Patch 109 breaks cheats?

[Dtry]

For the love of YHWH, Buddha, Allah, Jesus, Vishnu, and whatever other deity people might worship...

No, this is NOT a joke. I am completely serious. I am for real.

There are very few "Ironmen" out there. People who play without using at least one cheat (running the gamut from saving before a major battle, all the way up to editing the map and giving yourself gold and anachronistic units) are rare.

Here's a little shocker for you: Not everyone who buys a strategy game will be an expert strategist. They're not going to be able to compete even with the anemic opposition the AI can put out. If game companies only sold to the purists, the ones who can regularly defeat the game on deity or above, they'd go bankrupt. And yet, these purists feel the need to look down on the run-of-the-mill gamer.

Argh. Go ahead and keep abusing single-player (as opposed to multiplayer) cheaters. Drive them away from turn-based 4x games. Reduce the consumer base of the games you most love. It's not like we won't experience another drought of decent games, right? And it's not like there aren't a half-dozen other genres willing to cater to them, to take their money (RTS, FPS, sims, and so on).

Seriously, what are the ages of the people with whom I'm arguing? I've played these games for going on 20 years now, I know of what I speak.

AMEN.

Please do not look down on me for having to cheat a little in a single player game. I will play the game, the way I like to play it. I paid for it with my money. What I do with it is my business.

 

[Blind_Monkey]

Does anyone kno whether the cheats work with the demo? I can't seem to get them to work, after altering the file I can't get the console.

And before anyone says anything, I am cheating soley for the purposes of playing around with the various options abvaliable to me in the demo, ie its impossible to expand and have a large military due to the time constraints. I have ordered the game online and am waiting for delivery and wish to experiment with the demo before I get the actual game.

 

[jimkirk]

what are the cheat codes anyways? never knew they existed in civ

 

[Blind_Monkey]

apparently they exist in civ 4, but i cant get them to work in the demo.....

 

[GinandTonic]

live and let live live fellas. though the point of cheating a solo tts escapes me.

Spitfire... more style.