[Guide] How to edit your profile to have up to 127 god points.

[Zaharov]

The profile file is placed at
"samefolder were you installed the game, then go to Thea2_Data --> Profiles --> (here you see some gamefolders with numbers, open it and you get the save folder"

It is in binary format, so to edit it you will need so called hex-editor, like https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

1. SAVE A BACKUP COPY OF THE PROFILE FOLDER JUST IN CASE
2. Install the hex editor if you aren't got one, like HxD from link above
3. Open PlayerProfile.ppsav in editor
4. Navigate to the byte next to 4 24 value.
5. You will select position of int8 which is equal to number of god points you currently have. Check if number is correspond to what you've had.
6. Edit it, save it, load the game and enjoy!

p.s. If something went wrong just restore file from backup.

Here is trashy looking edit guide in picture https://imgur.com/PE1LdVy

[mvffinsandmilk]

I remember when I was a kid where people would call this a cheat but now they call them guides. Guess this is why adultery and divorce are not just legal but encouraged in our society.

[FriarBob]

Well it IS a cheat. But it's also single player. If you don't want to cheat in SP, don't do it. If you do, nobody except you should care.

If you affect others (i.e. MP) obviously that's a very different story.

[Gentlest Giant]

Originally posted by mvffinsandmilk:

I remember when I was a kid where people would call this a cheat but now they call them guides. Guess this is why adultery and divorce are not just legal but encouraged in our society.

God points have no right to exist to begin with. It's a travesty through and through. Finding solutions around it is just a way to make this game pass basic decent game design.

[Lumisteria]

You don't like god points and it's fine. You want solutions and the game provide multiple, since it's possible to mod it. (The solution in first post is one, but there are cleaner ways, like making all cards cost 0 pts, for example)
But maybe you can also consider that for some players god points may be a good purpose and reward, and accept that different ways to enjoy the game are as valid as yours.

[BlackBone]

Originally posted by Gentle Giant:

Originally posted by mvffinsandmilk:

I remember when I was a kid where people would call this a cheat but now they call them guides. Guess this is why adultery and divorce are not just legal but encouraged in our society.

God points have no right to exist to begin with. It's a travesty through and through. Finding solutions around it is just a way to make this game pass basic decent game design.

It is a rogue-like mechanic. One that some people might enjoy quite a bit. Personally I don't have strong feelings about it one way or another.

[Gentlest Giant]

Originally posted by Lumisteria:

But maybe you can also consider that for some players god points may be a good purpose and reward, and accept that different ways to enjoy the game are as valid as yours.

I assume this is a response to my vitriol; please note my aggressive tone was a response to an insult in the post quoted.

[XenoReaver]

Originally posted by Gentle Giant:

Originally posted by mvffinsandmilk:

I remember when I was a kid where people would call this a cheat but now they call them guides. Guess this is why adultery and divorce are not just legal but encouraged in our society.

God points have no right to exist to begin with. It's a travesty through and through. Finding solutions around it is just a way to make this game pass basic decent game design.

In what way are they a travesty? I honestly would like to know why you feel this way.

[Gentlest Giant]

Originally posted by XenoReaver:

In what way are they a travesty? I honestly would like to know why you feel this way.

2 main reasons.
1) I value my time spent on gaming quite highly and do not appreciate artificial barriers that limits the quality of that time spent. Content locked behind grind is a dilution of quality.
I am also very much aware that these "rewards" that you unlock is something game designers deliberately use to create a positive stimuli - something to motivate you to play more.
I do not get much of that positive stimuli, or maybe I do but it's diluted by the feeling of being disrespected. It feels that the game designers do not respect their own game in that they need this artificial stimuli and it's disrespectful to me in that they assume I would just accept it. Thea is a great game and it is a shame that they do not trust in its quality in replayability without this.

2) This is a carryover from my experience in multiplayer games and does not really apply to Thea -
Uneven playing fields. One player has played the game for 1 hour and the other for 100 hours. In games with grindable unlocks, the player with 100 hours will have a structural advantage to the player with 1 hour, even -before- taking experience and skill into account. This is outright unacceptable for competetive multiplayer. (I could talk about this one for hours but since it does not apply here I won't.)

Basically I carry a lot of vitriol for this kind of thing, mostly due to the general acceptance of it in multiplayer games, and that vitriol carries over to games I play single player.

[eddieballgame]

Interesting that the largest number allowed is 127.
btw; Options like this allow the user to enhance his/her single player experience per his/her choice.

[The Hat]

Originally posted by mvffinsandmilk:

I remember when I was a kid where people would call this a cheat but now they call them guides. Guess this is why adultery and divorce are not just legal but encouraged in our society.

No.

Divorce and editing digits in a video game have as much to do with each other as eating chips and walking on the moon.

[DNLH]

I just want to say that I like the God Points and at the very least prefer it over the way it was done in Awakening. I'm really enjoying the card traits themselves and the unlockables give a nice goal, they also make me go those couple of hundreds turns more in a finished playthrough, snooping around the world, which so far ended up worth it on its own, even without additional points of reward. Looking at what I want to unlock and what I already have unlocked made me come up with some fun (and less fun) scenarios for myself, too.

Basically, I see the high-end cards not as must-haves but as rewards for finishing the game, 'here's your OP elven druid, now have fun, kid'. As such I don't think they should be treated as mandatory, they're something like Nyia and Triglav that you get for job well done.

I agree, though, that there's nothing wrong with tailoring the game to your preferences, as long as it doesn't interfere with others' fun.

[eddieballgame]

A friend of mine & I like to compete for score to a certain number of moves.
Similar to a 'saved file' challenge. Having the option to apply a map seed would be nice for this.
Anyways, opening up more 'unlocks' just adds to the decision makings for our starting challenges.
This is not a bad thing.

[ShadowFox]

Mine does not look like yours, how do I easily find the god points to edit?

[tiamats4esgares]

Originally posted by Haplo:

Mine does not look like yours, how do I easily find the god points to edit?

You necro'd a nearly 14 month old thread in a game that has changed a lot in those 14 months, so it's very likely different now. However, there's a way to easily cause the very first quest you get to win you the game AND reveal the entire map, thus giving you a ton of points. Watch this video for a very well-explained and straight-to-the-point guide:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wZc3wdyXcE

Kudos to the man who made this video. I use this a lot!

Originally posted by The Hat:

Originally posted by mvffinsandmilk:

I remember when I was a kid where people would call this a cheat but now they call them guides. Guess this is why adultery and divorce are not just legal but encouraged in our society.

No.

Divorce and editing digits in a video game have as much to do with each other as eating chips and walking on the moon.

I can't believe Americans went to the moon in 1960 -- no wonder they eat so many chips these days!

Originally posted by DNLH:

I see the high-end cards not as must-haves but as rewards for finishing the game, 'here's your OP elven druid, now have fun, kid'. As such I don't think they should be treated as mandatory, they're something like Nyia and Triglav that you get for job well done.

I actually never thought of it this way before. I, like Gentle Giant, was frustrated with the way the game was set up and just wanted those points. I've never beat the game without Triglav, even, let alone some of those advanced options. Maybe I should give it a try; it's an interesting challenge to give myself, if nothing else.

Let me say one thing that I do thing is dumb, however, is that 2 gods are randomly unlocked. Why not all? Or at the very least, why not let us pick which ones?

With that said, if I were to play without unlockables, do you think it would be OK to play as Mokosh? Or in other words....is Mokosh possible to be unlocked from the start on new profiles?

[XenoReaver]

Originally posted by tiamats4esgares:

is Mokosh possible to be unlocked from the start on new profiles?

Yes she can be.