Galactic Civ. 2 Cheats

Keyboard Shortcuts and Cheats for one of the best strategy turn based games I have ever played.

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Cheats

First to enable cheats you must run galactic civ 2 with the cheat parameter. Simply right click in library and go to launch options, add the word cheat and save it, now start up the game and have fun!

Add 10,000 BC [Ctrl] + M
Add Battleship [Ctrl] + B
Assigns Remaining Planets to Cajor Races [Ctrl] + L
Change Alignment [Ctrl] + [Shift] + M
Clone Selected Ship [Ctrl] + C
Complete Other Race's Projects [Ctrl] + [Shift] + J
Complete Social Projects [Ctrl] + J
Hail Major Races [Ctrl] + 0-9
Hail Yourself [Ctrl] + [Shift] + T
Heal Selected Ship [Ctrl] + H
Improves selected planet quality. [Ctrl] + P
Quarterly Report [Ctrl] + [Shift] + X
Random Event [CTRL] + Y
Research All Technology [Shift] + [Ctrl] + R
Research Selected Technology [CTRL] + R
Restart on New Map With New Race [Ctrl] + N
Spawn A Minor Race [Ctrl] + [Shift] + D
Spawn Different Star Bases [Ctrl] + [Shift] + B
Teleport Selected Ship to Pointer [Ctrl] + T
United Planets Meeting [Ctrl] + V
Upgrade Selected Ship [Ctrl] + A

[ShadowDragon_79]

... oh, I forgot - there's also [Ctrl]-U to <u>nveil the map. So if you want to do a hotseat-match *without* exploration/FogOfWar, then that's fully possible.


And also, if you use the Ctrl-Shift-Z command mentioned below, but without Ctrl-U, then switching to another Civ will unveil (parts of?) that Civs' territory...
So, hotseat *with* FoW sadly isn't an option here. :-/

[ShadowDragon_79]

Obviously, this isn't *quite* suited for a real hotseat-match - at least with fogOfWar - since then everyone but player #1 won't be able to control 'their' species in the early stages (before player #1 discovers them on the map) .

Would really have been nice if this 'cheat' would instead open a list of the species in the current match, so it could be used from Turn 1 already...

[ShadowDragon_79]

... so I looked it up in the GC2-forums some weeks ago.

The hotseat-cheat is '[Ctrl]-[Shift]-Z' .
Used it quite a bit since then, and it works fine (Sometimes you might need to press it twice, or maybe I didn't press it correctly the first time...)

Usage :
0) set the cheat-launchoption as mentioned in the guide
1) select a ship or planet belonging to the species you want to switch to/take control of
2) while keeping that selected, press '[Ctrl]-[Shift]-Z'
3) to make sure it worked, either go to the planets-tab of the civ-manager-screen, or to the shipyard - both should now show the planets/shipdesign of the species you wanted to switch to
4) Done.

[ShadowDragon_79]

From what I remember, there's also a 'hotseat'-cheat ( also mentioned here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/202200/discussions/0/350532536096348567/ ),
but I don't remember the key-combination for it...

As stated in the linked post, you need to find a ship of another specie, select it and then press the related keys - and then you'll be controlling that species instead of your initial one.
(the 'cheat'-parameter should also required for this to work...)

I think there was a problem to this though... the map's 'explored' regions would still stay in the state of what your initial species had explored...


Does somebody remember the necessary keys for this 'fake MP' ?

[evanfscott]

I mean all planets in every solar system on entire map

[evanfscott]

what is code for making ALL planets in solar system habitable? I've done it several times by accident and can't replicate.

[XGN_Draco_Vamri]

I can't get half of those cheats to function. Only the frame rate & save cheat work.

[Aranwen1]

ok so lets assume i followed the instructions and it didnt work. is there a plan b?

[Cocoanut]

Oh no... I've seen it... now i cannot un see it, Time to cheat!

[Satan Himself]

Right click galactic civ in your library, go to properties, then general tab, and LAUNCH OPTIONS, set the launch parameter as "cheat" without the ''s save and launch the game.