_______________________________________________________________________________ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ S I D M E I E R ' S ___ ___ __ ___ __ __ __ ____ ___ ______ __ ___ __ __ // // \\ || // \\ ||\ || || // // \\ | || | || // \\ ||\ || (( (( )) || (( )) ||\\|| || // ||=|| || || (( )) ||\\|| \\__ \\_// ||__| \\_// || \|| || //__ || || || || \\_// || \|| _______________________________________________________________________________ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Your Guide to Cheating at Colonization January 17, 2005 Version 1.61 Written by: Dan Simpson Email: dsimpson.faqs@gmail.com If emailing me, use this subject: Colonization Cheat v 1.61 (Emails that don't use this subject will be deleted, avoid using all CAPS) Email Policy: (read before emailing me!) ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ If you see any mistakes, or have anything that you want to add please email me! I will, of course, give you full credit for your addition, and be eternally grateful to you. Email addresses are not posted in the FAQ, unless you specifically state that you want it to be. Notes ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The most recent version of this FAQ can be found at: http://www.gamefaqs.com/ I've known about these cheats almost as long as the game has been out. Yet when I looked around the internet for them, I was unable to get all but the basics. So here it is, the best Cheat Guide there is (that I know about anyway) for Colonization! If you are a webmaster and wish to post this on your web page, please email me first. And if you do post this FAQ on your site, please make an attempt to keep it up to date. There is nothing worse than getting emails from people who saw an old version asking about things that are already in the newer versions. Well, maybe there are worse things, but it IS annoying! There is an update to Colonization if you don't already have it: ftp://www.microprose.com/pub/mps-online/new-versions/colv30.zip This FAQ looks best in Courier New at about 9 points. This Document is Copyright 1999-2005 by Dan Simpson Colonization is Copyright by MicroProse I am not affiliated with MicroProse, Sid Meier, or anyone who had anything to do with the creation of this game. This FAQ may be posted on any site so long as NOTHING IS CHANGED and you EMAIL ME telling me that you are posting it. You may not charge for, or in any way profit from this FAQ. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________ What's New in 1.61: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Changed the email address and updated the format a bit. For a complete Version History, check out the Final Words Section at the end of the FAQ. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cheat Method #1, The In Game Cheat Commands at the Colony Screen At the European Screen At Map Screen Other Map Cheats in the Cheat Menu: Not a Cheat, but... Cheat Method #2, Edit Game from Without: Final Words... =============================================================================== Cheat Method #1, The In Game Cheat: =============================================================================== Press the following to activate the Cheat Mode: ALT- W I N That is, press and hold ALT, then press W, I, and N. (They don't need to be capitalized) Press the following to De-activate the Cheat Mode: ALT-W Commands at the Colony Screen: ------------------------------ ! - Build all Buildings in colony (don't be concerned when your Town Hall seemingly vanishes, it's still there!) $ - Get $1000 % (when a cargo is selected) - get 100 of the cargo @ - Does some really weird things to your Town Hall (makes it vanish!) S (when colonist selected) - colonist becomes an expert at what he was currently doing Note: If you put a colonist on a schoolhouse/college/university and press 'S' he will become an Expert Teacher, something which was removed from the game! By the way... if you take him off of the college and try to put him back on the college, you won't be able to... he has no skills! T - Create new colonist Warning: Don't create more than 31 in a colony, as that causes the game to hang indefinitely. SPACE - the colony will reap the benefits of a whole turn, without any time passing at all Trick: I'm not quite sure how this works or why, but it sometimes does. What happens is that you will somehow (with the cheat mode activated of course) get colonists to work "offscreen". That is, you can't find them in the colony, or out in the field, yet they manage to bring in resources. Strange! It doesn't work in all colonies, but it did work in quite a few. Here's How to do it: - Create a new colonist with the 'T' command until all the field slots are taken. - If at any time you create a colonist, and you cannot find him either on the map or in the colony then you have succeeded! If not, keep trying, but don't exceed the 31 colonist rule. To find these new invisible colonists, use the colonist listing at the lower left portion of the screen, and just move the arrows left or right until you find a colonist who doesn't show up either in the colony or on the map. May as well press 'S' and make him an expert! If you want to change what he is doing, hit enter while the box is over him to get the listing. My theory on this is that this is remnant of what the game was like in its early stage of development. I think that as your colony grew, its colony radius expanded outward to match, but they decided to remove this feature leaving only this remnant behind. At the European Screen: ----------------------- $ - Get $1000 in gold [ - Lower the tax rate by 1% ] - Raise the tax rate by 1% At Map Screen: -------------- For any of the following F keys to work, you must use SHIFT, like SHIFT F12. F1 - Create Colonist You can create: Colonists Pioneers Militia Missionary Scout Artillery Wagon Train __ Treasure | Caravel Ship ------------------------' Merchantman Indian Braves Galleon Indian Armed Braves Privateer Indian Horse Frigate Indian Armed Horse Man-O-War Foreign Unit When you declare independence, in place of the Indian Units are: Cont. Militia Cont. Cavalry Tory Militia Tory Cavalry F2 - Debug Info Flags This shows you some other neat information on the map screen, like the amount that any tribe hates you. F4 - Reveal Map Choose which map you want to see. To go back to the normal map, select "No Special View" F5 - Set Human Player F6 - Kill Indians F7 - Advance Revolution Status First time you do this, the War of Spanish Succession ends, and one country leaves the new world, do it again and you declare independence! F8 - Show Strategy F9 - Show Colony Sites Shows where it would be good to build colonies. The higher the number, the better! F10 Test Routine Trick: Here's something to try. With the cheat code activated, do a reveal map, and choose either "Complete Map" or the map of one of your enemies. Then click on an enemy city. You are now looking into their city, and you can change anything you want, as though it was your own city! You could either help them (yeah, right) or you could delete their military units, and remove the skills from all their units. Of course, you could just disband the whole town... (see below, "Disbanding Anything") Other Map Cheats in the Cheat Menu: ----------------------------------- Sound Test Memory Check Other Map Cheats not mentioned in the Cheat Menu: ------------------------------------------------- Disbanding Anything: - Do the view thing (press 'V') so that the flashing box appears. - Put that box over the thing that you wish to destroy - Press SHIFT-D, and it is gone! When disbanding a colony, you must disband all the units guarding it, or who are just outside of it first. You can disband ANYTHING, including native villages, and other European towns. In this fashion you could finally disband that annoying city with a stockade that you couldn't get rid of before. However, this is most useful in getting rid of native villages without taking the point reduction in your final score. Not a Cheat, But... ------------------- This is just a little trick to try if you are ever unsatisfied with the list of Founding Fathers that the game gives you to choose from. Just hit ESC to bring up a new list. And sometimes, you'll get some different (better) Founding Fathers. =============================================================================== Cheat Method #2, Edit Game from Without: =============================================================================== The second method involves some monkeying around in text files. If you are going to edit any/all of these, you really should back up these files first. The following is a list of all the text files in the COLONIZE Directory, and a brief description of what is inside: readme.txt* autoexec.txt* closing.txt -- contains info on the closing animation colony.txt -- has the names of all the colonies for the 4 nations config.txt* debug.txt -- contains MOTD plus the menu information for the cheat menu game.txt -- containts all the messages plus the menus as well labels.txt -- has the labels of the game, which is pretty much every word used by the game! memory.txt* memory2.txt* menu.txt -- containts nothing but game menus names.txt -- discussed in depth below... opening.txt -- the opening information, what it says and how it animates pedia.txt -- has ALL the Encyclopedia information tribe.txt -- only used on America maps, for historical purposes woodcut.txt -- has the Picture Messages (Creating a Colony, Discovering the Pacific, etc.) * - nothing editable here The names.txt has the best information in that it effects what you want it to effect, the land, units, etc. Editing it isn't so hard, merely look for what you want to change (terrain, units) and look at its "Key" which is usually above the information. Here is a small sample: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ; ; Buildings in Colonies ; ; name, cost, tools(*10), size, min_colony, upkeep ; ; (Cost guidelines: If <= 52, should be divisible by 13. Otherwise, ; should be divisible by 8). ; @BUILDING Stockade, 64, 0, 3, 3, 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- from NAMES.TXT -- The key tells you what corresponds to what. In this case name=Stockade, cost=64, etc. To change the cost to say... 13, you would replace the 64 with a 13. If there is a note like "Cost guidelines" be sure to follow it! If you changed it and saved it, the next time you play, a stockade will cost only 13 hammer units rather than 64! Cool! =============================================================================== Final Words... =============================================================================== Some information is from the Colonization Code page at GameSages: http://sages.ign.com/codes/14/6732.html ASCII Art created using SigZag by James Dill: (freeware!) http://www.geocities.com/southbeach/marina/4942/sigzag.htm _________________________ Shameless Self Promotion: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ I am Dan Simpson (dsimpson.faqs@gmail.com) and have also written FAQs for: NES: Disney Adventures in the Magic Kingdom Final Fantasy -- Magic FAQ The Legend of Zelda SNES: Aerobiz Aerobiz Supersonic Utopia: Creation of a Nation Genesis: StarFlight PSX: Thousand Arms -- Walkthrough -- Forging/Dating FAQ PS2: Madden NFL 2001 XBOX: Star Wars: KotOR II: The Sith Lords -- FAQ/Walkthrough -- Influence Guide PC: AD&D Rules FAQ, 2nd and 3rd Editions Baldur's Gate & Tales of the Sword Coast -- FAQ/Walkthrough NPC List Creature List Baldur's Gate II & Throne of Bhaal -- FAQ/Walkthrough -- Items List -- Class FAQ -- Creature List Civilization III (incomplete) Colonization -- the Single Colony Strategy Guide -- the Cheat Guide Drakan: Order of the Flame Dungeon Hack Icewind Dale & Heart of Winter -- FAQ/Walkthrough Items List Kresselack's Tomb Map (JPG) Burial Isle Map (JPG) Shattered Hand Map (JPG) Icewind Dale II -- Items List Master of Magic (revision) Messiah Pharaoh (currently being edited by Red Phoenix) Planescape: Torment -- FAQ/Walkthrough Items Listing Rollercoaster Tycoon Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri The Sims Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar Ultima 7: The Black Gate Ultima 7 Part 2: Serpent Isle Ultima Underworld -- Keyboard Commands Ultima Underworld II -- Keyboard Commands -- Spell List All of my FAQs can be found at: http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/recognition/2203.html ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ ________________ Version History: ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ Original Version (6-2-99, 7k) Changes in Version 1.1 (6-3-99, 8k) Added a new Trick Added RCT to Shameless Self-Promotion (don't know why it wasn't already there) Changes in Version 1.2 (8-3-99, 9k) Edited a few things Added Aerobiz Supersonic and Underworld 2 to the SSP Also added my web page link Changes in Version 1.3 (8-27-99, 10k) Added a new trick Updated the SSP Some small format changes Some other small changes Changes in Version 1.4 (2-29-00, 14k) Added a Table of Contents Small Changes Some Small Format Changes Changes in Version 1.41 (4-26-00, 15k) Updated the format Small changes Changes in Version 1.5 (5-2-00, 16k) Added the 'At the European Screen' cheats Also added the 'Not a cheat, but...' Other Small Changes Version 1.6 September 28, 2002 17k Updated the format a bit. Version 1.61 January 17, 2005 17k Changed the email address and updated the format a bit. _______________________________________________________________________________ ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ This Document is Copyright 1999-2005 by Dan Simpson Colonization is Copyright 1994 by MicroProse I am not affiliated with MicroProse, Sid Meier, or anyone who had anything to do with the creation of this game. This FAQ may be posted on any site so long as NOTHING IS CHANGED and you EMAIL ME telling me that you are posting it. You may not charge for, or in any way profit from this FAQ.