Why not implement a cheat like that...

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In 1.10 you introduced the cheatcodes... However there are really few that seem to make any sense at all...

All these copy ship to cursor or add shipofthistype to cursor things are quite useless!

I want this thread for the people to make suggestions of what cheats theyd' really like to see!

I personally would like to have a cheat to kill the minors! (of course one could easyly expand that to kill majors aswell)

Frogboy said that making a game-option to disable the minors would require to redo the game menu what would be too much work for a little patch... But since there already are cheat-codes in, why don't allow me to get rid of the minors that way? I think theres really few programming required to realize this!

I see the cheat-codes less as an possibility to give me an advantage but to add some more options to the game!
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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Actually, I'd like to see a "spawn random minor civ" cheat, also. But that would actually make the game too easy. Instant cash cow! :CONGRAT:
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I'd love to have the AI take over running my empire and see what it does with my settings. :)

I saw in another thread, someone asking for a cheat to enable ALL the races to finish off the Tech tree; except for Final Frontier. It should be an interesting game if this cheat is enabled; especially at the start of a new game. :)
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
How about a "Nuke Alien Race and Let Me Dance Upon Their Smoking Corpses Because They're Really Annoying the Crap Out Of Me Right Now" cheat? Or better yet, a button right next to End/Next Turn?

...grumble grumble Arceans grumble...
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Heh...actually I have a cheat code that I didn't give you guys access to that lets me make any AI player surrender, and a few others.  I just gave you the ones that you could use as learning tools.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Oh, you mean the Alt-Ctrl-H + Shift-I ? Yeah, that's a great one! LOL

Just kiddin'!
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Heh...actually I have a cheat code that I didn't give you guys access to that lets me make any AI player surrender.
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And where's the point of that? Even if you were not just kidding, I think that cheats if existant at all shall make it possible to alter the gameplay in a way you aren't givin by the options and not simply in giving the player useless 1-way-advances... So Ctrl-J is a good one but all the rest is kinda stuff I don't think anyone can think of a way to enhance ones gameplay with...

Sorry for my probably a bit strange style of using your language! ;)
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Well, you're the one who wanted the cheat for killing minor races.  The surrender cheat key would be effectively the same thing, except that you'd get all their stars. 

The original purpose of any cheat key is a tool for the developer to be able to artificially create situations to test a new feature or try to reproduce a bug.  If you think that some of our cheats are useless, you should see some of the cheats in the Neverwinter Nights. 

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
The surrender cheat key would be effectively the same thing, except that you'd get all their stars.
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No! It would not! The minors are only there to be exploited by the human player and by removing them it would create a more fair game. Letting them surrender is not really the same this way... however I could let them surrender and then abandon their worlds so this would come close to what I am looking for...

Well the only thing I now miss is the knowledge if there really is a cheat like that and if yes how it does work!

In your last post it did sound like everybody would surrender and not that you could choose who!
Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top
Well the only thing I now miss is the knowledge if there really is a cheat like that and if yes how it does work!
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We don't have it, what she said is the people at Stardock have it but they didn't give it to us.

~SDC~
Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, how are the chances than to implement that in a patch?
Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

No, I choose who surrenders. :)

I'd have to ask Brad, since that's one of the ones that we left out intentionally.  And it won't help those of you who want to submit to the metaverse anyway.  But I believe that Brad will be tweaking the minors in one of the non-expansion updates. 

Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top
If you think that some of our cheats are useless, you should see some of the cheats in the Neverwinter Nights.
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or Age of Mythology (spawn Forkboy and/or Flying Purple Hippo!)
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
What about Baldur's Gate and it's famous Cow-Kill spell. Now I never have to fear cows again...

Oh, and the spawn chickens cheat. Summon some mighty mean chickens to fight for you.

;p
Reply #15 from Stardock Forums Top
And it won't help those of you who want to submit to the metaverse anyway.
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I play the game for my personal fun and not to compete in the metaverse...
Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top
I don't know if this cheat already exists but I would really like to know what the AI's have there settings at and what they have built and what their bonuses are etc... ;) . If there is a "Look at the AI's screens" cheat I'd like to know it. This would help to understand how different majors play the game. Afterall, I never see a post on the strategies forum from the Arcean or the Yor :notsure: