The most famous ('infamous') known cheats are: 1) The Shift-56 cheat I saved, quit, and deleted all the barbarian units! I got a 400 year breathing space out of that… I don’t like the barbarians, and I wish Civ had an option to turn them off. I was handling them easily, but got tired of them. I described above a game where I edited the save file to give myself an incredible advantage, and then set myself an unusual goal in addition to the normal goal of just winning.Īnother time recently, I was getting too many barbarians. Where XX and YY are the latitude and longitude try 2020 as a start. If there are no barbarian units, you get a 'Centuries Later…' ending this means you need to give yourself a Barbarian settler, by writing, at offset 0x26c0 of the file, To play the barbarians, change byte 2 to a zero. There is always a chance that the game will crash when you save, because the difficulty level is used to index the strings 'Chieftain.

To play at difficulty level 6, you must change the tenth byte of the save file to a 6. You need a lot of extra advantages to win at difficulty level 6. The computer builds a militia with about 3 or 4 resources. The computer does not labor under such a disadvantage its unhappiness is still Prince level, I think. Be the barbarians.Īt difficulty level 6, you have no contented citizens at all, even when your city size is 1 (one!). Edit the unit definitions and play with different kinds of military units. Be creative! Give the Romans a battleship in 3980 BC and see if you can still beat them! Try playing difficulty level 5, which is worse than Emperor, but start yourself with extra advantages to make up for it. (I try never to cheat at all, but occasionally can’t resist using the fast-settler.)Įditing the save file just to give yourself huge amounts of cash is boring. I play most games honestly, and don’t edit the save file just for the sake of winning sometimes I edit the save file in order to create unusual and interesting situations. The one exception is editing the save file. There are lots of ways to cheat, but most of them make the game less interesting.

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