To cheat, or not to cheat?

When you play Arcanum, do you cheat? If so, how often, and how blatantly?

My current run-through, I'm reprising my role as the female elf Everything Compatable With Technology character. Needless to say, this has involved a considerable amount of cheating.

Essentially what I did was I used the ArcanumEdit program to keep giving my character 50 character points, spending them until I had high firearms/pick lock/pickpocket/spot traps/disarm traps/persuasion, every learnable schematic in the game, and maxxed stats. Then I simply raised everything else with character points.

And further, I cheat by using the program to "transmute" schematics. Every time I find a dupe schematic, I change it in the editor, and re-learn it.


How do you guys roll?

 

Editing my character's age to be consistent with the game...

 

Playing with the Dark Helm, and stealing lots of money from Ristezze to buy Arcane things.

 

I use the break level cap hack, so when I kill stuff late in the game (Kerghan's Castle), then I just keep levelling up.

156 CP is way more then I'll ever want/need.

 

I abused the Dark Helm a bit to give Virgil, Geoffrey and my half ogre much higher magickal aptitude. And I reload whenever I damn well please. But I think that's as far as I'll go.

 

If there's a schematic I really want/need, but can't find it anywhere, I'll edit my learned schematics to turn one that I never use into one that I really want. If I end up needing the old schematic, I normally keep one or two copies of the same schematic in my inventory at all times.

 

I don't cheat the way you describe, but in my current game I AM cheating by changing the .dlg and .scr codes to make Swyft my permanent free follower.