another trick to change the date. Go to the desc_strats in your imperial campaign folder (I'm not sure if I spelled the name of the file fight, but it looks like it, anyway) and open it up. In it, there should be a 'start date' part with the date -270 and followed by an 'end date' of 9 or something around that. You can change this number to whatever number you want, and that's the date the game will start and end with.

Trust me, you can go very far behind this way... I started a game in the year 50,000 BC!!

With the console cheat that you're after, the maximum date you can go back is 2000 BC and the maximum forward is 2000 AD.

Good luck!!

**Craterus** · 05-29-2005, 15:04

Haha. You could replay 1914-1918. With Gaul, Britain and Scythia allied against Germania, Pontus, Dacia and Romans.

I didn't know you could change the date that far forward.