Developer "Cheats" feature/idea discussion

[Epi3B1rD]

I love to play C2C on higher difficulties and with extra challenges, but I also love to use World Builder and XML file edits on some saves to turn the game into a simple building wonders, improvements, and technologies by each turn kinda program. Sure, it defeats the purpose of the game, but I want to be able to use the scenarios I create by playing around with the game as inspiration for science fantasy writing that I'm looking to create based off C2C "lore" (the timeline of the entire tech tree).

Could I use Python/XML to add a menu that can enable features in game like not having to worry about education or crime, or allowing for more gold or golden age turns, without having to wait for World Builder to open up every time I want to make an edit? Perhaps the menu could be enabled by a keyboard shortcut.

I saw what you guys have been doing with World Builder in SVN/GitHub btw, brilliant stuff!

 

[Somebody613]

Cheat Engine is clearly one of your buddies here, lol.

 

[Toffer90]

Could I use Python/XML to add a menu that can enable features in game like not having to worry about education or crime, or allowing for more gold or golden age turns, without having to wait for World Builder to open up every time I want to make an edit? Perhaps the menu could be enabled by a keyboard shortcut.

That is possible, yes.