Topic: Cheat for a middle aged slowpoke in single player campaign?

[George]

Being a middle-aged, and slow(er) gamer, I would appreciate help getting through some of these missions in single player campaign.  I am talking about a cheat for either arming faster or getting better shields.  I just can't keep up with the twists and turns the way I used to.  Just don't have my daughter's ability to click around everything in milliseconds.  Any help for me, or am I going to have to sell this game?  Thanks.  

[Dash Jones]

I don't think there are cheats...

If you are having problems you could edit a few files before beginning, like giving yourself tons of prestige...but I don't think there are any cheats...except that if you have a bink player you can see the end movies without playing through the SP campaign.

[Stormbringer]

You can slow game speed down to a crawl with the bracket keys. Left bracket slows it down and right bracket speeds up the action. At slow speed you have more than enough reaction time to fiddle with the controls. To alter the shields you could use word pad to edit the strength of the shields and the power required for them. In the specs file you can add items to your ship without paying for them in prestigeor alter the mass limits for various systems. If you edit the files make sure you copy the original file first so you can replace it if you mess up or if you decide to go on line (modified files are checked for by the servers). Also you need to make sure you do not leave always use this program on to open this type of file or your game may no longer recognize a file it needs to work. Just playing with the speed should be enough to do what you want though. Hope this helps.  

[Holocat]

For OP
1.  you can use any notepad editor to give yourself lots and lots of prestiege in the metaassets/singleplayer folder.  I forget specifically the file, but if you do want to do this, hollar and I go find out again.

For all SFC
1. the [] brackets slow and speed up the game, if you don't want to cheat, but need reaction time.  They can be set to different keys, so check out your hotkeys tab to see if they're the ones.

3.  You can use shipedit to make a ridiculously powerful superbattleship;  This severly unbalances the game however, and makes some SFC missions impossible, as your fighting a copy of yourself (and fighting a copy of yourself when you've armed yourself with 20 ph 4's is a really, really, nasty fight.)  Remember, all ships of the type you edit will become a super battleship;  IE, if you edit the F-DD, ALL F-DD's will have this design, not just yours.
  Also note that the computer will know if you cheat in this manner and swiftly kick you out of multiplayer if you try.

For SFC 1:
I've only been able to modify personal areas of the game with a hex editor, so it's not reccomended.  With a hex editor however, you CAN edit every aspect of your personal save file (current prestiege, career prestiege, medals, training/techincal badges, ships owned, officer experience levels and officer names) to some degree.  Unless you have some rudimentary understanding of hex though, it's not reccomended.  

[George]

Thank you for the suggestions.  I have slowed down the game speed, and given myself some prestige to get the big ships.  
Great community!  Keep up the good work.  

[George]

Being a middle-aged, and slow(er) gamer, I would appreciate help getting through some of these missions in single player campaign.  I am talking about a cheat for either arming faster or getting better shields.  I just can't keep up with the twists and turns the way I used to.  Just don't have my daughter's ability to click around everything in milliseconds.  Any help for me, or am I going to have to sell this game?  Thanks.  

[Dash Jones]

I don't think there are cheats...

If you are having problems you could edit a few files before beginning, like giving yourself tons of prestige...but I don't think there are any cheats...except that if you have a bink player you can see the end movies without playing through the SP campaign.

[Stormbringer]

You can slow game speed down to a crawl with the bracket keys. Left bracket slows it down and right bracket speeds up the action. At slow speed you have more than enough reaction time to fiddle with the controls. To alter the shields you could use word pad to edit the strength of the shields and the power required for them. In the specs file you can add items to your ship without paying for them in prestigeor alter the mass limits for various systems. If you edit the files make sure you copy the original file first so you can replace it if you mess up or if you decide to go on line (modified files are checked for by the servers). Also you need to make sure you do not leave always use this program on to open this type of file or your game may no longer recognize a file it needs to work. Just playing with the speed should be enough to do what you want though. Hope this helps.  

[Holocat]

For OP
1.  you can use any notepad editor to give yourself lots and lots of prestiege in the metaassets/singleplayer folder.  I forget specifically the file, but if you do want to do this, hollar and I go find out again.

For all SFC
1. the [] brackets slow and speed up the game, if you don't want to cheat, but need reaction time.  They can be set to different keys, so check out your hotkeys tab to see if they're the ones.

3.  You can use shipedit to make a ridiculously powerful superbattleship;  This severly unbalances the game however, and makes some SFC missions impossible, as your fighting a copy of yourself (and fighting a copy of yourself when you've armed yourself with 20 ph 4's is a really, really, nasty fight.)  Remember, all ships of the type you edit will become a super battleship;  IE, if you edit the F-DD, ALL F-DD's will have this design, not just yours.
  Also note that the computer will know if you cheat in this manner and swiftly kick you out of multiplayer if you try.

For SFC 1:
I've only been able to modify personal areas of the game with a hex editor, so it's not reccomended.  With a hex editor however, you CAN edit every aspect of your personal save file (current prestiege, career prestiege, medals, training/techincal badges, ships owned, officer experience levels and officer names) to some degree.  Unless you have some rudimentary understanding of hex though, it's not reccomended.  

[George]

Thank you for the suggestions.  I have slowed down the game speed, and given myself some prestige to get the big ships.  
Great community!  Keep up the good work.