Cheat Keys?

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I have a question:
Why is there an option in the in-game options menu to "Enable Cheat Keys."

I haven't played this game in awhile(4-5 mos., I think). In the meantime, I upgraded my OS and was forced to reinstall GalCiv. At the same time, I downloaded and installed the new expansion pack. When I was going thru the in-game options menu, I noticed the option, "Enable Cheat Keys."

First of all, I was under the(apparently incorrect) impression that there weren't any "built-in" cheats in this game.

Secondly, why the heck would someone want to cheat, in the first place. I can't imagine that cheating in this particular game would be enjoyable. Don't get me wrong: certain games make cheating a lot of fun; but this one doesn't seem like it's one of those. Maybe I'm wrong. For me, one of the most enjoyable aspects of this GalCiv is the challenge of fighting to win against all the odds.

I realize that there is probably some enormous, glaring fact that I have missed that would make all of this excruciatingly clear. Mark it down to inexperience and good, old-fashioned ignorance. Please feel free, anyone, to enlighten me.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
They were added in the expansion pack that was free to download with the patches. If you use them you cannot submit that game to the Metaverse.

The codes are:

CTRL A - Adds hit points, move points, attack points and defense points to selected ship.

CTRL B - Creates a battleship at the cursor.

CTRL C - Copys the selected ship.

CTRL E - Decreases morality.

CTRL G - Increases morality.

CTRL H - Heals selected ship and restores it's movement.

CTRL J - All human planets complete their military and social projects instantly.

CTRL L - Assigns all inhabitable planets and resources to the major races.

CTRL M - Adds $1000

CTRL O - Creates an anomoly at cursor (sometimes doesn't work, sometimes does)

CTRL P - Vastly increases the class of all planets in selected star.

CTRL S - finish research on current tech instantly.

CTRL SHIFT S - All techs except for final frontier are fully researched instantly.

CTRL T - Teleports selected ship to cursor.

CTRL U - Clears the fog of war.

CTRL V - Creates random ship at cursor.

CTRL Y - Creates colony ship at cursor.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Also, these cheats HAVE been in the game the whole time--just not accessible to the user. The devs use them to quickly test out new/fixed features, etc.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
everytime i press CTRL L the game crashes back to desktop! any ideas? (:(
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
They are there just for fun. Use them or don't - it's up to you. They also make it easy to test out some "what if" scenarios.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
everytime i press CTRL L the game crashes back to desktop! any ideas?
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Don't press CTRL L. ;)

On a more serious note make sure you have cheat keys enabled - yes in the options menu.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
just worked out if pressed in game screen it crashes, but on menu screen works ok. thanks anyway Elden :)
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
i use the cheat key for dividing up the universe amongst all the races so i can avoid the initial rush for planets (which i always lose).
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Ditto. The one thing that puts me off a game of GalCivs is always losin the planet rush.

~SDC~
Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top
Losing the land rush?

Go to a smaller map ("small" or smaller) with no speed mod on the race, or use a speed +2 or speed +1 for the larger maps. That will help a lot. With the speed mod you will have to get use lower stats in other areas.
This game is very well balanced so you will always have trade offs.