Tried to cheat, with rather strange results.

[RealEdge69Hehe]

After having finished the game a few times, I decided to just cheat and ♥♥♥♥ some ♥♥♥♥♥ up with the game, using a trainer and cheat engine.

First and foremost, I gave myself an infinite budget and gave the maximum possible ammount of money (9990, I believe) to everything in the finance ministry.

The result? In one month, the ecology collapsed, apparently russian doctors went back to herb medicine because it is stuck at 0 (Couldn't ever get it back up), the industry is destroyed, nobody wants to join the army, intellectuals hate me, mind liberalization is stuck at 100 (Legalizing them gives them 99% of the seats), corruption is ridiculously high (Even after cutting down all the envelopes), and in general everything sucks with the exception of science.

Of course, it was cheating, so a normal player won't ever see this stuff, but it did struck me as odd that giving a ridiculous ammount of money to everything utterly destroyed the USSR. Do with these results what you will; And remember, cheaters aren't winners!

[Maxi]

that always breaks the game, the only way to cheat to not break the game is to give yourself an enormous gold reserve in the reasury so you never have economic difficulties.

[RealEdge69Hehe]

Yeah, I kinda managed to save the USSR through doing that and lowering the budget for everything down to more rational numbers. Lost the election later, though. Apparently, nobody loved me. Then the game crashed.

[DasMudPie]

I think there's a way to explain this with the current game mechanics:

A sudden rise in various industrial, agricultural and military projects leads to the total destruction of the environment.

Since the USSR is now importing an ENORMOUS amount of foreign textbooks and magazines, Pravda is now nothing more than toilet paper and the Soviet people's mind is being rapidly corrupted by Western propaganda.

Being supported by the corrupted masses, the intellectuals will now openly demand reforms, knowing the whole country is now on their side.

Importing MANY high quality foreign goods leads to the total destruction of native industrial, agricultural and pharmaceutical activities since their products can't compete with HIGHLY subsidized foreign goods.

With maximum funding for everything, "state mechanism" can't possibly be high enough to oversee all the economic activities in the USSR. Corruption grows out of hand due to lack of oversight by the bureaucracy and nothing gets done because the officials' activities aren't being properly monitored, leading to the collapse of the Soviet economy.

[RealEdge69Hehe]

Huh. That's curious. I would've imagined that the other budgets (Like propaganda, medical technology, computing tech, etc..) would cancel that stuff out, but I guess it makes sense.

EDIT: I still don't understand why nobody joined the army. The army numbers was stuck at 2, ocasionally moving up to three but never higher than four.

[Potman]

I just didn't invest into civil stuff, only technology and arms, and the rest of the money went into my reserve.

[DasMudPie]

Originally posted by RealEdge69Hehe:

Huh. That's curious. I would've imagined that the other budgets (Like propaganda, medical technology, computing tech, etc..) would cancel that stuff out, but I guess it makes sense.

EDIT: I still don't understand why nobody joined the army. The army numbers was stuck at 2, ocasionally moving up to three but never higher than four.

Funding for "state mechanism" should ALWAYS be higher than everything else. I played many games after the year 2000 and, in many instances, I gave it a funding of 600 while the next highest sector had only a funding of 400 to keep corruption in check. It is possible to overwhelm the game's anti-corruption / anti-liberalization / anti-pollution measures by overfunding everything else.

EDIT: Maybe it's because you adopted the right branch of military technology or have one of the bottom conscription policy? Or maybe it's because you sent military aid too often?

['Lov]

which cheat engine did you use? i've been hoping to mess around with cheats, but i don't trust any of the downloads. if you could provide a link to the engine you used i'd be very thankful

[Maxi]

Cheat engine should only be downloaded off its main website, and nowhere else.

['Lov]

Originally posted by Chiibo:

Cheat engine should only be downloaded off its main website, and nowhere else.

could you send a link?

[Maxi]

cheatengine.org

['Lov]

Originally posted by Chiibo:

cheatengine.org

thanks