Cheat Codes:
Activate the following cheats by pressing [Enter] to display the chat window and typing the corresponding codes:
CHEAT FUNCTION – CHEAT CODE
1000 gold – robin hood
1000 wood – lumberjack
1000 stone – rock on
1000 food – cheese steak jimmy’s
Instant victory – i r winner
Instant loss – resign
Fast building – aegis
Full map – marco
Kill indicated opponent – torpedo[number]
Kill all opponents – black death
No shadows – polo
Control animals – natural wonders
VDML – i love the monkey head
Cobra car – how do you turn this on
Saboteur – to smithereens
Commit suicide – wimpywimpywimpy
Activate the following cheats by pressing the corresponding key combinations during gameplay:
CHEAT FUNCTION – KEY COMBINATION
Fast construction – [Ctrl] Q
Build immutable structure – [Ctrl] P
Alternate resource menu – [Ctrl] T
View ending sequence – [Ctrl] C
Activate the following cheats by starting the game with the corresponding command line parameters:
CHEAT FUNCTION – COMMAND LINE PARAMETER
800 x 600 screen resolution – 800
1024 x 768 screen resolution – 1024
1280 x 1024 screen resolution – 1280
Auto save game – autompsave
Standard mouse pointer – NormalMouse
Fix display problems with some video cards – Mfill
Fix SoundBlaster AWE freezes – Msync
Disable all terrain sounds – NoTerrainSound
Disable all music – NoMusic
Disable all sounds except during FMV sequences – NoSound
No pre-game FMV sequences – NoStartup
Cheat Codes (Japanese version):
Activate the following cheats by pressing [Enter] to display the chat window and typing the corresponding codes:
CHEAT FUNCTION – CHEAT CODE
1000 gold – coinage
1000 wood – woodstock
1000 stone – quarry
1000 food – pepperoni pizza
Instant building – steroids
Full map – reveal map
Control animals – gaia
No fog of war – no fog
Phrases:
Press [Enter] during game play, then type a number from 1 to 30 and press [Enter] again to hear various phrases such as “Don’t point that thing at me”.
Fast resources:
Use the following trick to rapidly enter the cheat codes and get resources quickly. For wood, press [Enter], type woodstock, press [Shift] [Home] to highlight the word, then press [Ctrl] C to copy it. Press [Enter] to activate the cheat. Press [Enter] again, then press [Ctrl] V to or [Shift] [Insert] paste the word on the screen for activation. Repeat to get resources quickly. This may be used with the quarry, coinage, pepperoni pizza, and photon man codes.
When you do a random map, use a team islands setting and have seven players. Make three of them your allies, and four enemies. Start the game and go to the third button from the top right corner. Put check marks next to all your allies and click on “Food Please”, “Wood Please”, “Stone Please” or “Gold Please” in the box below. The only resource your allies will not give you is gold.
More bases advantage:
To have a better chance of winning, you might want to build more than one base. Enlarge the base you start out with, making it completely fortified with at least two castles. Then, send a scout cavalry, or some other fast moving unit, to the opposite side of the map from your base. After you have checked the area and confirmed that it is safe, send a villager to build a castle at that location and fortify that base. This is very helpful if your enemy knows where one of your bases are located, especially during online play.
Free ally:
When you build a market, there is a chance that a rival tribe will ask you to send them a certain amount of wood, stone, gold, and food. When they do, click on “Diplomacy” or press [Alt] D and click “Ally” on the name of that tribe. They will become an ally free of charge. However, when you do this you will no longer be able to align yourself with any other tribes. This is helpful if there are four tribes in the game.