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I use another text editor but had a normal looking file for mine.

I'm using the Steam version so it's possible the file is different if you got the retail version of the game.

Try without the overlay change but I suspect it's needed to enable the interface to come up where you can use it.

So far my playing around hasn't been TOO useful yet. Still playing with it to find something that "works" as expected.

How do you edit YOUR cities, gold, and culture?

all i've managed to do with the debug mode was to reveal the terrain. Some help pretty please?

You can create a ton of merchants, scientists, and engineers to cheat if you want.

Not sure how to use them after creating them. I can't select them after creating them....trying to figure that out.

[Edited by Regs, 9/21/2010 5:10:44 PM]

It seems to be creating units with a no-player ID associated with them. They are uncontrollable. I haven't figured out how to change it even though there are a few places where you can select a player number.

The one cheat as stated already that does work well is the reveal all. Removes the FOW completely from the game which can be helpful but AFAIK will prevent you from making exploration discoveries which give a lot of benefits especially early on.

The change/add border command keeps giving it to England (playing as America) in my game. No way to change it it seems. And the units and cities you can create seem to be added to the game with no owner for me. Wonder how they tested the game with what seems to be a half complete debug tool =P

[Edited by Chunder, 9/21/2010 8:24:49 PM]

Seems to be limited to the demo, i'm actually thinking they might have added some kind of encryption to the file because they don't want players trying to avoid the 100-turn limit, heck it might even be defined in the config.ini for all we know.

i kinda got past the 100 turn limit. lol

burt you get stuck after you research all the tech that is available in the demo.