Cheat population and timer?

[Future Doctor]

How do you change value for engineers and workers? Has anyone with cheat engine successfully tried it? I want to cheat in more engineers and workers because there's never enough readily on hand to man the buildings or make scouts.

I'm able to use cheat engine to successfully change the value of wood, steel, raw food, and even steam cores but when I try to change any value of worker, engineer or overall population (93/(113)) -> (180/(200)) using cheat engine it looks like it works and when the game is unpaused it crashes to desktop. Did anyone successfully used cheat engine to change the population or is there any way to get more people quickly?

Also, waiting on the next policy in Book of Laws takes too long? Can you use cheat engine to exhaust the timer so you can select another policy quickly?

[Bobywan]

Not fun to cheat in this game.

[DuckieMcduck]

I don't think you can just "increase" population like that because each person is actually "a person" that gets generated and tracked in the game. If there's a number but no person it will probably point somewhere that doesn't exist and crash.

[nut]

I am absolutely terrible with cheat engine, how did you go about editing resource values?

[EleventhStar]

maybe see if it's possible to trigger an event that gives population. or reset exploration in frostland.

why don't you just play on easy if what you are looking for is just a builder sim? though not that i think the game is particularly good at that seeing the rahter limited building space available.