Cheats and keyboard shortcuts
From the Galactic Civilizations Wiki
You can enable cheats by creating a shortcut to GalCiv2.exe and use that to start the game.
- Use Windows Explorer to find GalCiv2.exe, or right-click the game in Stardock Central and select Open Folder
- Right click on GalCiv2.exe (not GC2Launch.exe) and choose create shortcut
- Right click on the shortcut and choose properties
- Click in the target field and hit end, then hit space followed by the word CHEAT (no switch marks necessary)
For example:
"C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\galciv2.exe" cheat
For Dark Avatar, the shortcut should be:
"C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\DarkAvatar\GC2DarkAvatar.exe" cheat
For Twilight of the Arnor:
"C:\Program Files\Stardock\TotalGaming\GalCiv2\Twilight\GC2TwilightOfTheArnor.exe" cheat
The cheats can then be enabled in game by pressing control and one of the key listed below. For example, pressing control and m at the same time will add 10,000 bc to the treasury. Some of these combinations, such as Ctrl+N, are not technically cheats and so do not require the procedure above to enable them.
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[edit] Cheats
[edit] Ctrl +
- A - Upgrades selected ship's quality, hp, and movement
- B - Adds battleship
- C - Clones selected ship (does not work on starbases, and may result in crash to desktop as of 1.1)
- H - Heals selected ship
- I - Shows selected ship info
- J - Completes the next planetary improvement or military project in the build queue of every world in your civilization
- L - Assigns remaining planets to major races
- M - Adds 10,000bc
- P - Adds 1 to planet class — does not add terraformed squares to colonized planets; instead, destroy the colony, run cheat, re-colonize.
- R - Research current tech (Hold Shift for ALL techs)
- T - Teleports selected ship to cursor
- U - Reveals the entire map
- V - United Planets meeting
- W - Selected race loses next turn (If none is selected you lose)
- Y - Create a Mega Event
[edit] Ctrl + Shift +
- B - Spawns different starbases, including mining starbases
- D - Adds a minor race to the galaxy
- E - Triggers all planetary events
- H - Damages selected ship
- J - Completes other races' projects
- M - Triggers the Alignment Selection Screen - Still costs money [ Also gives you all techs except Miniaturization and Technology Victory ]
- P - Increases the Planet quality of all uninhabitable planets to PQ 10.
- R - Research ALL technologies
- T - Hail yourself
- V - Force vote for political party
- X - Quarterly Reports
- Z - Enables autoplay/Quasi-Hot Seat Game (the AI takes turns without waiting for the user)
- W - Selected ENEMY SHIP or PLANET will turn into your unit or base.
Note: Metaverse games played with cheat codes will not be counted.
[edit] Keyboard Shortcuts
[edit] Ctrl +
- 0-9(NOT on Num Pad)- Hails major races
- F - Shows framerate
- G - Enables/Disables Grid
- N - Restart on a new map with new race
- S - Saves (Quick Save)
