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Sole Soul - thank you very much for the links!!! Map generator is indeed a very nifty tool that greatly expands potential gaming scenarios. Your previous suggestion regarding adding "cheat" to direct shortcut vs. launcher’s shortcut was right on the spot - I spend past 6 hours opening maps, generating all planetary and mega events, etc - plain fun. I also can confirm that game's default relative probabilities for different hostile environment planets are

Sole Soul, how would you then open the map (as if you have already scouted the whole area)? I want to start playing on a higher difficulty for the AI on tiny map, but would like to give myself the best chance by knowing in what direction to expand. Also, I chose abundent extreme planets and myself as isolationist, but out of 10-15 extreme planets I have seen from discovering 20-25% of the map, NONE were Barren. The bulk was Aquatic and Radioactive, and one Heavy Gravity. I would like

Nubie Q: How can I activate cheats? I added to the starting shortcut word "cheat", but Cntl+U to open map still does not work. Please help, since you obviously do get what you need. Thanks.