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Where is the cheats.... I need them bad!

Sadly, this game doesn't have any built in, well according to the gameplay.

any cheating we will be able to do will be from a trainer.

I watched one of the live broadcasts they did about a week before launch and they mentioned that there was going to be a tweaker or something to that extent that people would need to enable in a config file before it was used. It sounded like this would function similarly to the world builder in civ4. However I didn't see anything on a cursory look in the folder and I know a world builder isn't available yet- so alternate methods might be available when that's released, but my guess would be we'll see a trainer first anyway.

Edit: in Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5 theres a usersettings file that has a debugmode=0 line so changing that to 1 might give some options I'm gonna mess around with it I'll post if anything works

[Edited by BenSully, 9/21/2010 1:41:41 PM]

The SDK is coming out, it will include a program for managing mods which can be enabled for a given game.

Still expecting these guys to come out with something this week for it (that is if they are playing it).

btw using CoSMOS you can change how many turns you have played in the demo version, since if you reach 100 the demo ends already tested and that works search the turn number in 4 bytes..

Enable debug mode by setting your two INI files as follows:

UserSettings.INI
DebugMode = 1

Config.INI
; Set to 1 to activate the debug panel
DebugPanel = 1
; Set to 1 to disable OverlayDebug system
OverlayDebug = 0

Files are located in ~\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\

Once in the game press "~" to open the debug menu. You can reveal all, edit cities etc.

Enjoy

You said i should edit the config.ini file? Am I the only one with just a bunch of jibberish in it? (Opened with notepad)

That's what I edited it with as well, it was plain text for me. The first thing that comes to mind is maybe if you're playing the demo? I got my version through steam, but don't think that's the difference..