How to get more Colonists without spam loading

[briancourt2]

okay so I try at least 5 times before I do this, but if I feel I "deserve" a colonist right now, there is a way to do this.

1) search in %appdata% to find the stranded Alien Dawn folder.
or find it the hardway...
C:\Users\your username here\AppData\Roaming\Stranded - Alien Dawn
2) inside find the LocalStorage.lua file.
Edit it with notepad, or better yet notepad++.
3) Add Top two lines for the following:
Platform.cheats = true
Platform.developer = true
4) Save the file (note after exiting the game later these two lines will get erased)
5) Open game and load your game.
6) hit the ~ key to open cheat menu.
7) Under first column for Cheat, add Character and select the one you want.
8) now I save and quit and come back in to get rid of the power, but you can just hit ~ again to close the menu. Note there is a lot in here to play with and probably break your game, so don't go off the reservation without a backup.

From what I can tell, this did not impact my ability to find new characters on my own, just saved me from saving/loading 50 times.

Only downside is you pick your character which isn't exactly how the spam loading works, but hey - you can get what you want.

I sometimes start off the game with more characters. If you think adding 8 more right away would be fun, food maybe an issue, so plan accordingly.

Giving yourself a colonist at the start of each new year, after a failed expedition to get a person feels good.

[Furball]

I wonder if I can resurrect Connor this way...

[Rolf]

Originally posted by Furball:

I wonder if I can resurrect Connor this way...

why would you want to do that ;)

[Rogue]

If you wanna cheat, go all in. Right :) Why pretend like food scarcity or whatever nonsense. Heh.

[Rolf]

Originally posted by Rogue:

If you wanna cheat, go all in. Right :) Why pretend like food scarcity or whatever nonsense. Heh.

I do remember using a hex editor back in the mid to late 80s to hack my character files in The Bard's Tale 3 on my Amiga 500.

I mean those were the days. Learning, "hacking", getting more HP and gold. Fun times.

[Lucius Corvus]

I just left Grand thieft auto because the cheaters took over the game and booted the devs out on band for life powers they gave them self's lol. naa think just play as is

[Rolf]

Originally posted by Lucius Corvus:

I just left Grand thieft auto because the cheaters took over the game and booted the devs out on band for life powers they gave them self's lol. naa think just play as is

can't beat playing it like it is

[briancourt2]

I always get a kick out of the idea of this being cheating, and reloading a game over and over again isn't. or luck isn't the same thing. How much pain to get the entertainment you wanted. How is that different than say creating a mod. Oh but the guy who reloads spent a lot of effort to get it and deserves it.. but doesn't the guy who figures out how to more efficiently get the experience they want, also deserving. Going all in, well than there isn't really an experience is there. Seriously the seed determines the luck. Why is everyone okay with that? Oh the developer god, said it is, there it is. So If someone posts a seed that gives you 12 characters and you use it, that is cheating. Some of you need to come down off the morality tree and understand the world of choice. Do I want the experience the developer intended or the experience some people want? I see a ton of people loading a game 100 times. Is that really what they wanted? The game scales. So even if you cheat in more characters that isn't going to make the game easier. Just play as is, I can respect, but don't pretend that is pure or natural. You can certainly beat the experience given by influencing the experience you wanted. Don't limit your life by those that dictate what you should get.

I guess for some editing a game is like magic and preverse, while to others it is like changing the channel.

[Docsprock]

Originally posted by briancourt2:

I always get a kick out of the idea of this being cheating, and reloading a game over and over again isn't. or luck isn't the same thing. How much pain to get the entertainment you wanted. How is that different than say creating a mod. Oh but the guy who reloads spent a lot of effort to get it and deserves it.. but doesn't the guy who figures out how to more efficiently get the experience they want, also deserving. Going all in, well than there isn't really an experience is there. Seriously the seed determines the luck. Why is everyone okay with that? Oh the developer god, said it is, there it is. So If someone posts a seed that gives you 12 characters and you use it, that is cheating. Some of you need to come down off the morality tree and understand the world of choice. Do I want the experience the developer intended or the experience some people want? I see a ton of people loading a game 100 times. Is that really what they wanted? The game scales. So even if you cheat in more characters that isn't going to make the game easier. Just play as is, I can respect, but don't pretend that is pure or natural. You can certainly beat the experience given by influencing the experience you wanted. Don't limit your life by those that dictate what you should get.

I guess for some editing a game is like magic and preverse, while to others it is like changing the channel.

It is a single-player game. You cannot 'cheat' a game by yourself. Use the developer console, use mods, use the in-game options.

It is not cheating. It is utilizing available tools to enhance ones gaming experience.

[johnisaroundhere]

I love this. Thanks.

[briancourt2]

Originally posted by Docsprock:

Originally posted by briancourt2:

I always get a kick out of the idea of this being cheating, and reloading a game over and over again isn't. or luck isn't the same thing. How much pain to get the entertainment you wanted. How is that different than say creating a mod. Oh but the guy who reloads spent a lot of effort to get it and deserves it.. but doesn't the guy who figures out how to more efficiently get the experience they want, also deserving. Going all in, well than there isn't really an experience is there. Seriously the seed determines the luck. Why is everyone okay with that? Oh the developer god, said it is, there it is. So If someone posts a seed that gives you 12 characters and you use it, that is cheating. Some of you need to come down off the morality tree and understand the world of choice. Do I want the experience the developer intended or the experience some people want? I see a ton of people loading a game 100 times. Is that really what they wanted? The game scales. So even if you cheat in more characters that isn't going to make the game easier. Just play as is, I can respect, but don't pretend that is pure or natural. You can certainly beat the experience given by influencing the experience you wanted. Don't limit your life by those that dictate what you should get.

I guess for some editing a game is like magic and preverse, while to others it is like changing the channel.

It is a single-player game. You cannot 'cheat' a game by yourself. Use the developer console, use mods, use the in-game options.

It is not cheating. It is utilizing available tools to enhance ones gaming experience.

I tend to agree. At least in philosophy. Technically it is still cheating, but I am okay with it. No harm to anyone else, is a decent rule on that one. Most single player games make it easier to do this by making a console that is available much easier....

[Martin]

Don't need cheats. Just play the game, you'll get more suvivors.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by briancourt2:

Originally posted by Docsprock:

It is a single-player game. You cannot 'cheat' a game by yourself. Use the developer console, use mods, use the in-game options.

It is not cheating. It is utilizing available tools to enhance ones gaming experience.

I tend to agree. At least in philosophy. Technically it is still cheating, but I am okay with it. No harm to anyone else, is a decent rule on that one. Most single player games make it easier to do this by making a console that is available much easier....

Depends, if someone cheats and spread skewed information, completely wrong or just plain spoilers, about the game after the fact. For example, "why hungering pests appear in my base" is a red flag due to the use of cheats.

Not good, you can cheat just don't deny it or downplay the artificial non difficulty like food scarcity where it no longer exist in a cheater's world.

If that someone is monetized in any form and never declare any cheat use, even worse. Well.. Until he's caught and his credibility is all gone.

[briancourt2]

Originally posted by Rogue:

Originally posted by briancourt2:

I tend to agree. At least in philosophy. Technically it is still cheating, but I am okay with it. No harm to anyone else, is a decent rule on that one. Most single player games make it easier to do this by making a console that is available much easier....

Depends, if someone cheats and spread skewed information, completely wrong or just plain spoilers, about the game after the fact. For example, "why hungering pests appear in my base" is a red flag due to the use of cheats.

Not good, you can cheat just don't deny it or downplay the artificial non difficulty like food scarcity where it no longer exist in a cheater's world.

If that someone is monetized in any form and never declare any cheat use, even worse. Well.. Until he's caught and his credibility is all gone.

I am not even sure I understood what you were trying to say, sorry. If someone makes a youTube video of it, and makes money? I am okay with that. That be like saying people who report bugs and monetize it. Like alpha users?

[Raisti]

Originally posted by Rolf:

Originally posted by Rogue:

If you wanna cheat, go all in. Right :) Why pretend like food scarcity or whatever nonsense. Heh.

I do remember using a hex editor back in the mid to late 80s to hack my character files in The Bard's Tale 3 on my Amiga 500.

I mean those were the days. Learning, "hacking", getting more HP and gold. Fun times.

Ah the old times, I had 2 Friends playing 3D Tetris on my PC in a competition who gets the highest Score. One Day i said to 1 of those friends i know how to edit the scores (also via hexeditor) and we had some fun, he always getting a new Highscore, while the other friend was wondering how he did it :D

[Martin]

I knew a game everyone kept cheating in.
Now it's a dead game. That noone plays.