Rise of Nations: Gold Edition
Codes
Cheat Keys
During game play, press ENTER to bring up the Chat bar. Type in "cheat keys on" to activate the functions listed below.
Code Effect Alt+F5 +1,000 to all resources Alt+F9 Speeds up selected research/building/unit in progress Contributed By: Mikaa.
Cheat Mode
Press [Enter] to input codes:
Code Effect cheat bird Creates a bird where your cursor is cheat die Kills anything selected cheat safe 10 Submachine gunners are created cheat age research cancel tour age researches cheat military research cancel your civic researches cheat civic research cancel your civic researches cheat commerce research cancel your commerce researches cheat science research cancel your science researches cheat sandbox Control all players cheat finish Finishes what you are building cheat nuke Nukes where your cursor is cheat reveal Reveals the whole map Contributed By: TeishuKyokai, Kblopes, and vegetarian_onos.
Rise of Nations Cheats
Codes
Cheats
Hit ENTER and type in a code below
Code Effect cheat deploy Deploys the currently selected unit(s), if they are deploying units cheat damage (damage(o[,who]|select)[+|-]damage ) Adjust damage to object cheat explore (explore[normal|explored|all]) Change game explore config cheat safe Creates a lot of machine guns around every human capital cheat defeat (who) Defeat nation cheat achieve Display achievements cheat nuke Drop a Nuke at mouse position cheat bird Drop a Wild Bird at Mouse cheat finish (finish) Finishes selected building(s) or next item in queue cheat ally (who) Force alliance with nation cheat meet (who) Force encounter with nation cheat unmeet (who) Force encounter-off with nation cheat peace (who) Force peace with nation cheat war (who) Force war with nation cheat resource (resource[who][goodtype|all][+/-][amount]) Give/take away resources cheat add (add[#]typename[who=RED][x,y]) Insert unit or building at mouse loc cheat insert (insert[#]typename[who=RED][x,y]) Insert unit or building at mouse loc cheat die (die[o[,who]|select]) Kill object or all selected cheat age ([age]who) move to certain age cheat pack Packs the currently selected unit(s), if they are packing units cheat pause (0-1) Pause Game cheat sandbox Sets all players to human cheat diff (0-5) Sets difficulty cheat ai (on/off/debug) Sets the AI cheat ranges (1|0) Show combat ranges cheat age (age[age][who]) Show or change age cheat library (library[level][who]) Show or change all library tech levels for nation cheat civic (civic[level][who]) Show or change civic level for nation cheat commerce (commerce[level][who]) Show or change commerce level for nation cheat military (military[level][who]) Show or change military cheat military (military[level][who]) Show or change military level for nation cheat science (science[level][who]) Show or change science level for nation cheat tech (who)[tech|all](on/off) Show or change technology cheat bbox (1|0) Toggle bounding box mode cheat reveal (reveal[1|0]) Toggle reveal map cheat human (who) Turn off computer control cheat computer (who) Turn on computer control cheat victory (who) Victory for nation Contributed By: balder.
Faster Research and More Resources
When you're playing a quick battle or a campaign, press enter to bring up the chat and type in: cheat keys on. Then press enter. No dialog box should come up. Now just press the following buttons to get exactly what you want.
Code Effect Alt+F5 +1000 to each resource Alt+F9 speeds up creation on selected building Contributed By: Yengeon.
Secrets
Editing units
Doing this can allow you to change stats of units.
First find your rise of nations folder. then go to the ''data'' folder. Find the file called ''unitrules''. right-click on it and go to properties. be sure to select only archive and disable read-only. open this document using preferable mircosoft word. Then be sure to read the information. Next you can edit any unit. Be sure not to change the names of the units this can cause errorsContributed By: Makotech222.
Increase population limit
PART I -- Find your Rise Of Nations folder in your Microsoft games directory in the program files folder in your C drive. Go into the data folder, and look for rules.xml, right-click the file and select open in notepad. Press Ctrl+F, and type in <POP_CAP> to search for it. From here you can edit the desired population limit entries in quotation marks. Also, search for and edit <MAX_POP_LIMIT> value and type in the same number that you entered for the last entry in the pop cap field.
PART II -- Then press Ctrl+F, and search poplimits. Edit each category to the desired population cap you would like. Then type in the desired population limits in the data brackets under each category.
For example, the end result would be:
<POP_CAP entry0=''2500'' entry1=''5000'' entry2=''7500'' entry3=''10000'' entry4=''12500'' entry5=''15000'' entry6=''17500'' entry7=''90000 pop cap''/>
then,
<MAX_POP_LIMIT value=''90000 pop cap''/>
then,
<CATEGORIES id=''poplimits'' title=''Population:''>
<CATEGORY name=''5000''>
<DATA>5000 </DATA>Contributed By: The New Blueguy.
Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends Cheats
Codes
Faster Research and More Resources
When you're playing a quick battle or a campaign, press enter to bring up the chat and type in: cheat keys on. Then press enter. No dialog box should come up. Now just press the following buttons to get exactly what you want.
Code Effect Alt+F5 +1000 to each resource Alt + F10 Refills a selected unit's mana. Also recharges that unit's abilities. Can only be used on one unit at a time. Alt + F11 Refills a unit's health. Can only be used on one unit at a time. Alt+F9 speeds up unit creation, building creation, and research. General Cheats
Start Typing.
Then put in one of the codes below
Code Effect /cheat mana (who-hero name) (+/-)number adds mana to the hero /cheat resource (who) (what) (+/-)number adds resources /cheat safe adds some Juggernauts and Air Destroyers around your capital (race does not matter) /cheat explore (normal/explored/all) changes explore configurations /cheat damage (+/-) (number) Changes the amount of damage on selected units or buildings /cheat finish finishes the selected building (can be used for units if building is making units) /cheat mapgen generates a new map /cheat dominance (which) (who gives the desired dominance /cheat add (number) (what) his adds a unit or a building to the locattion you are pointing with the mouse /cheat die Kills selected units or buildings /cheat tech (who) tech (on/off) researches all tech /cheat reveal reveals the map /cheat (ally,peace,war) (who) this forces peace, an alliance, or war with a player /cheat victory win the mission Contributed By: jfhkdjfhkd and jdt532.
List of force added Special units
These are found by pressing enter and typing:/cheat add #(number of that unit) and the type of unit. An example is /cheat add 15 imperial musketeer.
You get 15 groups of musketeers. Make sure you don't use plural words for this cheat and no capitalization(like shok). These are forced added units I found that can make your game lag if you put too much units.Code Effect /cheat add (#) giant Creates a Queen Spider. /cheat add (#) zeke Creates a scout form zeke. /cheat add (#) great Creates sun idol. /cheat add(#) zeke (attack form) or (siege form) Creates the form that you entered. /cheat add (#) queen spider For some reason it makes a queen Salamander. doges hammer gives you a doges hammer mega glass golem gives you a elder glass golem elder gives you a elder salamander false idol gives you a false idol master fire golem gives you a fire golem lava gives you a lava spider super gives you a super clock work man super jugger gives you a super jugernaut turrets gives you a turrets sawu gives you another sawu hero dark gives you the standard dark alin troops /cheat add (#) siege Makes a siege zepplin. /cheat add (#) pirata Makes a useless pirata base ship. Contributed By: noobhunter634 and kie6921.
Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots Cheats
Codes
Faster research & building and free bonus resources
When you're playing a quick battle or a campaign, press enter to bring up the chat and type in "cheat keys on" (without the quotes) and press enter. No dialogue should come up. Now just press the following buttons to get exactly what you want.
Code Effect ALT + F5 Gain 1000 of each type of resource ALT + F9 This either complete finishes the research, building, or unit creation or gives you a significant boost towards creating/researching the selected unit Contributed By: Fiel.
Passwords
In-Game Codes
You can enter these codes by pressing the Enter key in-game. To make sure the codes work, substitute the bracketed area with the item you want to replace it with. For example, with "cheat diff [0-5]", if you wanted it at its hardest setting, you change it to "cheat diff 5".
Password Effect cheat diff [0-5] Change Difficulty cheat bird Create Bird at Pointer cheat defeat [name] Defeat Player cheat die Destroy Selected Unit/Building ffwd #(minutes) Fast forwards the game time by however many minutes you entered cheat finish Finish Selected Building or Item in Queue cheat safe Get Heavy Machine Gun Infantry cheat resource all+[#] Get Resources cheat library [#] Get Technology Level cheat nuke Nuke at Pointer cheat reveal [0 or 1] Reveal Map cheat sandbox Reveal Map and Control All Players cheat victory [name] Victory for Player Contributed By: eggman n3 and vegetarian_onos.
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