I'm mildly crazy, asking for save-related help

[Shunyaku]

Soooooooooooo
I've got nearly 200 hours in the game so far, but I have some insanely bad habits relating to perfectionism and just myriad stupid little details that barely even make sense to me let alone anyone else, and it has made quite a few bits of progression just... unideal, to say the least.

In truth, the farthest I've progressed yet due to just my awful love for dragging my feet, is the completion of tier 2 research, with the exception of soybeans which I HAD found the seed for, but by then I'd torn down my labs so I decided to leave it for tier 3. You know, before I decided to scrap the island.

I have no idea if I'm simply incompetent, or what, but try as I might I have failed miserably at installing Captain of Cheats, and of course a cheat table is essentially 100% hopeless given not just the less-than-static nature of the game at this current juncture, but the overall niche genre to which this game calls home, even if IMO it in it's current iteration bears potential to be one of the greatest factory/automation games made to date.
For the curious, I say current iteration because although I have very fuzzy memories and can find ZERO evidence anywhere, I'm fairly sure I tried this out something between 2 and 5 years ago, and just felt it needed way more polish than yet present. Frankly I'm quite happy, if I'm correct, that the devs scrapped the internal factory planning system, at least form now. God I hated planning those belts.

Um so sorry for the ramble

The TL;DR of it all is that I'm fickle and crazy, and have come to beg for either help making the cheat work, or access to a save file for the "challenging" map with at least the first 3 tiers of tech researched and infrastructure as bare-bones as possible. Couldn't care less about available buildings or vehicles so long as I can actually assemble a small factory with whatever remains and sustain myself.

If that's impossible for various reasons no real big deal, I'll just have another 350 or so hours before I'm satisfied with all I've learned as to creating my version of a "perfect start"

I suppose tips on how/where to edit files for starting resources would also solve my dilemma, though I... THINK I've noted that to be even harder for my fool mind?
I was so sure being in the first PC generation I'd never have issues being confused by software, yet here I am.

[Captain Zuff]

I could assist you with Captain of Cheats install.

1. Download the latest Captain of Cheats zip (as of this post it is v2.1.0):
https://github.com/altmank/CaptainOfCheats/releases
2. Extract it to "%APPDATA%\Captain of Industry\Mods" so that your folder structure has the Captain of Cheats folder inside of "C:\Users\<YOURUSERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Captain of Industry\Mods"
3. Launch the game, enable mods in the settings page (requires restart), and then when starting a new game you can check the box for the mod.

If you have any further issues let me know.

[Shunyaku]

Originally posted by Captain Zuff:

I could assist you with Captain of Cheats install.

1. Download the latest Captain of Cheats zip (as of this post it is v2.1.0):
https://github.com/altmank/CaptainOfCheats/releases
2. Extract it to "%APPDATA%\Captain of Industry\Mods" so that your folder structure has the Captain of Cheats folder inside of "C:\Users\<YOURUSERNAME>\AppData\Roaming\Captain of Industry\Mods"
3. Launch the game, enable mods in the settings page (requires restart), and then when starting a new game you can check the box for the mod.

If you have any further issues let me know.

The biggest struggle I'm having here, is that Captrain of Industry does NOT default to a direct appdata folder.
/Roaming has a root Captain of Industry folder, seems to be where save files are kept, and then there's a Mafi Games/Captain of Industry folder branch in /LocalLow
I... cannot recall which ones I had to create the Mods folder for that is within, and which if any came defaulted.

I also tried to make an actual appdata/captain folder, but the game can't read any of the like... five instances of the /mods folder sequence I've created out of confusion and hope that I'm just confused on where to do things.

At this point however, if I really am just confused where it should go... I can conceive no possibility other than I'm just 100% incapable of comprehending github and it's related uses.

Oh and though all the instructions that are similar to your reply tell me I want the final folder (In this case I guess Mods/CaptainofIndustry?) to have a Captain of Cheats.dll file... I can't find such a file anywhere at all, and have no idea again if I'm just overlooking it, or it's hidden weirdly.


This is however a reply I am making based on what attempts I have made in the past, I'm going to try to follow your instructions there step-by-step and hope I just missed something on my own. Will update after.

[Shunyaku]

Immediate update; your link has a DLL file, and the one I found last night did not.
I think you may have instantly found my problem.

[Shunyaku]

It's working!
Thank you Zuff, this was really upsetting me quite a lot as I just could not for the life of me figure out WTF I was missing.

I was missing the DLL! lol

[Shunyaku]

I have literally purchased the supporter edition upgrade just now solely as a thanks for the help <3