n18991c wrote:
That sounds complicated, if interesting Why not just edit the bank account in the save game file, give yourself a lot of money, then build a big fleet and take sexy-looking systems by force?

Taking control of AI opponents would allow you to avoid invasion wait times and population approval issues. Also you can do more complicated and subtle things as well such as giving planets to allies, moving/manipulating problem fleets, or all kinds of crazy things. In other words you can tweak the game reality without going to war.

I want 50 ability points for each of my heroes. Is that a bad thing?

Hi,



The thing that people are describing for cheating is save file modification. It's relatively easy, but considerably harder than what it used to be. The developers have changed the format of the file so that now it is a solid block of text and not a pretty organized file like it used to. As some have said a lot of the things are constantly updating making fid manipulation damn near impossible, however a way around this (and makes for an interesting game still) is to modify the planets that you own. Have 3 useless Gas Giants in your starting system, make them Jungles without terraforming!



If you would be so kind you can go straight to a guide I made on this VERY subject in my signature or by clicking HERE. Thank You and have a good day

Cheating is for wimps.

nats wrote:
Cheating is for wimps.

Then don't cheat.



Your way is not the only way, remember that and respect other people's opinions.

honglath wrote:
I want 50 ability points for each of my heroes. Is that a bad thing?

I actually found the location for that via cheatengine, the max level is only 20....sadly.

Olie wrote:
just save your game open the save game with 7-zip and edit it with notepad or something



dust is under DepartmentOfTheTreasury

Very Very Very BIg Thanks 4 you i just follow your steps and its really work 4 me no more cheats required i have lots of dust

You guys could just get some proper mods and have the same effect - Sandbox-Mod e.g. lol

I had another look at the savegame file. It's still absolutely all over the place, didn't Amplitude say they wanted to tidy it up again (the way it was at the beginning)? Still waiting for that..........

n18991c wrote:
I had another look at the savegame file. It's still absolutely all over the place, didn't Amplitude say they wanted to tidy it up again (the way it was at the beginning)? Still waiting for that..........

Yes i think was some post somewhere...

Change your steam ID in a saved game, then when you load the game you are asked what faction you want to play as. Pick one of the AI factions you want to mess with, and give a few systems away to your faction. Switch everything back and resume.

husker wrote:
Change your steam ID in a saved game, then when you load the game you are asked what faction you want to play as. Pick one of the AI factions you want to mess with, and give a few systems away to your faction. Switch everything back and resume.

That sounds complicated, if interesting Why not just edit the bank account in the save game file, give yourself a lot of money, then build a big fleet and take sexy-looking systems by force?

n18991c wrote:
That sounds complicated, if interesting Why not just edit the bank account in the save game file, give yourself a lot of money, then build a big fleet and take sexy-looking systems by force?

Life isn't that easy, sorry lol

As has been said already, use 7-zip. Open your save game, then right click it to edit it.

n.b post release the save game file looks a bit chaotic, but I think the devs will likely restructure it into orderly columns again when they find a moment...



When editing the save game, search for "empire index", the first one should be empire index = 0, underneath which your faction's stats appear and which you can edit. Alternatively, search for "account" to edit your bank account...



I personally enjoy taking my time building up my empire and don't mind getting my arse handed to me by the AI so I don't make use of cheats myself, but I don't care if people do - all that matters is that you enjoy the game, as long as you don't cheat in multiplayer I don't give a sh*t...

husker wrote:
Taking control of AI opponents would allow you to avoid invasion wait times and population approval issues. Also you can do more complicated and subtle things as well such as giving planets to allies, moving/manipulating problem fleets, or all kinds of crazy things. In other words you can tweak the game reality without going to war.

Basically, modding allows you to change/manipulate everything - you just need to know how to do it

Tredecim wrote:
Basically, modding allows you to change/manipulate everything - you just need to know how to do it

Not EVERYTHING...but yeah, quite a lotb of thing, including FIDS, like Sand Box mod. xD

Madrox wrote:
Not EVERYTHING...but yeah, quite a lotb of thing, including FIDS, like Sand Box mod. xD

Okay almost everything

I don't see why anyone would want to cheat. If your goal is to just flat out win, then play on the newbie level. Once you understand the game, it's damn near impossible to lose on the newbie level. I mean this isn't like SimCity, where the extra money is really helpful.

Thorn wrote:
I don't see why anyone would want to cheat. If your goal is to just flat out win, then play on the newbie level. Once you understand the game, it's damn near impossible to lose on the newbie level. I mean this isn't like SimCity, where the extra money is really helpful.

But...i want to see my gigantic fleet crushing the enemies...ç____ç

Madrox wrote:
But...i want to see my gigantic fleet crushing the enemies...ç____ç

Just depends on how you want to win

Madrox wrote:
But...i want to see my gigantic fleet crushing the enemies...ç____ç

All you have to do is change the xml files and set the requirements for all those custom civ attributes to "1" or "01" and you can build a custom civ that can not possibly be beat. LOL



I tried that once, and it was just WAY to easy and took the fun and adventure out of the game. Now I just play with random civs and let the game roll the dice for me. I don't play at the higher difficultly levels anyway, so it's not like I need the help.

Thorn wrote:
All you have to do is change the xml files and set the requirements for all those custom civ attributes to "1" or "01" and you can build a custom civ that can not possibly be beat. LOL



I tried that once, and it was just WAY to easy and took the fun and adventure out of the game. Now I just play with random civs and let the game roll the dice for me. I don't play at the higher difficultly levels anyway, so it's not like I need the help.

Other way to make it easy, yep

Actualy like with everything ever cheating is only bad because someone said it was

It's not about being bad or good.



Games are not about reaching a certain goal or point, it's about how you get there and when you cheat you basically skip all that progression and jump to the end. If you do that there is no way of getting that accomplishment feeling. Which is the true essence of every game. Therefore I just don't see how can someone actually enjoy the game with cheats. It just doesn't make sense.

I'd just like to weigh in on this flood of elitism in this thread. This is a game, if someones wants to cheat that is their choice and it is not really anyone else right to denigrate them because of it. If they cheat and are still having fun, then the game is doing exactly what it is designed to do, entertain. Entertainment is the goal, and it can be achieved many ways. Just cause you wouldn't have fun cheating doesn't mean this dude wouldn't either.



@OP, I did a quick google.. looks like cheat engine works and there is a ton of trainers about you could risk trying.

adder wrote:
LoL, the point of the game (any game, actually) is not to cheat

Not really as the point of all games is too have fun and do what you want, which contradicts what you said, Also as a modder cheats would make this game a lot easier to test on, as the save games are now super disorganized.

Epic first post ever lol

lol



I guess its a legit question...



I believe the only way to cheat would be to mess with the games code or what not.

amecs wrote:
Hi,



are there any cheats available in singleplayer mode?



- instand build

- dust creation

- ship spawn / despawn ?

Only for the AI.

Thomas.Trainor wrote:
Only for the AI.

Aha, i see what you did there.

just save your game open the save game with 7-zip and edit it with notepad or something



dust is under DepartmentOfTheTreasury

i really have to try Cheat Engine on that game, but not at home atm. did anyone try it yet?

dauerFeuer wrote:
i really have to try Cheat Engine on that game, but not at home atm. did anyone try it yet?

CheatEngine works with the dust, you just search for how much dust you have, make sure to search under 'float' and within a single turn you would have found the locations.

LoL, the point of the game (any game, actually) is not to cheat

JamieK81 wrote:
CheatEngine works with the dust, you just search for how much dust you have, make sure to search under 'float' and within a single turn you would have found the locations.

nice! but manipulating FIDS doesn't work, since it is calculated every round right?

adder wrote:
LoL, the point of the game (any game, actually) is not to cheat

actually, there are a lot of Games where cheating is not that bad, when you are trying to build sth. (f.e. Minecraft,terraria) or if you want to test out the game engine or just want to kill AIs

Cheating in Multiplayer still sucks like hell.

dauerFeuer wrote:
nice! but manipulating FIDS doesn't work, since it is calculated every round right?





actually, there are a lot of Games where cheating is not that bad, when you are trying to build sth. (f.e. Minecraft,terraria) or if you want to test out the game engine or just want to kill AIs

Cheating in Multiplayer still sucks like hell.

erm FIDS?????

JamieK81 wrote:
erm FIDS?????

Food Industry Dust Science

Hi,



are there any cheats available in singleplayer mode?



- instand build

- dust creation

- ship spawn / despawn ?

amecs wrote:
Hi,



are there any cheats available in singleplayer mode?



- instand build

- dust creation

- ship spawn / despawn ?

You could always make a race with all the positive traits available.

Cheating even in SP is baaad

I could understand a desire for this, based off of anything above normal-mode and actually wanting a fighting chance (not invincble, just uber to start) against the AI's.



Otherwise, I don't see any reason for cheat-codes. It's a random game each time, and half of it is seeing what you do in response to the other factions. If you want to cheat, just keep it on newbie level like I do. ^_^ Only thing that makes me keep playing so far. Easy = fair is fair, but Normal = meh. Anything higher is suicide at the moment.

The only reason I'd cheat is in the early phase of my intro to a game, where I'd want to learn the use of each tech for example. For actual gameplay, it gets boring for me at least as I want a challenge and sense of satisfaction when I win.



That said, a variety of memory editors should work, and likely someone will develop a cheat mod done the line as always.

flipstar wrote:
The only reason I'd cheat is in the early phase of my intro to a game, where I'd want to learn the use of each tech for example. For actual gameplay, it gets boring for me at least as I want a challenge and sense of satisfaction when I win.



That said, a variety of memory editors should work, and likely someone will develop a cheat mod done the line as always.

Here is my opinion and since everyone seems to be forcing their opinion on everyone, i will force mine onto all of you anti-cheaters.



Multiplayer cheating = VERY bad



Singleplayer cheating = Who the hell, f**king cares?



End of story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPNrZtNLVHU&feature=youtube



here is a glitch that helps alot ^^

JamieK81 wrote:
Here is my opinion and since everyone seems to be forcing their opinion on everyone, i will force mine onto all of you anti-cheaters.



Multiplayer cheating = VERY bad



Singleplayer cheating = Who the hell, f**king cares?



End of story.

Haha, very true.



But on a serious not, I believe the devs could implement some sort of 'cheat' trait that is unable to be assigned on multiplayer, but on singleplayer allowed for unlimited trait choice (like the current cancel->exit trait glitch at the moment), as well as unlocks access to some sort of in-game menu with instant click the win features (i.e. click to add 1000 dust, etc. as well as toggles such as unlock all research, super planet (high fids bonus), etc.)



While it may rank low on their to-do list, an 'opt-in' cheat menu/system shouldn't be too hard to add, and should please many players indeed (even just knowing you have access to cheats, i.e. GTA/Saints Row phone cheats, is satisfying).

dauerFeuer wrote:
nice! but manipulating FIDS doesn't work, since it is calculated every round right?





actually, there are a lot of Games where cheating is not that bad, when you are trying to build sth. (f.e. Minecraft,terraria) or if you want to test out the game engine or just want to kill AIs

Cheating in Multiplayer still sucks like hell.

There is no "cheats" in minecraft... It's called creative mode or spawning blocks.

krythorian wrote:
There is no "cheats" in minecraft... It's called creative mode or spawning blocks.

There are some kind of cheats, if you count mods as cheats.



Back to topic: I would like to have some cheats just to test things out. But its not that important because you can use the easiest difficulty as well for that.

adder wrote:
LoL, the point of the game (any game, actually) is not to cheat

But yeah sometimes it is fun to jerk around with cheats after you have played the game for a while.To show AI WHO'S BOSS!

really epic XD