About cheating against IA

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As far as I can think about it right now, the ways of cheating in EU1 are, in (IMHO) increasing "gravity of the sin" order:

1) Modifying slightly the scripts (i.e. to give some colonists to a minor nation).

2) Reloading after a really distasteful random event (i.e. halved tech investments or -3 stability).

3) Modifying heavily the scripts (i.e. to give your nation immortal king and leaders, with "super" statistics).

4) Reloading sometimes for heavy reasons (i.e. seeing your war campaing in going nowhere, to try to "rewind" and prepare it better).

5) Reloading really often (i.e. after every damned battle that goes wrong).

6) Using cheat codes.

(Maybe or probably I forgot something. Any adding is welcome!)

I do confess my sins and admit I sometimes sinned of sins 2) and 4) in my first games, but I am now amending my ways and "trying" to avoid cheating.

But the real question I wanted to ask to you people is: any of these are YOUR "cheating sins" too? And how often do you happen to sin?

 

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My (decreasing) sequence would be:
1) Using cheat codes.

2) Modifying heavily the scripts (i.e. to give your nation immortal king and leaders, with "super" statistics).

3) Modifying slightly the scripts (i.e. to give some colonists to a minor nation) and don't tell it.

4) Reloading after a really distasteful random event (i.e. halved tech investments or -3 stability).

5) Reloading sometimes for heavy reasons (i.e. seeing your war campaing in going nowhere, to try to "rewind" and prepare it better).

6) Reloading really often (i.e. after every damned battle that goes wrong).

I must admit being guilty of 5) - I often experiment with a war campaign which seems to be going nowhere - would there have been a better strategy? What if France had concentrated on Spain instead of Austria?

 

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Through out my time playing EU 1 I have used nr 1, 5 and 6 (numbered by sherlock). How ever these was used in my early game play and I barely use them anymore unless its for checking stuff for a new scenario or such =) I did how ever learn a thing or two by modifying the scripts =)

 

[saskganesh]

how about exploiting AI patterns as a "soft cheat?"

 

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I sometimes will change the BB rating if i'm sick of fighting BB wars but doing anything like changing amount of money defeats the purpose of the game.

 

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I must admit, I usually start games with cheats (I cant survive), and later, when Ive won the whole DAMNED GAME, I try it out without ANY CHEATS WHATSOEVER!!! It is in these cases that it is better to keep than annex vassals...